But a clutch of Western development officials I've been talking to all acknowledge that the "Madonna Incident" points towards a more general shift - already in progress - away from the top-down aid of past decades and towards a new focus on policy development, partnership and business.
This makes the model unduly dependent on foreign aid, a common complaint of Africans about many Western-inspired development projects.
He was an extraordinarily wide-ranging historian, producing more than 20 books that encompassed, between them, most of the cultural development of western civilisation.
However, they argued the Western investment and economic development that would come with disarming and rejoining the international community would strengthen Libya, whose young population suffers from high unemployment.
In a separate development, Western nations are pressing the UN to threaten Damascus with sanctions as it considers renewing the mandate for its observer mission in Syria which expires on 20 July.
The development of excellent Western business schools depends heavily on donations from successful graduates.
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The early tropical season, June-August, may favor cyclone development in the western Atlantic basin, which can then threaten the Southeast coast.
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Prior to Google, de Castro spent two years at Dell Corporation, where he managed sales and business development operations across Western Europe.
After the unmasking of Fuchs through the Venona decrypts, Moscow planned to impede the development of a Western hydrogen bomb by casting doubt on the loyalty of key scientists.
Sales of the Chinese medicines should cover the development costs of the Western-style drugs.
Brooks and Albert Fritz, Western Cape provincial minister of social development, said the accused man had been a family friend.
Thus did he open the entire western U.S. to commercial development and secure Chicagos role as the nations future rail hub.
They want to set up their own development bank to reduce their reliance on Western financial institutions.
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"We are working with north Wales to see if we can put in place a development region, " Lewis told the Western Mail.
While completing my undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, I put my web design and development skills to work for the university, becoming a part-time instructional technology consultant and managing the online web presence of countless courses.
The reasons for this are manifold, from the overextended energy distribution infrastructure in much of the Western world, to the slower-than-expected development of renewable energy technologies.
When Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development party swept to power last November, Western governments were delighted to see the end of a government that had been plagued by indecision and incompetence.
These statements can be interpreted as saying: thanks in advance for providing us with observer and eventual membership status in the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank as well as expanded access to Western credits (particularly the taxpayer guaranteed variety).
And the Western Energy Alliance estimates that environmental approval for the average energy development initiative takes over seven years.
It is an historic development, one under-reported in the mainstream Western media.
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Since then, Western Wind has substantially increased in value by bringing its Windstar development into commercial operation, and by making substantial progress with Yabucoa.
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Japan's wariness over this precipitous GATT concession, like its earlier opposition to Soviet membership in the ill-conceived European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has reflected to date the most visionary Western policy approach to cosmetic Soviet economic half-steps.
Only Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Croatia spend even half of western Europe's 2.2% of GDP on research and development.
Pacific Hydro already runs Australia's largest wind farm, a 35-turbine, 52-megawatt development that is spread over a number of grazing properties at Ararat in western Victoria.
The dramatic migration pattern can be chalked up to the rapid development of an oil- and gas-rich shale formation in the western part of the state.
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With the widely perceived abeyance of the Soviet threat, nearly every Western democracy has chosen to slacken the pace with which it pursues defense research and development.
Considering that Toshiba, Seagate and Western Digital are all in the SSD business I expect to see more interaction and joint development of HDD and flash products in future industry offerings.
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The rejection of investment and of Western approaches to human rights was certainly not in step with the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) being championed by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.
Such a development would be neither in the interests of the Soviet people nor compatible with vital Western security concerns.
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