Sentences with phrase «us economic competitiveness»

Over the long term, our economic competitiveness begins to erode.

The agency is very well - positioned now, and it is strong internally, and there is an understanding of the interconnection between small business, entrepreneurship and economic competitiveness.

It will continue to be open to solutions, supported by fishermen, that strengthen the economic competitiveness of this traditional pillar of our coastal economy.

Warren Buffett has called rising healthcare costs a «tapeworm» on US economic competitiveness.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

But a variety of signs and signals indicate that this malaise, while relatively inconsequential in the near term, could hamper Canada's mid to long - term economic competitiveness.

The business case for clean energy goes beyond economic competitiveness: In countries such as China and India, delivering more power without adding to the smog that already chokes big cities is paramount.

«The efficient flow of goods and people directly affects the economic competitiveness of our region, our province, and our country.

But as has been pointed out many times on RPE, the Nordics manage to rank highly on economic competitiveness rankings while have superior social outcomes, especially in regards to poverty and inequality.

A thorough analysis of the region's economic competitiveness among other states and regions focused on the tenets of an «Innovation Economy.»

«Hong Kong has an opportunity to proactively use its autonomy to further strengthen its impressive economic competitiveness, as well as its inherent value proposition in the eyes of foreign partners,» he said.

The ultimate result is that it dramatically affects the ability to do long term transformation, dramatically effects GDP growth and economic competitiveness for society.»

Milwaukee is also home to the international headquarters of six Fortune 500 companies and was recently selected to join the Global Cities Initiative as a result of its commitment to promote global trade and economic competitiveness.

«This harmonization should facilitate the development by manufacturers in both countries of world - class front - line workers with the skills needed able to meet the dual challenges of global economic competitiveness and accelerating technological change.»

That the Government of Canada undertake an independent comprehensive review of Canada's tax system with the goal of reducing complexity, ensuring economic competitiveness, and enhancing overall fairness.

This builds off of Part Iwhere we discussed the gender disparities in venture capital, and how solving for those issues creates great financial opportunities for investors, as well as assuring our country's economic competitiveness.

«After decades of doubting China's innovation potential, the United States now fears the rapid pace of China's technological catchup, and sees Chinese technology as a major (perhaps even existential) threat to US economic competitiveness,» Matt Sheehan, a fellow at the Paulson Institute, wrote in a blog post last month.

The phase out of the PST on electricity is an important step in ensuring the tax code does not impeded the economic competitiveness of our province.

TORONTO, March 16, 2016 — MaRS Studio Y is spearheading the inaugural National Youth Leadership and Innovation Strategy Summit, bringing together top young leaders and innovative organizations from across the country to architect the first national plan for engaging youth leaders to strengthen Canada's economic competitiveness.

• «The ferocity about economic competitiveness, its promotion into a standard by which to measure things it can not measure... is resulting in a loss of respect for ordinary work and a soft contempt for ordinary people,» Wieseltier continues.

Ulster University in Northern Ireland has been awarded funding of almost $ 400,000 as part of a larger $ 2.6 million research grant to develop new mixing process technologies for milk powder hydration, which aims to significantly enhance the economic competitiveness of the Irish dairy industry.

One of the chief strategies to hold back such pressures is to increase the economic competitiveness of the enterprises that rely on maintenance of the natural forest.

The [NSLP] was developed out of that, so in many ways hunger and nutrition — in addition to being an education issue, and an economic competitiveness issue — is also a national security issue.

His economic competitiveness review was criticised for its lack of green credentials with its support for motorway and airport expansion and sympathy for greenbelt development.

Mr Redwood, who led the Conservatives» review on economic competitiveness, attacked Labour's «doctrine of equivalence» between date rape and so - called stranger rape, which he said he said «led to jury scepticism about many rape claims».

CIHT members plan, design, build, operate and maintain best - in - class transport systems and infrastructure, whilst respecting the imperatives of improving safety, ensuring economic competitiveness and minimising environmental impact.

