Sentences with phrase «us policy institutions»

, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.
Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.
The RAND report doesn't surprise another independent research and public policy institution.
Opposition diminished only after Keppel agreed to house the program in a state policy institution, the Education Commission of the States, and to report results in no smaller unit than «region.»
As Steve so pungently notes, the previously unreported source of the «studies» is in fact Greenpeace and it shows that the IPCC as a supposedly science based policy institution has been completely and thoroughly coopted and corrupted.
We know enough now to say climate is changing, and to see the opportunity for innovating our public dialogue, our policy institutions, and our scientific processes.
While the former used to be a nearly purely scientific institution, the latter is a U.N. policy institution.
Officials in different policy institutions, governments and agribusiness repeatedly confirm that the question is a political «non-starter» for many countries.
Randy Roberts, founder of Law and Policy Institutions Guide, an index of legal resources on the Web, has added a new feature to the site, the Law and Policy Institutions Article Database.
Law and Policy Institutions is looking for a diversity of perspectives and is accepting electronic submissions from legal practitioners, academia and organizations.»
Preferred qualifications: • MBA / MS / PhD or equivalent • Experience of working in key US policy institutions, i.e. — NIH, DHHS, etc. • Experience of placing national and local change, in the global context to bring a broader perspective into policy discussions and promote global convergence where possible and desirable.
Longstanding contacts in European universities, higher education institutions, research institutions and policy institutions were used to find partners.

Not exact matches

The Whitehorse «progress report» was the latest in small adjustments to Bank of Canada's communications policy that is making the institution less a black box.
Those federal rules, which double down on restrictions adopted in 2014 and stern warnings to lenders issued by OSFI earlier this summer, require banks to qualify borrowers at higher interest rates, impose additional limits on mortgages for buyers with small down payments, and compel financial institutions to share the risk by taking out insurance policies on low - ratio mortgages.
Rather than the Fed pursuing a policy resulting in some steady rate of growth in the money supply, I would suggest that the Fed attempt to produce a steady rate of growth in the sum of the credit it creates and the credit created by depository institutions, i.e., commercial banks, savings associations and credit unions.
Yet Macron offered momentary comfort to foreign policy veterans of past administrations — the «establishment» Trump has disdained — who fear for the future of institutions such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.
Unless the institution you've chosen is an online bank, open the account in person, says Viveca Ware, senior vice president of regulatory policy for the Independent Community Bankers of America.
We have a system that, quite heroically, allows for a dramatic change in policy direction without upending the governmental institutions that have served this nation well for 12 score years.
The institution in the 1980s and 1990s was the champion of the «Washington Consensus,» the name given to the kit of free - market policies the IMF would force on any country in need of a bailout.
Julie Dickson, superintendent of Canada's chief banking regulator (the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, or OSFI), said in a recent speech that although most banks already have real estate underwriting policies, «we had noticed cases where board approved policies were not being followed.»
President - elect Donald Trump's «America first» philosophy rejects the traditional Wilsonian approach to foreign policy centered on US - backed international alliances and institutions and instead sees multilateral institutions and international affairs as transactional.
As a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policy.
Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.
Obviously, it should be considered the most basic kind of self - preserving behavior on the part of a financial institution to maintain a strong cybersecurity policy and enforce it, but we are where we are.
«If choosing a major is solely based on students» wants, some majors will be overcrowded and others will have difficulty enrolling enough students,» Lu reportedly said, adding that other institutions have adopted similar policies and that among the 400 or so students who have to leave their majors to fate, the highest achievers can apply to change their specializations after a year of study.
The Philippine central bank has set up a separate cyber security surveillance division to craft cyber security policies and conduct surveillance work, monitor cyber threats and test the ability of supervised institutions to manage cyber security issues, Nestor Espenilla central bank deputy governor in charge of banking supervision, said in a lecture organized by the bank.
An emerging focus for startups, established institutions, and policy makers is to facilitate access to new payments providers in a way that boosts competition while also creating greater choice and convenience for the end user.
Its alcohol policy recommends member institutions to «prohibit on - site alcohol advertising during all preseason, regular season, conference and postseason intercollegiate events».
Such policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcasting.
Under President George H.W. Bush, Powell oversaw policy on financial institutions and debt markets as an undersecretary of the Treasury.
Of course, just which matters ought to be left to judgment on a case - by - case basis, and which ought to be categorically determined as a matter of policy, is a hard problem for those who design institutions of all kinds.
This circle would be easier to square if policy elites had performed better over the last 15 years, and could more credibly say that they had created the public institutions necessary for people to improve their own lives.
Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.
The exemption requires Financial Institutions to provide contract disclosures and contracts to Retirement Investors (Section II), adopt written policies and procedures (Section IV), make disclosures to Retirement Investors and on a publicly available Web site (Section IV), maintain records necessary to prove they have met the PTE conditions (Section V).).
These commenters assert that although financial institutions have worked to put in place the policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the new rules, [4] there is still considerable work left to be done to implement the new rules in a proper and responsible manner and without Start Printed Page 16904causing further confusion and disruption to retirement investors.
After all, these are the very institutions in charge of monetary policy (a fancy word for the size and growth rate of the money supply).
Those countries with less - developed institutions and financial systems, limited policy credibility, greater foreign currency debt and / or more precarious economic situations are certainly more exposed than others to external shocks.
Depending on your financial institution's policies, your funds will usually be credited to your account within a single business day.
The Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship provides opportunities for early and mid-career professionals to serve in professional placements in a foreign government ministry or institution.
This group meets twice a decade to study ways to improve the nation's multifaceted financial system, and has historically galvanized the nation's financial institutions into action, playing a leading role in China's domestic and foreign fiscal policies.
If the institution is able to effect a change in corporate policy, its ten shares will produce a $ 100 paper gain when the stock price rises to reflect the company's new value.
For other SF Repos, ADIs are typically expected to use securities that could be held in fulfilment of APRA's liquidity policy for the institution.
In the workplace, individual supervisors should take steps to humanize their institution's policies and help their male employees respond to family needs.
As crowdfunding accelerates at an unprecedented rate, it's impacting government policy, informing enterprise innovation and changing the role of financial institutions around the world.
Current tenure and promotion policies at 44 Canadian higher education institutions emphasize research, teaching and service to the institution.
Amid economic expansion at home, the Federal Reserve proceeded to tighten monetary policy so much that it threatened the profitability of financial institutions.
«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»
What you can do on your side is equally ambitious: keep building competitive and dynamic businesses; keep the collaboration going between educational institutions and companies; and keep sharing your good ideas with policy - makers.
Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a private, tax - exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues.
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