Sentences with phrase «global economic measures»

Global economic measures, while admittedly suffering from relatively short histories, are suggesting that growth should remain positive.

Global economic measures, while admittedly suffering from relatively short histories, are suggesting that growth should remain positive.

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Along with managing Canada's performance during the global economic crisis, I am pleased our government brought forward positive measures to make Canada one of the world's best places to do business.

But as Brazil seeks to keep its economic momentum going, and begins to define its ambitions on the global stage in measure with its new - found clout, some question whether the 62 - year - old Rousseff will be able to handle what's heading her way.

China on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 vowed to take measures of the «same strength» in response to a proposed U.S. tariff hike on $ 50 billion worth of Chinese goods in a spiraling dispute over technology policy that has fueled fears it might set back a global economic recovery.

The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of global shipping that is followed closely by economists, is suddenly raising red flags over the pace of the economic rebound.

Basically, Mr. Flaherty is looking for suggestions on how to «strengthen our economy in the face of global economic threats»; with «cost - neutral or low cost measures», focusing on «more efficient and effective spending» that builds on the «government's belief of respecting taxpayers» dollars» and «encourages private sector growth and leadership».

Any estimate of the economic costs of protectionist measures, let alone trade wars, is subject to uncertainty given the complexity of global supply chains.

Tariffs are taxing the global financial markets as they try to guesstimate the economic impact from the effect of tit - for - tat responses to the initial U.S. measures efforts to gain support for dealing with Chinese trade violations.

Following the vote, the country's Purchasing Managers» Index — a measure of manufacturing output and a key economic indicator — suffered its largest one - month drop since 2009, when the global recession was at its worst.

Their principle measure of global economic growth is the equally weighted average of quarterly OECD industrial production growth in 12 developed countries.

Initially, the bank's program for alleviating global poverty was dominated by a strategy of economic growth, measured primarily in terms of GDP and channeled largely through big projects aimed at infrastructure development that benefited the rich more than the poor.

Through such measures they tried to create the macroeconomic conditions deemed essential to economic growth in a liberalized, market - based global economy.

Supported by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Created by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and Innovation Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, written by Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury, and Bob Stembridge, highlights these countries» public and private investments in research and development, their scientific and engineering labor forces, their output of research papers and particularly active areas of research, their academic impact as measured by citations, and their economic potential based on innovation and patenting.

The task combines «science, technology expertise and know - how learned at NASA with a bottoms - up maker's mentality,» says Juan Carlos Castilla - Rubio, CEO of the Planetary Skin Institute and co — chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability 2012 — 14.

In fact, such energy - saving measures in the U.S. alone could negate the need for 66 large coal - fired power plants, according to a study by McKinsey Global Institute, an economic think tank and global consulGlobal Institute, an economic think tank and global consulglobal consultancy.

Global Education Rankings to Measure Tolerance (BBC) Project Zero collaborated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to develop a new framework for the 2018 PISA test, which will focus on measuring and understanding students» global compeGlobal Education Rankings to Measure Tolerance (BBC) Project Zero collaborated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to develop a new framework for the 2018 PISA test, which will focus on measuring and understanding students» global compeglobal competence.

Released June 21 by the Washington - based Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the report surveys measures that focus on such topics as global awareness; financial, economic, business, and civic literacy; higher - order thinking and problem - solving; interpersonal and self - directional skills; and information - and communications - technology literacy.

However, simply measuring NJ against other states does not capture the reality of the 21st century global economy or the economic and educational advances of other countries.

International test results such as those of the OECD have become surrogate measures of the future economic potential of nations, prompting a global education race between national education systems.

The BoC's decision has been the subject of much debate — recent low interest rates were intended as an economic stimulus coming out of last year's recession, and some economists have been arguing that rates should stay low for the time being as a measure of protection against global market turmoil.

«In part, the global economic slowdown has helped to instigate this change, with the high ticket price of long - haul first - class seating proving to be in stark contrast to cost - cutting measures implemented by governments around the world»

«In part, the global economic slowdown has helped to instigate this change, with the high ticket price of long - haul first - class seating proving to be in stark contrast to cost - cutting measures implemented by governments around the world,» said Heath Lockett, senior analyst, aerospace electronics at IHS.

The global economic crisis, largely created by the various entities we want to tax, has forced austerity measures in both the European governments and the United...

Another report by the German Institute of Economic Research concluded that «If climate policy measures are not introduced, global climate change damages amounting to up to 20 trillion US dollars can be expected in the year 2100... The costs of an active climate protection policy implemented today would reach globally around 430 billion US dollars in 2050 and around 3 trillion US dollars in 2100.»

The figures say that this 77 % of energy from renewables by 2050 can be achieved with zero impact on either global economic growth (measured in GDP per capita at purchasing power parity) or on population growth compared with the «do nothing» baseline.

Global climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) offer a new framework against which your business can align, measure and explain its actions to operate more responsibly and deliver positive social, environmental and economic impacts.

The report is comprised of contributions from industry leaders and experts on how to transition to a clean energy economy, navigating the transition during global economic recovery and the possibilities of market - based measures in mitigating greenhouse gases, amongst other topics.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

Providing an effective treatment (containing the rise in CO2) needs economic and regulatory measures on a global scale.

As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.

«If it comes to a choice between measures to curtail global warming under the 2015 Paris climate accord and growing the U.S. economy, economic considerations would prevail,» Cohn told reporters on Air Force One Thursday.

Global energy intensity, a measure of energy use per unit of economic output, would improve to 2030 at a rate almost three times faster than the rate seen since 2000.

Determined to protect the ozone layer by taking precautionary measures to control equitably total global emissions of substances that deplete it, with the ultimate objective of their elimination on the basis of developments in scientific knowledge, taking into account technical and economic considerations and bearing in mind the developmental needs of developing countries,

He said business people should support Brazil's government in measures to protect the forest, adding that the current global model of economic development is unsustainable.

It initially focused on developing a global atlas for solar and wind energy; a corresponding long - term strategy on joint capacity building; and a report on economic value creation effects from renewable energy deployment, including how to measure these effects and policies to facilitate and optimize them.

Almost 19 % of BC's «Rosenfelds» were saved in the 70 % of CO2E covered by the BC Carbon Tax, so a bit over 13 % savings in Rosenfelds (this would be more effective than any other single measure anywhere by a wide margin), and the economy of the province remained as strong as before the legislative changes so far as analysts can determine, which is pretty freaking amazing, given that the changes happened just before the largest global economic downturn in over half a century, and pretty much 95 % of the planet's economies tanked in that time.

And yet, despite a long history of scientific warnings (please see Footnote 30 for a detailed description30), the many current ecological and economic impacts and crises, the future risks and dangers, the large number of international meetings and conferences on the urgent need for climate policies and measures, and the adoption of some national and regional climate policies, growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement has not only remained strong but is actually accelerating.

Increasingly, in complex public health evaluation research, there are questions about whether all relevant benefits can be captured in a single summary outcome measure such as QALY or unit of «effectiveness» or net benefit approach17 which is why the use of a cost - consequence analysis (CCA) framework is being recommended for such economic evaluations.18 Other outcomes from the trial such as the Parent — Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale (an observational measure that is independently rated blind to group allocation) will be included in the CCA so that all costs and outcomes from the trial can be displayed transparently for decision - makers to consider trade - offs themselves.