Based on the evaluation reports, projects' challenges included overly ambitious goals, poor management of local stakeholders, inefficiences, and resources shortages.
With increasingly stringent emission standards faced by industry and water resources shortages confronted with China, it is expected membrane technology will play key role to address water quality and quantity issues in China.
"If we continue with the massive consumption of resources, shortages will only get worse, it will become very hard to maintain stable, high-speed growth, and the economy risks declining greatly," wrote Ma Kai, director of the State Development and Reform Commission, in a sobering recent article in People's Daily, the Communist Party newspaper.
The report states that in 2001-02 "there were serious delays in several councils in arranging adaptations, attributed by social services to shortages of financial resources, shortages of trained staff, poor systems and processes with housing agencies, or a combination of these factors".
They have also had to contend with a doubling of development costs across the industry in the last five years, more acute competition for energy resources, shortages in steel, engineering and manufacturing capacity, and pressures posed by an aging work force.
What policy frameworks are available to address the human resources shortages (and brain drain) in Malawi?
