To accommodate those visitors, billions of dollars have been spent upgrading and building infrastructure, reducing crime, and addressing environmental issues.
Companies no longer need to build and maintain their own infrastructure, reducing costs during periods when workloads are smaller.
But the breakthrough is being seen as highly important for internet service providers (ISPs), as it means a greater amount of information can be sent through existing broadband infrastructure, reducing the need for costly upgrades.
Tim Geithner: Through, as you used -- listed them: education, better infrastructure, reducing growth and health care costs, improving health care outcomes and in leading us to a more energy efficient, cleaner energy economy.
Armed conflict damages national health systems through destruction of infrastructure, reducing essential medical supplies, death and displacement of health workers, breakdown of health information systems, and reducing state leadership and governance capacity in all sectors [ 4- 8].
In addition to the improved health and empowerment of women and girls, fewer births lead to a boost in the growth of GDP per capita; reduced pressure on the need to build schools, clinics and infrastructure; reduced environmental degradation; and greater political and social stability, as youth unemployment declines.
It was barely two years since the Kosovo war had seen Serbia's infrastructure reduced to rubble by Nato bombs and crippling economic sanctions.
Moreover, green infrastructure reduces air pollution, cools the city during hot summer months, increases property values and provides other ecological and quality of life benefits valued at between $139 and $418 million.
The Marina Barrage and Reservoir, which opened in 2008, is at the heart of Singapore's two-billion-dollar campaign to improve drainage infrastructure, reduce the size of flood-prone areas, and enhance the quality of city life.
