Sentences with phrase «while private sector»

The state also gained 7,400 non-farm jobs in December, while the private sector gained -LSB-...]
While private sector work is readily available, many drug & alcohol counselors work for the government through health departments and welfare agencies.
Public sector companies witnessed a growth of 14.42 per cent at Rs 37,607.56 crore while private sector firms earned premium of Rs 34,956.86 crore, a rise of 25.41 per cent over the same duration a year ago.
While private sector development and job creation are not new aspects of development policy, there is growing recognition that global development challenges are multi-faceted and complex, requiring collaborative, multi-stakeholder alliances between all sectors of society.
Therefore, the report notes that identifying the barriers to implementation of low - cost, off - grid solar solutions is a crucial priority for policymakers, while the private sector can increasingly play a role in catalyzing the uptake of off - grid solar solutions, underscoring the importance of a suitable enabling environment for new technologies, as well as strategic planning that clearly delineates the role for both grid and off - grid approaches
Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.
While the private sector has moved to shift the risk of pension plans to employees with a move to defined contribution plans, many in the public sector have managed to hold on to those plans.
However, in no way does it follow, as many Hayek disciples seem to believe, that government is, per se, bad and unproductive while the private sector is, per se, good and productive.
That's right: While the private sector slashed jobs, trimmed benefits, renegotiated contracts, cut pay, and sometimes declared bankruptcy, the education part of the public sector actually fattened.
While the private sector contribution rate has been relatively flat over the four years, the rate for public school teachers has markedly increased, doubling the gap between them from one - fifth to two - fifths.
Since the end of world war 2 the US population has increased some 100 to 110 %, in same period public sector jobs are up over 500 % while the private sector job losses need no explanation.
Campaigners said that will leave the public sector with all the expensive, complex services while the private sector took the cheaper, easier alternatives — effectively gutting the NHS and privatising the majority of services.
Public sector spending on violence containment spending accounts for 10.8 % of GDP while private sector spending is 4.2 % of GDP.
While the private sector will be doing the hiring, governments have a vital role in creating the environment for success.

