In the northern province of Cabo Delgado, significant quantities of natural gas were discovered, spurring cooperation between the government and the World Bank to upgrade infrastructure, institute regulatory reforms, and incorporate poverty-alleviation programs.
This included research organisations; logistics service providers; system builders and manufacturers; academic institutes; international unions; infrastructure managers; and consultants.
From a national point of view, PIAAC-L has merged for the first time three distinct and very heterogeneous large-scale surveys conducted by three research data infrastructure institutes within the Leibniz Association in Germany.
In an unpublished 2013 MPG survey of current and former Ph.D. candidates, 77% of the respondents said they chose to do their Ph.D. at a Max Planck institute for the research infrastructure and equipment available, followed closely by the institute's reputation and international networks.
First, there is a need to establish a national agency or research institute to provide the infrastructure required to support and nurture health economic evaluation research.
Xu Li, an official at the Ministry of Communications' transport research institute, agrees that China's infrastructure expansion is not as restrained by rules as it is in America.
"You often have competition rather than co-operation," says Carol Whiteside, who as president of the Great Valley Centre, a research institute, has worked on regional infrastructure projects.
Currently, the extramural fund is 25% of the total annual funding, while 75% is earmarked to build the infrastructure at the institute.
Companies that relied on such an infrastructure responded by instituting standards meant to eliminate child and slave labour and other overt forms of abuse in factories.
Companies that relied on such an infrastructure responded by instituting standards meant to eliminate child and slave labor and other overt forms of abuse in factories.
These stem from a recent decision by the European Union to stop funding its share of the infrastructure costs for the institute and several other European research facilities (Science, 5 November, p. 1058).
