In recent times, electronic music festivals have been seen as big levers of economic development for provincial towns.
By giving local leaders the ability to control the levers of good growth, cities can tailor their approach to economic development to their own unique strengths, weaknesses and potential".
Oil needs to be a lever for development.
In acquiring know-how from abroad, protecting its infant industries, and using the levers of the state to hasten development, it is following a blueprint that most other developed countries used at some point — from Britain, to the United States, to Japan, to Taiwan and South Korea, to India.
The Russians may be in a more adolescent, table-pounding stage of development, but Mr. Putin, too, prefers to work the economic levers, bullying with petroleum.
He saw reflective thinking in the education of individuals as a lever for the development of a wider democratic society.
Using an emergency law that allows arrest without charge and restricts the ability to organize, the Egyptian government and the ruling National Democratic Party have for decades blocked development of an effective opposition while monopolizing the levers of power.
The loss was a stunning development in a country where Mr. Chávez controls nearly all of the levers of power, and it represented a clear rejection of the authoritarianism and cult of celebrity for which Mr. Chávez is often criticized.
The outcome is a stunning development in a country where Mr. Chávez and his supporters control nearly all of the levers of power.
"Bringing investment dollars to Africa is important -- but investments in people are one of the most critical economic levers for African development".
