Sentences with phrase «about economic development for»

«Maybe I sound Pollyanna, but I see that as much more about people seeing the governor doing the right thing for a region, and by inviting the key leaders to a table to talk about economic development for the region, if they support him politically because of that, it's because they like what he's doing.»

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We haven't joined any organization specifically, but we've been involved in many conversations with Airbnb and other companies about joint efforts to support the peer economy, which we believe can be a powerful engine for sustainable economic development.

«If we're going to compete for the next HQ2 project out there, we know we're going to have to fundamentally rethink our economy, and that's what this is all about,» Rob Dixon, head of the Missouri Department of Economic Development told The Journal.

Next, Diane Sawyer and the 60 Minutes crew showed up to do a story about the Women's Economic Development Corp., a program for women entrepreneurs in which Gordon was involved.

Your local economic development authority not only can provide information about the real estate market but may also offer incentives for opening or relocating a business.

Gregory So, secretary for commerce and economic development of Hong Kong, talks about how the city has to boost its cultural attractions.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), seniors in this country experience poverty at a rate that is about a quarter of that experienced by their American and Japanese counterparts.

But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated that these kinds of profit - shifting practices amounted to about US$ 100 billion - US$ 240 billion in lost tax revenue each year, equivalent to up to 10 per cent of global corporate income tax revenue.

According to recent statistics from the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA), there are about 7,000 business incubators and accelerators worldwide, with over 90 percent being non-profit and focused on incubator programs for community economic development.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to sucEconomic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to suceconomic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to suceconomic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

Most of these deals go through a privatized economic development agency called JobsOhio, which doesn't require as much transparency as a public agency about what taxpayers are getting for their money.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Green said those worried about China's economic slowdown are overreacting, as the differences in economic development between China's regions could provide a strong engine for economic growth.

The ink was barely dry on the headlines about Oscar Mayer leaving Madison, and the Democrats were already blaming Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. for not doing enough to keep the Madison plant open.

Thomas Gass, assistant secretary - general for policy coordination and interagency affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, talked with Global Finance about the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals and how the private sector can help.

But the freshman lawmaker frames the issue as both about states» rights, and creating jobs: «This step allows states to determine appropriate medicinal use and allows for industrial hemp growth, something that will provide a major economic boost to agricultural development in Southside Virginia,» he said in a statement.

Don't worry about alarmist economists — those at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, for example, or Nobel Prize - winner Paul Krugman — who are predicting a real estate crash.

About Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure The Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure supports a strong, innovative economy that can provide jobs, opportunities and prosperity for all Ontarians.

About California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creation Economic Development The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creatiDevelopment The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creation Economic Development (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creatiDevelopment (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creation economic development and job creatidevelopment and job creation efforts.

For the next few years, Mr. Kowalski languished in the Tory backbenches, emerging to criticize Premier Klein and his cabinet ministers ever so often (even once accusing them of ««misleading the public pretty dramatically about cuts to his former Ministry of Economic Development and Trade).

Professor Woo, President of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.

VICTORIA — New Democrats are introducing a bill calling for the creation of a sustainable development board which would report to policy makers about key indicators of economic, environmental and social progress.

This was a welcome development for Metals & Mining equities, as metal prices have been under pressure for most of 2011 and 2012, largely, we suspect, due to concerns about a recession in Europe, slowing growth in key emerging markets, especially China, and the sluggish pace of economic recovery at home.

«We've been the leading investor in this country for more than five years running, and our Time Warner transaction is all about innovation and economic development, consumer choice, and investment in infrastructure with regard to providing a great 5G mobile broadband experience.

Members of Congress will grouse about giving American money for economic development in Egypt when our own economy is on the rocks.

For one thing, it has created «rising expectations» about development, faster economic growth.

