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«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

Hsiang was Lead Economist for the 2014 analysis Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus, the scientific analysis behind the Risky Business report published by Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson, Thomas Steyer and colleagues.

«The benefits of global trade are far - reaching,» said Bodhi Ganguli, Lead Economist for Dun & Bradstreet's Country Risk Services.

With a more apples - to - apples comparison controlling for such factors, «the gap all but disappears,» said Katie Bardaro, lead economist for salary data site PayScale.com.

Not exact matches

Lawrence Summers, the Harvard economist and former U.S. treasury secretary, says Merkel should commit to leading a drive to boost Europe's economic growth, which Greece will desperately need if it is to generate enough money to pay for its debts.

Some business owners argue that raising the minimum wage will lead to higher prices for consumers, and some economists argue that it could depress job growth or even end up eliminating positions as it leads to more automation.

«The strides airlines are making to improve the flight experience — from varying fares that can fit any budget, in - flight entertainment options, gourmet food offerings and advancements in technology, both on the ground and in the air — are resonating with customers and leading to more Americans traveling more often by air,» said John Heimlich, vice president and chief economist at Airlines for America.

It's simple: academic economists have failed to allow for the possibility that our models are leading us astray because they are inadequate for current economic conditions.

As Shiller wrote in 2011 in Project Syndicate, an online opinion forum featuring leading economists., the market for farmlands isn't nearly as big as the housing market or stock market, for that matter.

Columbia University economist Jeffery Sachs charged that in pulling U.S. support for the Paris accord, Trump was not only forfeiting global leadership, but leading America right out of the civilized world.

«While the headlines oftentimes go to the large - sized companies, The PayScale Index for the second consecutive quarter showed wage growth for small companies outpacing medium and large companies,» Katie Bardaro, lead economist, PayScale, explained on the company's blog.

«If you're able to find a job that to you seems better and worth a switch, on average at least that seems to lead to longer careers,» said co-author Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research.

For instance, Dean Baker, a liberal economist, sees the stock market rise as a double - edged sword, leading to the bursting of the bubble in 2001 and perhaps helping shape a subsequent decade of only modest job growth.

Economists led by Jan Hatzius at Goldman Sachs are even more optimistic, saying this week that they are looking for a 4.1 percent expansion in 2018.

When critics like Brian Riedl, the campaign economist for the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, fret that offering everyone a good job will lead to «pressure to introduce a higher wage or certain benefits that the private sector doesn't offer,» proponents say: Yeah, it will; that's exactly the point.

«Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R. & D., even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions,» concluded the study, which was conducted by a team of three economists that included a former Bush administration official.

Gross domestic product grew 1.7 percent in the second quarter, though favorable trade deficit figures on Tuesday led some economists to boost their estimates for future revisions.

The report was led by Dave Park, an independent economist and former Chief Economist for The Vancouver Board economist and former Chief Economist for The Vancouver Board Economist for The Vancouver Board of Trade.

Editor's note: After Uber's chief economist, Jonathan Hall, publicly criticized the MIT study's findings for being based on «inconsistent logic,» its lead co-author acknowledged that the study's conclusions may be inaccurate and said he plans to run a new analysis to recalculate drivers» wages.

That's why CCPA - BC senior economist Iglika Ivanova asked some of BC's leading thinkers for their «one idea» to create good jobs.

«Exports to China led the overall growth thanks to demand for semiconductor - related equipment and for general machinery as the country is stepping up infrastructure investment,» said Toru Suehiro, senior market economist at Mizuho Securities Co..

Economists at the U.S. - based bank, led by Nupur Gupta, cut their estimates for inflation - adjusted output for the fourth quarter of 2016, citing a sharper - than - initially - estimated fall in consumer sentiment and industrial production amid the demonetization drive.

But economists note China still depends on state - led construction spending and other investment for nearly half its economic growth.

«We should be seeing some serious upticks in orders if the tax cut is going to lead to the promised jump in investment,» Dean Baker, an economist from the liberal - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, said in an email.

Other economists don't agree that you need $ 350,000 to be considered rich, however an amount of money that exceeds $ 200,000 per year is enough for a family to lead a more than comfortable lifestyle; this means having the chance to live in a big house, send the kids to private schools, have enough money to travel internationally, own at least 2 cars, and have no debt except a mortgage which will help them build equity.

Mining companies led a decline in European stocks as manufacturing data missed economists» estimates for the region and China.

«There's not such the dichotomy between the real economy and stock market as we are sometimes led to believe by the debate in China,» Louis Kuijs, the chief economist for greater China at Royal Bank of Scotland, said this week.

It wasn't long ago that economists were worrying about the threat of a populist takeover in the Europe and predicting an investment led boom in the U.S.. However, since the start of the year, ratings agencies have upgraded their growth forecasts for Europe's largest economies and slashed its predictions for the U.S. Moody's is expecting...

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With more than thirty years of experience as an economist, and as a leading thinker on the impact of government impact on business, Moore has written extensively on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation.

Biblical law offers a means for limiting the ravages of the disease of avarice, and as a result it is the Church, not economists, that must lead in offering the corrective.

Lester Thurow is a leading liberal Democratic economist, and I have no doubt about his concern for people and for justice.

The overwhelming support of economists and those many other academics who follow their lead can not be taken for granted for a brazen American imperialism.

While it may come as a surprise to many, this difference in emphasis actually has the effect of leading our economists and businessmen to preach a message for the world's poor that is charged with greater hope than what is typically taught by many of our leading theologians and preachers.

But a recent book by international economist Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, has helped me grasp some of the underlying forces that are driving the leaders away from the led.

He is a leading economist, fund manager and policy adviser who has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the RBA, and was a director of the Menzies Research Centre.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Economists including former chief economist at the IMF, Olivier Blanchard [11], and many leading civil society organisations [12] are now calling for a new approach which is being called: «QE for People».

The case for that rests on the assumption that there is «no alternative», which is at odds with the views of many leading economists.

Victory in the 2010 general election will be a poisoned chalice for the winner, a leading US economist has warned.

A report prepared by Dr. Kent Gardner, Principal and Chief Economist for the Rochester - based Center for Governmental Research, showed that a collaborative effort is needed to help reduce the amount of lead in homes in Erie County.

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

«The cost of asthma is one of the most important measures of the burden of the disease,» said Tursynbek Nurmagambetov, PhD, lead study author and health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But economist Lester Lave and engineers Chris Hendrickson and Francis Clay McMichael worry that mass production of lead - acid batteries for electric cars might reverse that trend.

Gary Yohe is an economist at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. vice president, Al Gore.

Some leading climate scientists and economists say this decoupling of emissions and economic growth has been in progress in the developed world for quite some time.

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Moreover, the book's format - lengthy essays by Krueger and Heckman (who teamed up with fellow economist Pedro Carneiro, now of University College London, for his contribution), followed by commentaries from five scholars, each with a favorite bone (or nit) to pick, then by extended responses and final rejoinders from the lead authors - makes it hard to find the forest for the trees.

Also arguing the government should make it compulsory for schools to measure wellbeing was Gus O'Donnell, an economist who led the civil service under David Cameron.