Globally, at least 100 cities have done the same with privatised water services over the past 15 years, including dozens of municipalities in France – once seen as a growing focus for water privatisation.
Climate resiliency is a growing focus for many towns and cities that fret about expensive clean-up costs from disasters, shading people from the heat or dealing with an eroding tax base should residents decide to uproot and head somewhere safer.
Resilience has become growing focus for employers.
Nevertheless, it's a growing focus for traditional financial companies and fintechs alike.
It's not over bus sharing, either, though that, too, is a growing focus for investors and automotive companies that are desperate to understand how cities and transportation are changing.
Crime was also a growing focus for national newscasts and morning network shows between 2007 and 2012 but has become less common on local television news during roughly the same period.
These ongoing disparities represent a major public policy concern, and a growing focus for science and human rights organizations.
Zahidi also believes a growing focus on the need for "caring" professions will put a premium on wages in those sectors, where women are dominant.
The growing focus on the need for interdisciplinary research has made it imperative that nursing scientists collaborate with colleagues in other health-related fields including medicine, public health, dentistry, and social work.
"There is rapidly growing focus on such important topics, for example see the website for the new Leverhulme centre for the future of intelligence in Cambridge," he notes.
Hence the growing focus on Miami's chief lobbyist for building support for its bid, Jorge Arrizurieta, a former business associate of H. Wayne Huizenga, the founder of Blockbuster, former owner of the Florida Marlins baseball team and Bush administration appointee at the Inter-American Development Bank.
