Sentences with phrase «economic council calls»

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Maude Barlow, national chairwoman of the Council of Canadians, has called the deal a «resource grab» by a faltering EU that's resisting its own economic downfall.

As he points out, when a review of the city finances under Mayor David Miller called for improved economic development, Toronto created Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, arms - lengths organizations with a «mandate from the mayor and council... that the city is indeed open for business.»

The powerful royal, who also heads the country's economic council, hopes the so - called «Vision 2030» initiative will jumpstart the private sector, provide jobs for a growing population and improve Saudis» cloistered lifestyles.

And the administration has made clear in recent days it will leave formal drafting of a tax bill to GOP leaders on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees who have been part of the so - called Big Six negotiating group, which includes Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

The White House Council of Economic Advisers has released a 30 - page strategy for reducing drug costs, and it calls current policies «neither wise nor just.»

The Council manages a research funding initiative called the Matching Grants Research Program, which has invested more than $ 65 million to create a broader economic impact that has been projected to exceed $ 1 billion.

At a meeting of administration officials and moderate Democratic Senators, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn pulled out his cellphone and took a call from Trump, who is traveling in Asia this week, according an account of the meeting from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio)-- one of the Democrats gathered for a meeting organized by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D - W.

«Strong action on the part of the Reserve Bank of reversing the policy will be called for only if inflation shows very strong signs of decline,» C. Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, told CNBC - TV18 Thursday.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

The program called for mixed public - private ownership of key industries to prevent monopolies and economic concentration, «planning and direction» of the economy, self - management of economic relations through occupational councils, promotion of small - to medium - sized firms, and protection of individual freedom and private property.

The sort of program for which the world crisis calls should be greater by a factor of ten; the National Council of Churches has recommended $ 3 billion per year for economic development abroad.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA), under the Global Food Security programme are delighted to announce the five successful grants of the «Understanding the Challenges of the Food System» call.

On December 31, 1981, Ghanaians woke up to hear the voice of Flt Lt Rawlings on radio claiming that he had overthrown the government of the PNP and launched a revolutionary government called the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) to re-arrange the social and economic order of the country.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has announced the successful proposals to be funded under the Empathy and Trust In Communicating ONline (EMoTICON) call.

But the governor called out the region's legislators for wanting to shift control of state economic development funding away from the regional economic development councils that Cuomo created and put the money back in the hands of the Senate and Assembly for them to dole out individually.

Some newspapers have called for an ethics probe after Duffy admitted he's been interviewing for a job with the Rochester Business Alliance, a trade and lobby group, while serving on Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Councils.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

Leading figures in the Labour party will call on local councils across England to work together to create «regional economic powerhouses» in a bid to smooth out the «vast» wealth inequalities in the UK.

A few months before the Fishkill funds were set to expire, Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo received a call from March Gallagher, an Ulster County official who served on the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the strategy of empowering the councils to identify regional strategies a «point of inflection» that reverses 40 years of upstate economic decline.

Cuomo called the money that went into the Regional Economic Development Councils a success.

Mujica also blasted the effort to have the regional economic development council members disclose their business interests, calling it «absurd and a not so subtle effort to end the REDCs.»

Southern Kaduna Peoples» Union, SOKAPU, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the National Economic Council to include Kaduna State in the...

Plattsburgh North Country Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Garry Douglas, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council, explains to WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley that they're calling their initiative «Ignite».

A November report issued by the governor's New York City regional economic development council had called for a «modern convention center in Queens,» but the Bloomberg administration only found out about the proposed location, Aqueduct racetrack in Ozone Park, from the newspapers, according to an administration source, further underscoring the distance between the two chief executives.

In this way, local resources will be used in the best way possible: we will be encouraging economic development in our area, using a local workforce to carry out that development, and using targeted local incentives to assist in appropriate development projects,» County Executive Poloncarz said Board Member Michael Hoffert, President, Buffalo AFL - CIO Labor Council, called the labor force policy «a no - brainer.»

Speaking to reporters afterward, Flanagan said the pay issue was «water under the bridge» but insisted the Senate would not be bashful about questioning Cuomo's much - touted initiatives — including his use of the so - called Regional Economic Development Council's to dole out economic developmenEconomic Development Council's to dole out economic developmeneconomic development funds.

Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO and outgoing co-chair of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, sharply criticized the decision by state transportation officials to subsidize an enhancement of the DeWitt rail yard and call it an «inland port.»

Clarkson University President and Co-Chair of the North Country Economic Development Council Tony Collins calls the concept a new paradigm that will add new sources of revenue through a new tax environment.

Calling for a «modest revolt,» 20 United Kingdom scientists, including one Nobel laureate and eight Royal Society fellows, have launched a scathing attack on the U.K.'s seven research councils for now requiring grant applications to include a 2 - page statement on the economic impact of the proposed work.

ASCD's Leadership Council recently adopted an official position calling for a comprehensive approach to learning that recognizes that successful young people are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, motivated, civically inspired, engaged in the arts, prepared for work and economic self - sufficiency, and ready for a multicultural world.

In the meantime, I encourage you to have a look at a fresh nonpartisan analysis and set of recommendations on climate policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, which calls for concrete steps by the United States as well as intensified efforts to build bridges between established and emerging economic powers.

«Representatives at three levels of California government were quick to call for economic measures against neighboring Arizona this week in the wake of its passage of a tough new immigration law... On Tuesday, seven members of the Los Angles City Council signed a proposal for a boycott that urged the city to «refrain from conducting business» or participating in conventions in Arizona.

CAN called for the U.N. to eject all skeptics from the Paris talks, but without result, since the skeptic groups had for years held proper credentials from ECOSOC, the Economic and Social Council, the U.N. status controller.

«Acting today will save us money,» Jason Furman, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, which is releasing the analysis, told reporters on a conference call.

* The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) was formerly called the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association).

According to a report compiled by the Council of Economic Advisers, avoiding what they call «conflicted investment advice» will keep $ 17 billion dollars a year from being shifted from savers to advisors who are focused on their own bottom lines.

According to an article by Russell published on the 2016 Davos website, many members of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics have joined more than 3,000 AI experts in signing a 2015 open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.

The White House also announced the release of a new paper by the National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers, called Patent Assertion and U.S. Innovation.