There are also policy actions which we have to take - investment climate reforms to improve business and economic competitiveness, focus on developing MSMEs, deepening long term savings through pensions, insurance and sovereign savings, land reform to eliminate constraints in time and cost around land transactions (including a review of the governor's consent requirement), and actions to reduce inflation, interest rates and business operating costs.

CIHT members design, build, operate and maintain best - in - class transport systems and infrastructure, whilst respecting the imperatives of improving safety, ensuring economic competitiveness and minimising environmental impact.

Raab argued for, in The Future of Conservatism: Values Revisited, a further round of trade union reform arguing that «Luddite union leaders» block vital reforms needed to boost UK economic competitiveness.

Appealing, for example, to those Senators who, while eager to withdraw from Afghanistan and avoid future such «entanglements,» nonetheless remain anxious about the future of American leadership and economic competitiveness, Kerry argued that «deploying diplomats today [to protect the national interest] is much cheaper than deploying troops tomorrow.»

That Spain had to control its levels of private debt, Italy its levels of government spending and Portugal and Greece needed to regain economic competitiveness, were evident well before the economic crisis began in 2007.

Department of Transportation Acting Commissioner Paul A. Karas said, «Governor Cuomo recognizes that regional economic competitiveness and growing communities revolve around providing strategic and innovative investments in transportation infrastructure.

«The significant restructuring of the corporate franchise tax, broad - based business tax rate reductions, and expedited business relief from the Section 18 - a energy assessment will also improve the state's economic competitiveness and help the economy grow.

It comes after a summer of prolonged campaigning by the scientific community warning of the fundamental importance of research to Britain's longer - term economic competitiveness.

«The federal tax plan is a devastating and targeted attack on New Yorkers that threatens the economic competitiveness of our state,» Cuomo said.

We strongly urge Albany to continue the progress made in improving New York's economic competitiveness while focusing on pro-growth initiatives as budget negotiations enter this final stretch.»

In the name of what - in the name of economic competitiveness?

A new approach for our schools by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The CBI report has recognised the important link between high - quality education systems and economic competitiveness.

«Not just to not have to play defense, but to work proactively with members of the legislature and the governor's office to reduce that tax burden, to try to reclaim some measure of economic competitiveness in New York State and put people back to work.»

We urge the state legislature to adopt its general parameters, while addressing the issues highlighted above that will help improve the state's overall economic competitiveness.

As Cuomo himself has said in other contexts, a high income - tax rate undermines New York's economic competitiveness.

Ruth Kelly today unveiled the government's new transport strategy, designed to increase economic competitiveness without harming the environment.

In a statement, Cuomo said, «These investments are critical to our transportation system and essential for community growth and regional economic competitiveness.»

Mr Clark believes there is a growing consensus among three groups that come to the debate from different directions: the green lobby; people worried about security of energy supplies (who do not want to become dependent on Russian imports); and those with concerns about economic competitiveness.

The comptroller's first - blush analysis focused heavily on how the Trump proposal could affect New York's (mainly downstate) six - figure middle class — but virtually ignored the plan's broader implications for the state's finances and economic competitiveness.

While we have criticized some of the specific recommendations of the Governor Cuomo's other tax advisory commission, the Tax Reform and Fairness Commission, chaired by investment banker Peter Solomon and former Comptroller McCall, that Commission's report shows that it is possible to implement tax cuts that make sense from a tax fairness and / or an economic competitiveness perspective without reducing revenue.

«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»

The council believes raising the fast food minimum wage won't necessarily combat poverty and could hurt the state's overall economic competitiveness by imposing «significant new costs on employers.»

John Redwood, who heads the economic competitiveness group, has broken away from the kindly attendants in white coats who accompany him through public life, and is crying from the rooftops for a commitment to tax cuts.

She has spoken nationally about investing in our nation's infrastructure to improve economic competitiveness and create jobs.