Sentences with phrase «large economic benefits»

Even in Scotland, where wind power has been promoted as having potentially large economic benefits, more people favour the protection of picturesque landscapes than developing wind power.

Some countries, like Russia, Mongolia and Canada, would see large economic benefits from global warming, the study projects.

Large economic benefits should accrue to states that take advantage of this new flexibility.

It was designed to calculate the largest economic benefits possible by using multipliers bigger than those used in other Canadian pipeline evaluations.

Not exact matches

A drawback of being a small business owner is that the budget for such quality, such as employee incentives and benefits, is not as plentiful as it is for a larger company (especially in the economic climate we are living in today).

When it comes to investing in clean tech, «larger or more diverse economies stand to benefit more; smaller provinces, whose industrial structure is not as diverse, tend to have smaller economic multipliers,» explains the Conference Board of Canada in a report.

Since Illinois Tool get a large share of its revenue from the U.S., it should benefit from higher U.S. economic growth.

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

By working together, small and large companies can learn from each other, benefit from each other, and provide the economic growth needed for communities to flourish.

The proposed $ 36 - billion project would be the largest private - sector investment in Canadian history and is expected to bring substantial economic benefits, including up to $ 2.5 billion in annual tax revenue for all levels of government and nearly $ 3 billion in annual contributions to Canada's GDP.

The word «invest» still meant: «To attempt to help create new economic activity by putting capital toward ** economically productive ** uses that benefit the larger society.»

Republicans say that the business tax cuts will drive economic growth, adding jobs and pushing up wages, thus creating benefits for Americans at large.

At that time, Fischer saw benefits to maintaining a larger balance sheet, remarking that when to ``... begin phasing out reinvestment will depend on how economic and financial conditions and the economic outlook evolve.»

«This partnership signals the intention of TechAlliance and its community partners, as well as the larger London region, to play a more prominent role as an enabler of innovation regionally, to the economic benefit of the entire province.»

With all these great benefits to individuals, communities, and businesses comes one more boon: the White House Council of Economic Advisors reports that by increasing productivity and job satisfaction, work flexibility is good for our economy at large.

Freeing Main Street community banks from regulations designed for larger and riskier Wall Street financial firms will produce a positive economic impact while preserving the widespread benefits of local banking over the long - term.

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. is moving ahead with a $ 12 - billion plan to ship western oil to Quebec and the East Coast — the largest project in the company's history and one it compares to the Canadian Pacific Railway in its economic impact for the country and trade benefits overseas.

Whatever the specific reforms — and we would expect a period of experiment to see what forms are most effective — the major benefit in the democratization of the economy would be to limit the harshness of the labor market, to give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

Charles Euchner, author of Playing the Field: Why sports teams move and cities fight to keep them, and Alex Fynn, a British author who has written extensively about Arsenal, separately determined that a pro sports team provides roughly the same economic benefit to a community as a large supermarket.

Frustrated by the economic benefit claims, Goldin said she started digging into the large pool of literature about the health benefits of nursing.

The UK's largest shooting organisation has drawn on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

There are a number of important arguments for why Scotland should remain part of the United Kingdom: the need to avoid further economic turbulence in already troubled times; the benefits of being a relatively large country with far - reaching international influence; and the long history and common values that we share with the Scots.

The United States has benefitted for several decades from the perception in large parts of the region that it has acted as a benign hegemon that has no territorial ambitions and can act as a stabilizing force allowing the serious business of economic development to continue without distraction (Goh, 2008).

The UK's largest shooting organisation has drawn on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism

The project is an economic development bonanza in and of itself, but its benefits can grow exponentially as this trailblazing endeavor encourages future investments, large and small, in our community.»

«But what really stands out is that our neighbors are overwhelmingly loyal to our rights and fully recognize that the work we undertook in the last decade reinvests in the region, pays large benefits to local communities and supports thousands of local jobs, hundreds of vendors and has a dynamic economic multiplier effect.»

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.

It took a Freedom of Information request to reveal that large swathes of the country, including places supposed to benefit from classic compatible HS2 trains such as Liverpool, Lancaster and Glasgow, could lose economic activity if HS2 goes ahead.

The UK's largest shooting organisation drew on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

He noted with concern that Nigeria has been involved in peacekeeping operations in Africa and world at large but was yet to reap the economic and diplomatic benefits of such venture.

«National economic growth slowed in 2016 and New York is not immune,» Morris Peters, a Budget Division spokesman said, «but under this administration unemployment is down in every region of the state, median household income growth is outpacing the nation as a whole, taxes are down for every New Yorker, and upstate is benefiting from the largest economic development investment in history.»

One of the largest obstacles to the transfer of research results into valuable goods is the uncertainty over who benefits from the economic exploitation of these results.

The conclusion: Even when selection bias is corrected for, college still makes economic sense, and the benefits are larger in some areas of study than in others.

Terry Engelder, a geologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, who was among the first to recognize the economic potential of the Marcellus Shale formation, says that large data sets like the one Siegel is working with is, at least, one benefit of the whole fracking controversy.

Here local authorities instituted the Adriatic Sea's largest marine protected area for dolphins, only for the designation to lapse when commercial developers touted the jobs and other economic benefits that a recreational marina could provide.

They found that in Kenya, the benefits from reduced malnutrition can be larger than the total economic surplus.

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

This project aims to heighten awareness among relevant countries of the ecological role of large carnivores, their socio - economic impacts and the potential benefits of their presence.

For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

Economist Robert Lynch recently released a study, Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation, which found that providing pre-K education produces large, measurable economic benefits for children and the nation.

The analysis, from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, also found the teaching method has large, initial benefits for all students at age five and age seven.

The social equity arguments for preschool programs have recently been reinforced by compelling economic evidence that suggests that society at large benefits from investing in these programs.

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Any economic neophyte can see the benefit of increasing discretionary income of a large demographic; for instance, the additional income can be devoted elsewhere towards other industries which helps boost the economy overall.

Over the past five days, the officials said, the White House successfully put pressure on the E.P.A. to eliminate large sections of the original analysis that supported regulation, including a finding that tough regulation of motor vehicle emissions could produce $ 500 billion to $ 2 trillion in economic benefits over the next 32 years.

Of course that will have «upsides and down sides» — not only environmental, but social and economic, and some people will experience more of the upside (e.g. rural villages in Africa and India benefiting from off - grid PV) and some will experience more of the downside (e.g. investors in large, centralized fossil fuel or nuclear power plants that will not be able to compete with dirt - cheap PV).

-- Reset economic incentives so that innovation is driven by wider societal interests and reaches the large proportion of the global population that is currently not benefitting from these innovations.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) press release of July 6, 2016 was headlined «Canada can integrate large amounts of wind energy reliably, cost - effectively, says report» followed by the industry trade association's assertion that «Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability — and at the same time realize economic and environmental benefits».

You know a lot of focus on economic incentives for the greenies gets thrown around, but there is a consistent lack of skepticism for all the (much larger) groups benefiting from the status quo.