Sentences with phrase «economic evidence showed»

Economic evidence showed a typical B.C. middle class family couldn't afford to pay the fees and it was worse for single women.

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Tony Nash, managing director at the consulting firm IHS, pointed to anecdotal evidence to show that Japan's economic prospects are turning around.
At this point, all the available evidence seems to show that the digital - music business, at least the way it is currently structured, simply isn't economic.
It is hard to find empirical evidence that shows that economic growth by itself has eliminated deficits.
Though the underlying reason for that Treasury price strength was concern about economic weakness and credit defaults, falling bond yields do allow us to take a more constructive stance once market internals show evidence of improvement.
In 2013, the federal government continued, as in the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policy.
The reasons for judgment have now been released and show that Justice Wigney preferred the economic evidence suggesting the conduct resulted from oligopoly behaviour rather than agreement.
The attorneys add that evidence at the trial will show funding problems put the project at risk, which in turn could have embarrassed Cuomo and hurt his efforts at economic revitalization in the area.
The scheme failed to deliver the flexibility regional economies need to become more competitive the evidence, based on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) at Bristol University, shows.
There is no evidence that Academy status enhances standards, and all the evidence shows that they are hurdles and barriers to schools working together, which is vital in these tough economic times.»
But there is plenty of evidence to show it has brought economic and social benefits
Firstly, George Osborne and Danny Alexander deserve credit for designing a fiscal consolidation that broadly aligns with economic best practice: empirical evidence shows that a ratio of 4:1 spending cuts to tax rises appears to correlate with the fastest and strongest recoveries; raising taxes to fund government spending is counter-productive.
Evidence shows that those in lower socio - economic groups are more likely to be obese, overweight and physically inactive so that's where the policy priority should be, we believe.
As is well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students with good grades or high scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.
The potential for good programs to provide an economic benefit is sensible, given evidence showing the link between early SEL skills and costly long - term outcomes in domains of crime, education, employment, and other markers of well - being (Jones et al., 2015).
Evidence shows that patterns of participation in the arts are determined in childhood, and that participation varies considerably between different socio - economic groups, with the most disadvantaged children the least likely to have access to the arts outside school.
The report expands on existing evidence linking parents» economic resources to children's school readiness by showing that, in addition to gaps in cognitive skills such as math and reading, gaps in noncognitive skills like persistence, self - control, and social skills exist between socioeconomically disadvantaged and advantaged children.
«The evidence at trial overwhelmingly showed that these statutes promote and support important public interests like attracting and retaining qualified teachers for California public schools while providing objective, fair, and transparent procedures in the event of economic layoffs,» the unions stated in announcing their appeal.
The Education Trust - Midwest, a non-partisan education policy and research organization, notes that although there was some improvement overall, the M - STEP results still show evidence of economic and racial achievement gaps.
Recent U.S. economic data — including the ISM non-manufacturing survey and the July non-farm payroll report — have provided more evidence that the economy in the second half of the year should show an improvement over what we saw in the first half.
Does Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Show Statistical Evidence Of An Economic Moat?
In sum, the evidence shows that implementing a «nuclear - free» policy for Sweden (or countries in a similar situation) would constitute a highly retrograde step for climate, health and economic protection.
JIm, you might recall that I wrote a head post on Lilley's critique of the Stern Review, in which he says that: «This study simply challenges Stern's economic methods and conclusions — and shows that his Review was an exercise not in evidence - based policy making but in policy - based evidence making.»
For the case of climate change, Thagard and Findlay (2011) showed how the mainstream scientific position, namely that GHG emissions from human economic activities are causing the Earth to warm, is coherent and accounts for the available evidence.
• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainteconomic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertaintEconomic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.
This guidance document estimates these economic values, by means of best international analytical practices and environmental and economic evidence from Kenya, and shows that montane forests have consistently been undervalued in conventional national accounting.
But evidence shows this is the wrong approach to address climate change and negotiators would be better off focusing on market competition and innovation, which have proven able to reduce emissions intensity and promote economic growth.
(point 83, emphasis added) «In that regard, it may be necessary to produce evidence showing that the decision is based on economic evaluations comparable to those which, in the circumstances, a rational private investor in a situation as close as possible to that of the Member State would have had carried out, before making the investment, in order to determine its future profitability.
(point 82, emphasis added) «That evidence must show clearly that, before or at the same time as conferring the economic advantage -LRB-...), the Member State concerned took the decision to make an investment, by means of the measure actually implemented, in the public undertaking.»
There is strong evidence that shows that universal community - based systems of high quality early childhood education and care are part of the backbone of strong economies: ECEC has short - term, medium - term and long - term economic and social impacts on children, their parents, the labour force, local economies and the larger economy.
The potential for good programs to provide an economic benefit is sensible, given evidence showing the link between early SEL skills and costly long - term outcomes in domains of crime, education, employment, and other markers of well - being (Jones et al., 2015).
The results of this evaluation of the Early Start service showed that, despite clear benefits of the program for parenting - and child - related outcomes, as described in our earlier article, 1 there was no evidence to suggest that the program had a positive impact on a wide range of family - related outcomes, including maternal health, family functioning, family economic circumstances, and susceptibility to family stress.
Research shows that evidence - based home visiting can reduce health care costs, improve education outcomes, and increase family self - sufficiency and economic security.
«The fact that we continue to see a strong core of metros showing up on the improving list each month adds to the growing evidence that the emerging housing recovery has a solid foundation on which to build as housing returns to its traditional role of driving economic growth,» observes NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe.
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