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(d) Sustainable management of the local natural resource base ensured by UNCDF supported local governments

First, in one or several dimensions, some part of the economy s base of tangible, intangible, and natural resource assets is being run down. I would include social cohesion as part of the asset base it is the one that is depreciated by excessive inequality.

(g) To protect our natural resource base in support of development.

Sustaining our environment and natural resources base for development

The fight against poverty could not be won without sufficient protection of the natural resources base.

That could only be ensured through the sustainable management of the world apos s natural resource base.

20.75 This subprogramme will be carried out by the Division of Natural Resources and Infrastructure.

IV. Field assets control system infrastructure

58 210 Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy, including the implementation of the World Solar Programme 1996 2005

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital. All of these are productive, but each has a distinctive role.

Most Parties noted that their economies were originally structured on natural resources, with mining and agriculture as the mainstay of GDP.

This development plan is expected to be beneficial for preserving natural and cultural assets that form the basis for the tourism industry, important for the country's economy.

In such a case, creditors of a group company with a significant asset base would have their assets diminished by the claims of creditors of another group company with a low asset base.

Because mother nature only has that much in ecological infrastructure and that much natural capital.

Ecological education, on the basis of the Act concerning the protection of nature

(b) Improving access to productive resources and infrastructure

IV. Field assets control system infrastructure

Attainment of those rights was fundamental for an independent and sovereign State of Palestine and for peace and security in the Middle East.

Solomon Islands is well endowed with natural resources and a young population that can form the basis of a good labour supply, but it lacks both human capital and physical capital, with poor infrastructure to lift productivity and deliver sustainable growth that is broad based, rurally focused and people centred.

Space based natural resources management

(d) Commodities

China s investment consists of mainly three broad categories manufacturing industry, infrastructure, and real estate. In late 2008 and 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, stimulus fueled infrastructure investment sustained output growth.

quot 3. Reaffirms that disaster reduction is an integral part of and contributes to the achievement of sustainable development, through the protection of resources, at the national and community levels, such as human lives, human capacities, financial assets, natural resources and the environment, means of production, and infrastructure

Desertification, however, was more difficult to combat because it was a consequence of a continuous natural and man made process in which the land resource base gradually lost its potential to produce food, thereby seriously threatening the economic foundation of the inhabitants of the affected region.

Investments in infrastructure and human capital are the bedrock for increasing average productivity and for ensuring high growth over a sustained period of time.

Just basically though, it is a basic piece of equipment.

Over the last 25 years, the damage caused by natural phenomena to people and national productive infrastructures has steadily risen.

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The law on cultural and natural assets also contains penal provisions, which provide for imprisonment of up to five years for causing damage to immovable cultural and natural assets and up to 10 years of imprisonment for taking abroad movable cultural and natural assets.

All these factors have increased pressures on the natural resource base and the carrying capacity of global ecosystems.

A. Observations The Workshop noted that the damage caused by natural phenomena to people and to productive infrastructures had steadily risen since the 1960s.

If invested in infrastructure, education, and external financial assets, natural resource revenues can accelerate growth. But, too often, such revenues distort economic incentives, which come to favor rent seeking and interfere with the diversification that is essential for growth.

(d) Commodities (A 59 304)

The proposed plan of action would be the basis for the Government's new investment policy, and special attention would be given to agribusiness, cotton and the autonomous port of Cotonou.

In order to improve natural resource management strategies, some developed countries advocate adopting an approach based on decentralization.

These decentralization policies have led to a transfer of competence to local natural resource management bodies based on various models.

It was important to seek programmes and projects which promoted diversification of exports and investment in natural resources and infrastructure in order to increase investment possibilities.

Therefore, lenders are seldom ready to commit the large amounts needed for infrastructure projects solely on the basis of a project s expected cash flow or assets.

One way of achieving this will be to take into account the full value of natural resources capital by internalizing their environmental and social costs.

The amount of the financing will be based in part on the creditor's estimate of the net realizable value of the assets to be encumbered.

However, it is no less true that dialogue can only be constructive if it is put on solid footing.

Malawi had many agro based natural and mineral resources such as gemstones, titanium and red soils that were not being exploited fully, and it was hoped that implementation of the integrated programme would add value to those resources and create wealth for the country.

Deteriorated resource base

e Shared capital base.