In turn, remittances can spur this development.

If durable solutions were found, humanitarian action could become a spur for long term development.

Where's your spur?

The world awaits a new deal to spur development and create jobs on a global scale.

This current session and the forthcoming summit in September are events that should spur on the process of development.

International competition has become the spur to improve resource allocation and productive efficiency and ultimately to achieve greater development.

Spur of the moment sort of idea.

More money for education will spur economic growth.

My shame as a spur, I fled the abyss.

That may be on the spur of the moment.

International partnerships have helped to spur the reduction of measles.

Recent initiatives to spur development progress in Africa aim to respond to these disparities (source of estimates OECD news release, 18 June 1998, p. 1).

This is why the idea of establishing a BRICS development bank has taken on such importance. And the recently conducted feasibility study might spur long awaited progress.

The Sudan welcomed the 2005 World Summit's reaffirmation of the importance of the Millennium Development Goals and its call for alleviation of the burden of debt on poorer countries in order to spur their development.

Three years ago I scrabbled it on the spur of the moment.

All stakeholders recognized that additional resources were needed to spur development however, all the possible consequences of new measures envisaged to provide such resources should be analysed prior to implementation.

Because the beneficiaries of trade protection are concentrated and politically influential, while consumers are diffuse and disorganized. Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? 160

Because the beneficiaries of trade protection are concentrated and politically influential, while consumers are diffuse and disorganized. Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? Because growth and development would undermine their hold on political power.

Several regional integration initiatives include efforts to spur the creation of regional banks and settlement schemes.

We can just pretend that you decided to do it on the spur of the moment.

But the Organization will need a new impetus to spur international action worthy of the expectations of our peoples.

Furthermore, measurable and achievable targets needed to be formulated, to sharpen UNIDO's focus and spur it on to greater efforts.

Noting that the availability of microcredit and microfinance to people living in poverty, especially women, can support entrepreneurship and spur the development of microenterprises, providing goods, services and income to the poor, thus raising incomes and fostering equitable growth,

Related food procurement policies have spurred the emergence of cooperatives of small family farmers practicing sustainable agriculture. Such measures together with initiatives to enhance poor people's incomes also help to spur rural development, stimulate markets, and promote job creation.

While in some parts of the world there has been notable progress towards this goal, a great deal more effort is needed, both to enhance the implementation of existing clean energy technologies and to spur further scientific understanding and technological development.

It will only spur the ceaseless quest for superiority of these weapons and hence will stand in the way of real disarmament.

depends on whether we can work with others to restore confidence, manage change, stabilize the financial system and spur robust global growth .

3. Although economic reform and the setting up of physical infrastructure and related activities are the Government apos s priority to spur economic growth, the social development sector has not been left behind as the Government pursues its goal of people empowerment.

By connecting Japan s industries more closely with those of other countries, the TPP can accelerate this process considerably. Moreover, it can spur faster administrative reform.

However, as a spur to financial stringency and efficiency, the Committee recommended that the limit be set at 0.18 per cent of total pensionable remuneration.

But frameworks are in place for the development of international conservation measures. The Convention on Migratory Species, for example, has a track record of working with countries as well as international organizations, NGOs, media, and the private sector to spur coordinated action that meets international standards.

However, through the attention given to those crises, the Council's leadership can spur action, ensure sustained engagement and garner the support of regional actors and donors.

However, poor countries could not tackle poverty alone, but required increased aid, debt relief, capacity building support and an equitable multilateral trading system to spur growth.

Our own generation urgently needs to spur another era of great social change. This time, we must act to save the planet from a human induced environmental catastrophe.

The same organizations should generate awareness and spur early political action nationally, regionally and internationally to defuse and resolve problems which could develop into violent conflicts and wars.

The Gates Foundation has sensibly begun to facilitate consultations with leading scientists on accelerating the development of potent new tools, and is already funding the development of a vaccine, as well as new drugs and diagnostics. At the same time, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership has recently launched a long term Global Action Plan to unify the actions of the malaria community and spur additional investment.

Much theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that opening trade can spur a country s GDP growth. But increasing a pie s size does not guarantee that it will be shared fairly.

Many women in Burundi have also attested to the importance of having a female Special Representative of the Secretary General as a role model to spur their political aspirations.

In the former Soviet Union and its satellite states, environmental activism contributed dramatically to regime change. In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.

Higher interest rates can spur consumption if their impact on income outweighs the increased incentive to save. This may well be the case for Japan, which has a rapidly aging population.

Although the Bangladeshi military is watching events unfold with some apprehension, it lacks the will to install a caretaker government, as it did in 2007, when it brought peace and stability to the country by establishing a nonpartisan technocratic administration. Unfortunately, unlike Sharif s actions in Pakistan, this effort did not spur the development of a more stable political order.

An enlightened strategy must encourage China to grow green, as opposed to growing rapidly now and facing massive environmental costs later. Encouraging new investments in low pollution, energy and resource efficient industries would lead to greener development, spur investments in related upstream and downstream manufacturing and services, and build an international competitive advantage in a global sunrise industry.

Successive Puerto Rican governments thought that the island s economy was in recession and attempted to spur activity by increasing government spending. Low interest rates meant that deficits could be financed by floating bonds.

And they need to have enough flexibility to respond quickly to short term shocks. This comes down to structural reforms that spur competition, reduce unnecessary red tape, and make labor markets more adaptable.

Increased public sector investment could help to spur private sector investment, which is also severely depressed. In the United States, investment barely exceeds pre crisis levels, even though GDP has risen by 10 .