Sentence examples for impediment to development from inspiring English sources

Although a lack of infrastructure is often viewed as an impediment to development, what we are finding is that, because many developing nations are not saddled with an aging electrical grid, they can potentially "leapfrog" into a Third Industrial Revolution.

This energy deficit is also an impediment to development.

"So in my mind, the distance from Manhattan isn't the impediment to development".

The major impediment to development is the lack of potable water.

And its news not only about a social injustice but also about an economic impediment to development.

Then again, if grandiosity were an impediment to development in New York, there would be no Rockefeller Center, no Brooklyn Bridge, no Central Park, no subway system.

Increased resort to "Section 106 agreements" by planning authorities with developers raised taxes on – and impediments to – development.

Re "World Bank Unit to Join in Internet Start-Up Finance" (Business Day, Feb. 14): The claim by James Wolfenson, the World Bank president, that the lack of Internet access is "one of the greatest impediments to development" trivializes the complex and enduring problems in developing countries.

"The digital divide is one of the greatest impediments to development, and it is growing exponentially," the World Bank's president, James D. Wolfensohn, said in a statement.

"New London is really a diamond in the rough, and it's been that way for some time, but there needed to be a reason to move past all the normal impediments to development," Mr. Goebel said.

Malaria remains one of the greatest impediments to development in many tropical regions of the world.