In 2009, after 1MDB was set up to pursue development projects, officials of 1MDB and others, under the pretense of investing in a joint venture between 1MDB and a Saudi oil company, transferred more than $1bn to a Swiss bank account.
Governments whose national companies are pursuing "development" projects in Burma -- such as India, Thailand, and China -- should re-think their energy security strategies, which are resulting in neither energy nor security for the people on the other end.
President Hugo Chávez, moreover, has pursued boondoggle development projects such as the South America Regional Infrastructure Integration Initiative (known by its Spanish acronym IIRSA), which aims to integrate and synchronize strategic infrastructure works that will facilitate the development of natural resources.
Other scientists say that the award is generous enough for academic researchers to pursue drug development projects that wouldn't otherwise be possible without corporate funding.
Nokia did not pursue development, he said.
Over the past few years, Mr. Erdogan had begun alienating his liberal supporters by intimidating the news media and pursuing large urban development projects without public feedback.
She served as environment minister under Ms Rousseff's predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, until resigning in 2008 over ungreen development projects pursued by other ministries.Her frail, saintly figure stands in stark contrast to the self-serving pragmatists who dominate Brazil's congress.
Otherwise, you just end up with countries pursuing a hundred different development projects, but in the end not much is achieved.
Kelly Yee currently lives in the Washington, D.C., metro area and is pursuing energy and international development projects.
Coupled with its nuclear program, Tehran has been pursuing a missile development project.
