Sentences with phrase «local growth which»

On 14 June 2017 Theresa May appointed him the role of Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth which deals with the project among mayors and devolution.

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Apple saw itself displaced once again from its No. 4 position by local brand Xiaomi, which was the brand that saw the biggest growth in shipments — by 37 percent to 12 million units sold.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

For instance, the federal government's Community Development Block Grants, which are dispensed by local communities for economic growth, require that contractors hired by the borrower pay the prevailing wage rate for that location.

Dickey's growth plans for Gannett — which owns 107 other newspapers and their affiliated online properties — entail owning as many local market media properties as strategically feasible.

But the growth of Novell and local area networks created new opportunities, which the established, first - generation competitors, engrossed in traditional products, couldn't easily take advantage of.

In the 2006 Budget, the government promised to reduce the deficit by $ 3 billion per year; to reduce the federal debt - to - GDP ratio to 25 per cent by 2012 - 13; to eliminate the total government sector debt (which includes the federal, provincial and local governments as well as the Canada and Quebec pension plans) by 2021; and finally, to keep the growth in program expenses below the rate of growth in nominal GDP.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

Fifteen local startups were on this year's Inc. 5000 list, which ranks companies by revenue growth over the past three years.

The trend is also helping spur growth at other local online retailers such as Karmaloop.com, which sells urban streetware over the Web and is also considering a public stock offering move to Wall Street in its near future.

Qualtrics helps local governments gather workforce growth data to identify which industries are growing the most and determine where to invest and appropriate funds.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue issued the following statement today in response to U.S. Senate passage of S. 2155, the «Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act,» which will alleviate regulatory burdens for America's local and community banks:

The change programme «Connected for Growth», which we started implementing in the autumn last year, is clearly bearing fruit and is making Unilever more agile and closer to the local markets, unlocking both further growth and mGrowth», which we started implementing in the autumn last year, is clearly bearing fruit and is making Unilever more agile and closer to the local markets, unlocking both further growth and mgrowth and margin.

So, it's probably a logical extension — it would be a dramatic growth in marketplaces where currencies can be exchanged versus one another similar, to the foreign currency market that exists globally, which is, by the way, the largest market in the entire world — foreign currency transactions, trading currencies against one another, or exchanging them one another for different economic entities around the world — to be able to facilitate the transactions that they are trying to do in their local jurisdictions.

«With the addition to the Alliance family of Flexado, and Ramon ten Tije, we have given the strength of Alliance's global reach to a local team which can more easily interact and support our Membership and its growth in the future.»

Since the late 1960s there has been a rapid growth of independently syndicated evangelical or fundamentalist programs which purchase their air - time from local stations and raise support from their audience.

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

Economic expansion in this core was associated with two other dominant trends: growth in population (the so - called demographic transition, which both facilitated, and was facilitated by, industrialization) and the geographic inclusion of previously isolated, local, and ethnic sectors of the population into the commercial and industrial labor force.

Mr Ottaway said in the US, the initial backlash against craft beer brands which had sold out to large conglomerates often resulted in a short - term sales dip in their local area, but it was soon overtaken by faster growth overall as the enhanced distribution channels and bigger marketing clout kicked in.

These are estimates, so I checked past government forecast figures for HS1, which predicted growth of # 500m to the local economy.

We also propose decentralising tax raising powers to local authorities, which the evidence shows boosts growth and improves public sector efficiency.

«My understanding is that if we can commit to staying under the two percent growth rate in state government, which I think is perfectly reasonable and which we have mandated local governments do with the property tax cap, if we do that we cut the $ 4.4 billion deficit down to $ 1.7 billion,» Jacobs said.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Provide for the full expensing of new equipment and technology purchases up front rather than deducting the cost over several years, which would lead to increased economic growth and incentivize local investment.

This further distorted financial markets, increased local government debt, improved infrastructure rather than skills and delayed the growth of private domestic consumption, which everyone agrees must replace investment and exports as the driver of Chinese growth.

Though the proposal has echos of the «Buffalo Billion» — a program that targeted private - sector job growth through specific state investment — this program Miner backs is aimed at upgrading Syracuse's roads, bridges and sewer systems which are increasingly costly to maintain on the local level.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the success of the state's sixth regional sustainability conference, which brought together community development experts, local elected officials and business leaders to share successful economic growth strategies in the Finger Lakes Region.

