Opponents say there are other legal hurdles that could delay or thwart development.
Hariri has tense relations with Hezbollah, which has accused him of trying to thwart development in poor Shiite areas.
This view has powerful supporters, such as international NGOs and Brazil's Catholic church.But to farmers, miners and lumbermen, this looks like a conspiracy to thwart development.
Mr. Bishop said he hoped any infrastructure bill would incorporate changes to the Endangered Species Act, which many conservatives argue has been used to thwart development.
Building on ECLA's perspective, dependency theorists argued that colonialism recast economies in the Third World in a highly specialized export-producing mold, creating fundamental and interrelated structural distortions that have continued to thwart development.
The plans, which include a retractable roof and a "turf farm" for sunning removable sections of natural stadium grass, seek to forge a political compromise between two forces whose rivalry has helped thwart development in the area: Gov. George E. Pataki, who wants an expansion of the Javits Center, and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who wants a stadium.
To thwart development, they bought property there that they turned into a community park.
He has spent $100,000 on studies to ensure the feasibility of the project, Merritt said, adding that he felt personally attacked by his neighbors who were trying to thwart development of the lot.
On the fringes of the forum, French President Jacques Chirac replied to the repeated restitution demands by contending that Haiti's dire economic straits were more the consequence of corrupt government than thwarted development inflicted by payoffs to France in exchange for recognition of the nation's independence.
Such changes can be painful to carry through in policy areas that apply to national interests...Nevertheless, there is no excuse for not changing a policy that thwarts development in poor countries (PCC, pp.21-22; emphaddedadded).
Think for a moment of poverty as a disease, thwarting growth and development, robbing children of the healthy, happy futures they might otherwise expect.
