Sentence:  Progress is impeded by psychological inhibitions to effective action among those in power and by a failure on their part to understand how <WSD>local</WSD> resources , human and material , can be mobilized to achieve the national goals of modernization already symbolically accepted . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area