«When we agreed to take over Medicaid growth, which was a huge, huge investment for us... it was premised on the desire to help local governments live within their property tax cap,» she said.

They build on the idea of local enterprise partnerships, which have not delivered as much growth locally as hoped for.

As shown in Figure 3, for more than two decades Medicaid spending in New York and nationwide rose at a pace well above the general cost indicator for state and local governments; the near doubling of the price index between 1991 and 2011 was more than matched by the greater than quadrupling of national Medicaid costs and an approximately 350 percent increase in New York's Medicaid expenses.7 (The more rapid growth in other states likely reflected their expansion of eligibility, which New York had already implemented.)

The rest of the state's localities are subject to a 2 percent cap on the growth of their property taxes, which they can override at the local government level, under a law enacted during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first year in office in 2011.

«When we agreed to take over Medicaid growth, which was a huge, huge investment for us — $ 3 billion that we wouldn't be spending now that we are — it was premised on the desire to help local governments live within their property tax cap,» outgoing state budget director Mary Beth Labate said two weeks ago.

In 2011, I worked with the Legislature to establish New York State's Property Tax Cap, which establishes a limit on the annual growth of property taxes levied by local governments and school districts to two percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.

DiNapoli's pension «amortization» plan, which also is open to local governments, has capped the growth in pension contribution rates at one percentage point of salary base per year since 2010.

Corbyn missed the chance to set out plans to enable city regions to retain local tax revenues for investment in jobs and growth — something for which many Labour council leaders have called.

DiNapoli in an interview in August indicated he would keep the contribution rates the same for local governments, which have struggled in recent years to raise revenue amid a cap on property taxes, the flat growth of aid to municipalities and mandated state spending requirements.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government released its latest state and local governments fiscal report showing relatively strong growth in tax revenues in the first quarter of 2017, which is largely attributable to income tax growth in California and New York.

Local governments will also have to deal with a declining property - tax cap, which for 2016 will limit tax growth to less than 1 percent.

Picente said the project, which helps local teachers inspire and educate students in key skill areas needed by local high - growth employers, is supported by the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE, BOCES and National Grid.

New York has had universal prekindergarten on the books since 1997, but it has never been close to fully funded; recessions curtailed the program's growth, and many local districts, which are required to pay for part of it themselves, never bothered.

The report offers an economic glimpse of Washington Heights and Inwood, which saw a 6 percent growth in residents between 2010 and 2013, bringing the local population to a record 218,500 people.

The year - over-year growth reflects «increasing consumer demand» for local food and beverage products, «which supports New York's agricultural and tourism industries,» Cuomo's office said in a news release.

«The recent statewide growth in and impact of tax exempt entities severely erodes the tax base of local governments and school districts, unfairly transfers the tax burden to remaining homeowners and businesses, and further compromises New York's position as a fair and competitive environment in which to live and invest,» Teresi said in October as part of his budget address.

VanLuven made the issue of growth one of the three major points of emphasis of his speech, which lasted 15 minutes and was held at town hall amid a crowd that included several other local elected officials and members of his family.

OOC is governed by a volunteer, 24 - member Board of Directors comprised of local business and community leaders who strive for economic growth policies which result in project development.

According to Vice president Dr. Bawumia, government has chosen a strategic shift and «we want to build a Ghana which looks to the use of its own resources and their proper management as the way to engineer social and economic growth in our country...» For him, a Ghana beyond aid means mobilizing and leveraging domestic savings and revenues transparently; expand financial inclusion with credit services and saving systems for all, especially women; and financing through local capital markets in local currencies.

Local papers are, however, useful sources of business news such as company growth, innovations, or awards which will help you identify smaller companies with promising futures or interests in developing markets in Europe, as they will particularly value your language skills and experience of working overseas.

And then they would wander into the retail stores, which Apple was just launching about then in their local shopping mall and they would see a Mac and that really started the Mac sales growth; and the iPod laid the foundation for the iPhone, which you know, was always sold as part iPod, the iPhone has the iPod in it, so it is also an iPod, so playing off the iPod's popularity, and then with the iPhone's popularity, it sort of cascaded from there.

This happens because the loss of blood flow in a vessel causes the local oxygen level to drop, which stimulates local production of vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, a protein which in most tissues causes the growth of new blood vessels to repair damage.