Not exact matches

Private - sector economists are pointing to a surfeit of positive data, while Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz remains wary (or, as Poloz himself put it at press conference last week, «decidedly neutral»).
In the four years up to 2016, the UAE digital and technology sector saw 234 private investment deals amounting to over US$ 1.1 billion, while in 2016, the UAE topped the Middle East and North Africa (M...
While 76 percent of full - time private - sector workers have access to an employer - sponsored retirement plan through their jobs, self - employed workers must seek other ways to begin saving.
We all have a role to play when it comes to improving the health of our communities, and those of us on the front lines of care must unite with the resources of the private and nonprofit sectors, while leveraging the power of those in leadership to make a difference.
While I'm seeing it firsthand in the exam room, leaders in government, the private sector, and nonprofits should also stand up and recognize the problem.
That's because, while the Canadian economy is very sensitive to whatever happens to U.S. consumers and private companies, we're not quite so closely linked to America's public sector.
While it may seem like a legal question — and it is one — the solution will most likely come by way of consumer driven private sector innovation.
Some cities may need to be pushed into bankruptcy, while others may just need a healthy dose of private - sector medicine, said TransPro Consulting CEO Mark Aesch.
While those actions are targeting the private sector, decisions taken by the government during this year's stock market rout — something that wiped around $ 5 trillion from the value of Chinese listed firms — help explain why looking for signs of stock market manipulation remains a popular investment strategy, and not just from local investors.
While CMHC's dominant role selling mortgage insurance may have been a necessity 60 years ago, the expected flood of new private - sector competitors suggests that time has passed.
While teaching organizational behavior at Cornell University for more than 35 years, I've had the privilege of training numerous young people who have now moved on to be leaders in the private and public sector.
While petroleum will remain the primary economic engine for MENA for decades to come, experts say renewable energy is gaining substantial new interest and investment from both government leaders and private - sector energy firms across the region and beyond.
While only 11 % of employees in Canada's private sector belong to a defined benefit pension plan, 43 of the top 100 CEOs have a define benefit pension plan worth an average of $ 1.39 million a year.
Private sector economists have now revised down their forecasts of real GDP growth for 2015 by about 0.6 - percentage points, while the IMF cut its from 2.2 % to just 1.5 %.
Canada did so as part of a broad alliance called Mission Innovation — a «global partnership aimed at doubling government investment in clean energy innovation over five years, while encouraging private sector leadership in clean energy.»
While the Fed has laid out its framework for assessing financial stability risks and mentioned specific metrics of leverage and private sector balance sheet health, there is uncertainty with regard to the threshold of those metrics that would trigger additional monetary tightening.
While these figures are undoubtedly good news for the private sector battered by high unemployment and anemic growth, it's far too early to celebrate, says Russell Investments» chief economist Mike Dueker, who adds that recent unemployment figures are in part the result of people no longer looking for work.
In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).
While the world's largest companies often dominate headlines, small businesses remain the lifeblood of our economy, employing nearly 58 million Americans and making up almost half of the nation's private sector jobs.
While we may be waiting a long time for government to lead on positive social and environmental change, Certified B Corporations and benefit corporations are demonstrating that the private sector can create higher quality jobs, stronger communities and a healthier environment today.
But after the Korean War broke out, U.S. overseas military spending accounted for the entire payments deficit during the 1950s and «60s and early «70s, while private - sector trade and investment were exactly in balance.
Blass noted in the letter that while ICI shares «the state's objective of increasing retirement plan coverage for private - sector workers,» the goal «must be achieved in a cost - effective way that reflects the realities of the work force and retirement savings.»
While the BOJ has no imminent intention to debut an official digital currency, the bank is reportedly supporting a private sector project to develop J - Coin, a cryptocurrency that aims to wean Japan off of physical cash and which would be pegged in value to the yen.
The number of persons finding employment in government jobs rose by 9,000, while private - sector payrolls increased by 252,000.
A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) will be issued on September 23 and «will widen the process, encouraging the continued participation of past respondents while inviting additional private sector interests to present their visions for the Southport property,» the PRPA said.
«Before the crisis, public debt was fairly low, and while private debt — and in particular mortgage debt — was a problem, private sector deleveraging is happening quickly.»
While that plan has been in place, B.C. has had Canada's second worst private sector job growth.
While new home sales slipped in March, private sector credit increased by 0.5 %, coming in ahead of a forecasted 0.4 % rise, following February's 0.4 % increase.
China's private sector PMI figures supported market risk appetite through the Asian session, while expectations of a dovish RBA weighed on the Aussie Dollar ahead of this afternoon's inflation figures out of the U.S that could see another bounce in the Dollar
These concerns might recently have been exacerbated by changes in the pattern of corporate financing: in countries in which the swap spread has increased the most — the US and UK — growth in private sector bond issuance has been relatively large, while net equity issuance has been low (or even negative as in the United States).
Today the USA has created one of the largest debts ever recorded, both the public and private sector are heavily indebted, and much of that debt was created while global central banks were keeping rates at record lows over the last decade.
Meanwhile, spending on research and development in the private sector has been increasing at a clip of 4.9 % a year since 2007, up from 4.1 % the decade prior, while public and private R&D as a share of GDP recently hit an all - time high.
«One of the reasons why economic growth has been weaker in this expansion than others is a lack of government spending now I think that in the short - term negative in the long run I think a move in resources from the government sector to the private sector is positive but it takes a while for that to manifest itself in stronger overall GDP growth».
More recently, wage growth has shown signs of stabilisation, with growth in the private sector wage price index unchanged for the past six quarters, while a broader measure of wage pressures, the growth in average earnings per hour, has picked up of late.
Canada's «Achilles heel» is the country's lagging labour productivity, and while governments can help turn that around, it's ultimately up to the private sector to boost it, Scotiabank CEO Brian Porter said Tuesday.
State workers receive a platinum - level health care plan at a heavily subsidized cost, while Illinoisans in the private sector paying for those plans see their own premiums skyrocket.
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