The problem, said Arun Maira, a former industrialist who is a member of the country's influential planning commission, is that India's economic rise has had the least impact on the people who need it most.
The Social Democrats are now looking for a parliamentary leader; Mr Scharping will have a tricky, albeit influential, new job; and Mr Lafontaine, besides staying party chairman, is trying to extract influential planning departments from the economics ministry to add to the already wide-ranging finance empire.There is more to all this than personal jostling for position.
Over the past few years, I have had a number of conversations with Mario and Miguel Coyula of the Instituto de Desarollo Integrativo, an influential planning body, who suggest that any new large-scale development is most likely to be in Havana's plush western suburbs, Miramar, Mariano, Playa and Cubanacan - already home to joint-venture businesses, embassies, clubs and dollar-only shops.
Partnerships also contributed to the completion and approval of influential planning products, such as comprehensive land use, neighborhood, and roadway corridor plans.
As a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1787), he presented the influential Virginia Plan and served on the Committee on Detail that prepared a first draft of the proposed constitution.
In the course of his long retirement from a career in public service under the Ostrogothic kings in Italy, Cassiodorus combined zealous preservation of the literature of the classical past with an enormously influential educational plan.
Scores of politically influential evangelicals plan to attend the meeting, but the original dream of coalescing around one candidate of the religious right — Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum or Rick Perry — is unrealistic for now, several leaders said in interviews this week.
As well as the "real-world" protests, many influential websites plan to display messages of protest on their homepages on Thursday, co-ordinated by a group called the Internet Defence League (IDL).
Building on Ian McHarg's influential ecological planning work, we argue that ecosystem service-based planning frameworks may improve our understanding of the consequences of planned actions in urban-ecological systems.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 — An influential developer plans an enormous skyscraper at the edge of the city's giant central park.
