Sentences with phrase «economic progress by»

«Our approach promises environmental progress in reducing harmful global warming, economic progress by creating new high - tech jobs to meet emissions goals, and international progress by showing our allies that we're serious about this global problem.»

The CIC is thus the enemy of economic progress by attempting to decrease use of fossil fuels, the critical input to improved living standards in recent centuries.

National Center for Family Literacy Since 1989, The National Center for Family Literacy, have helped more than 1 million families make educational and economic progress by pioneering — and continuously improving — family literacy programs.

Of course, if half of all states are supporting families» economic progress by offering a higher exit limit than entrance limit, that means that the other half aren't.

Not exact matches

Another report, published by progressive advocacy group Center for American Progress and FWD.us, found that repealing the program could cost the U.S. $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, and that contributions to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security could drop by $ 24.6 billion.

By spearheading continued fintech and blockchain progress, the entrepreneurial community has a shot at supporting real and sustainable worldwide economic progress.

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»

For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

What's important to remember is that these long - term swings are driven by the fundamental economic laws of supply and demand, as well as the continuous technological progress that can affect both output and consumption.

While his economic strategy was by no means so one - sided and simplistic as was commonly believed in the 1960s and»70s and although he still proclaimed industrialization and a «technical revolution» as his goals, Mao displayed continuing anxiety regarding the corrupting influence of the fruits of technical progress and an acute nostalgia for the perceived purity and egalitarianism that had marked the moral and political world of the Jinggang Mountains and Yan» an eras.

Investors» risk appetite appears to be improved by positive economic data out of China, Japan and other key economies, an agreement between US political parties that avoided a government shutdown, and progress in tax reform negotiations in the US, among other things.

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The part that is left over — that is, the part of economic growth that can not be explained by the accumulation of capital and labour inputs — is what economists call multifactor productivity (MFP), an index that is widely interpreted as a measure of technical progress.

As former Nixon economics adviser Herbert Stein observed, President Bush has made economic growth the acid test by which every other policy is to be judged, believing that such growth will permit progress on other fronts, including raising the standard of living for the poor.

They believe what they are told by the military junta about economic progress in Argentina or, alternatively, what they are told by the party leadership in Peking about conditions in China.

Two - thirds of the economic progress made by underdeveloped nations since 1950 has been wiped out by the population explosion.

From the «materialist» point of view the progress of invention in this sense will be entirely governed by the pressure of external necessities, primarily economic.

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

From this empathy should arise an acknowledgement of the well - organized tactics employed by the dominant culture to suppress Black progress and economic upward mobility leading to a mobilized effort to address them with the gospel.

Champions 12.3, a coalition of 30 CEOs, government ministers, executives of research institutions, farmer organisations and civil society groups, was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos and aims to accelerate progress toward meeting target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which seeks to halve per capita food waste by 2030.

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

It drew on the economic ideas espoused by Adam Smith in Book 1 of the Wealth of Nations and on a belief in natural law, [5] utilitarianism [6] and progress.

Nana Akufo - Addo who has criticized the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by President John Mahama of leading Ghanaians into untold hardship has said on various political platforms that he is ready to lead Ghana into a period of economic prosperity and progress.

The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Sunday said the President's unwary statements have become very serious clog in the wheel of progress, eroding the confidence of both domestic and international investors in the Nigerian economic and social system.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, was invited to be a UK commissioner by the Centre for American Progress, which convened a UK - US inquiry, co-chaired by US former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, to examine how to secure an economic recovery which benefits all, not just the few.

Klobuchar said at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference that while anti-Trump enthusiasm could help fuel Democratic victories and the party needed to keep attacking Trump, «we need to move forward, and the way you move forward is emphasizing these economic issues and how people are getting screwed by all kinds of things.»

But the corruption scheme outlined by federal prosecutors has strained the entire nanotechnology program, threatening to knock economic progress off course in places like Utica, where growth was never certain in the best of times.

The Governor is traveling the state to assess the progress being made by each of the ten Regional Economic Development Councils.

«The progress made in England under the Coalition Government is not being repeated here in Wales due to poor economic management by the Labour Party in Wales over the last decade or so.»

The projects were listed in the council's progress report released Tuesday by state economic development officials.

To address this, the research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), led by Professor Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, set out to identify the factors that determine how this skill develops in a number of different languages and what factors in people's first language influence progress in reading.

«The Economic Impacts of Removing Unauthorized Immigrant Workers», Center for American Progress report by Queens College Economics Professors Ryan Edwards and Francesc Ortega, Sep. 2016

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

By encouraging development of green technologies and services, the federal government aims to leverage environmental progress for an overall economic benefit.

It also aims to elucidate the links between aging, longevity and radioresistance, and the ways in which research into enhancing human radioresistance could synergistically enable human healthspan extension, ultimately highlighting how ongoing research into the very well - funded sphere of aerospace research could galvinate progress in biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Foundation.

Furthermore, given the massive amount of funding allocated to research into facilitating and optimizing space exploration and optimization, the researchers hope to have shown how research into enhancing radioresistance for space exploration could galvanize progress in human healthspan extension, an area of research that is still massively underfunded despite its potential to prevent the massive economic burden posed by the future healthcare costs associated with demographic aging.

«Bache actively promoted scientific research, not as an end in itself, but as an intellectual and cultural pursuit closely linked to social, economic and moral improvement... His particular career choice and the zeal with which he pursued that choice embodied values sanctioned by patrician - republican, Protestant culture, specifically the pervasive allegiance to progress that characterised this culture.»

Separated into four stories, each set in a different region of China, and each concerning cash - strapped characters either driven to or victimized by horrific acts of violence, Jia's 2013 Cannes prize winner (for best script, though it should have been a Palme D'Or) constitutes an attempt to take on the dark side of the country's much - touted 21st - century social and economic progress.

The GRC links performance on state tests to the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), which then allows for a linkage to PISA, international tests conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Various subgroups of students, defined by ethnicity, gender, economic disadvantage, and need for special education, must be making comparable progress.

Based on some given figures from the study «Bioinspiration: And Economic Progress Report» created by Fermanian Business & Economic Institute, the biomimetic Influence in different huge industries is translated in a considerable impact in the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, in U.S.A. and in the global economy in 2030.

Some progress has been made in the debate on ESCR indicators (38), but there is still a long way to go before these indicators become a tool that can effectively monitor the degree of compliance of social and economic rights by states.

In one small group of five, the students start by comparing the strategies for black social and economic progress that Dubois and Washington pushed for in their papers.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) is a tough test, for the simple reason that it is designed to match the level of difficulty of tests used by the industrialized nations that belong to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

The introduction of new products and production methods by entrepreneurs is an important form of competition and is a source of technological progress and economic growth.

«Abruptly abandoning the standards and implementation process adopted by state leaders in 2011 will jeopardize North Carolina's economic and education progress in recent years,» reads the NC Chamber's background statement that urges members to write to lawmakers who are seeking to rid the state of the Common Core standards.