This is one of the reasons behind China's massive investment in the infrastructure of neighboring countries, a phenomenon that will be buttressed by the establishment of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative in Southeast Asia.
To draw sun worshipers away from neighboring Greece and Italy, Albania's shambolic infrastructure needs reviving.
Occasionally, they also find wage labor work in road construction and infrastructure projects in neighboring areas.
Having endured nearly 13 years of international sanctions and an eight-year war with neighboring Iran before that, Iraq's oil infrastructure is by all accounts a rickety patchwork.
Hence, customer demand should be balanced among neighboring stations through the use of communication infrastructures.
Risks to Mauritania's economy include its recurring exposure to droughts, dependence on foreign aid and investment, and insecurity in neighboring Mali, as well as significant shortages of infrastructure, institutional capacity, and human capital.
For example, local government officials also started exploring the possibilities for cooperation between the heat infrastructures in Hengelo and Enschede (two neighboring cities in Twente; a region in the Dutch province of Overijssel).
To overcome renewable energy intermittency, the developed algorithm virtually aggregates neighboring microgrids into clusters, which virtually exchange energy through the distribution grid infrastructure stabilizing the main power infeed.
Cuba's infrastructure its roads, energy grid, and digital network lags behind neighboring countries.
After seven years of war, Afghanistan presents a unique set of problems: a rural-based insurgency, an enemy sanctuary in neighboring Pakistan, the chronic weakness of the Afghan government, a thriving narcotics trade, poorly developed infrastructure, and forbidding terrain.