Economic security for all men means something about colonies, about tariffs, about the free access of goods to those people who must have raw materials and markets if they are to have in normal times a standard of living adequate to relieve hunger and permit the free development of body and spirit.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

In a speech to the Centre for Economic Development in Australia (CEDA), ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, will speak about the ACCC's focus on «competition and consumer issues arising in highly concentrated sectors, and in particular the supermarkets and fuel sectors»: see Lucy Battersby, «Watchdog gets tough on retail» (The Age, 21 February 2013).

According to her, just as there is ample evidence that malaria impedes the overall economic development of Ghana and other countries of the sub-region and considering that we need a healthy future workforce for our economic development, it is about time malaria is nipped in the bud.

Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, the go - to man for happy quotes about the governor and the chairman of the administration's economic development council, is the former Rochester mayor.

«How can we connect the canals better to the canal towns, and what kind of programming should we have so that we attract more tourists and recreation, better quality of life, access to the waterfront, economic development... «it's about tourism, it's about recreation, it's about irrigation for our farmers, it's about water usage for some of the manufacturing and process plants that we have along the canal system,» Quiniones told WXXI News.

The state Department of Economic and Community Development understated tax credits for several projects and provided inaccurate data about job creation, state auditors said in a report released Tuesday.

For the second month in a row, the Siena College poll reports that nearly 100 percent of those surveyed want something done about the corruption in Albany that's led to both former leaders of the legislature sentenced to prison and the U.S. attorney's investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs.

Nicoletti said the governor answered questions for about 30 minutes, mostly regarding the effort in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act and economic development spending Upstate.

The state previously had a windfall surplus of about $ 6 billion that was divided up between competitive economic development programs, bolstering the Thruway Authority's finances and helping pay for the construction of a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

He makes a point of noting that he wants to improve education — without the Common Core — and urges listeners to check out his campaign website to learn more about that, as well as his economic development proposals and his support for term limits.

Oneida County, as host to Turning Stone, is expecting about $ 12.5 million a year and County Executive Tony Picente is about to start adding it to his budget for economic development and other projects.

It's about economic development,» he said, adding that a good school system is often a key draw for attracting people to the area.

For more information about the new small business center, visit the Rockland County Economic Development Corporation's website at, http://www.redc.org/.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has recently spoken about a broad plan for economic development and transportation improvements in Rockaway.

Please visit the Regional Economic Development Councils website for more information about the Regional Councils and Consolidated Funding Application Process: http://regionalcouncils.ny.gov/.

Miner said it would be inaccurate to draw specific conclusions about the commission's plan from the recent proposal submitted by the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council for $ 500 million in state funding.

Asked about the possibility of the much sought - after economic development program for SUNY Buffalo known as UB2020, Cuomo said he would continue to fight for its approval, which would grant autonomy in certain areas for the campus.

She also sat down for an interview with WXXI President & CEO Norm Silverstein, to talk about a number of other topics that are now front and center in Albany, including economic development for Western New York and the Finger Lakes, and campus sexual assault.

«I was in Chicago for a waterways economic development conference on Sunday and Monday, and many mayors from across the world, not just mayors in the United States but from across the world, knew about it, were talking about it.

On Tuesday, former Mayor Ed Koch offered an endorsement for Katz, whom he referred to in a statement as «the one candidate in the race that raises the level of conversation about balancing economic development with the community in Queens.»

Cuomo also criticized a reporter when she asked about his plan to address sexual harassment in state government and has defended his hiring of former Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, who reached a settlement with a woman who accused him of harassing her while he worked for Cuomo's economic development agency.

The Central New York Regional Economic Development Council (CNYREDC) will hold six potential project forum workshops in order to help interested applicants learn more about New York State economic and community development funding available, and the most effective ways to secure that funding for future pEconomic Development Council (CNYREDC) will hold six potential project forum workshops in order to help interested applicants learn more about New York State economic and community development funding available, and the most effective ways to secure that funding for futurDevelopment Council (CNYREDC) will hold six potential project forum workshops in order to help interested applicants learn more about New York State economic and community development funding available, and the most effective ways to secure that funding for future peconomic and community development funding available, and the most effective ways to secure that funding for futurdevelopment funding available, and the most effective ways to secure that funding for future projects.