Sentences with phrase «about international competitiveness»

Energy tax rises for many energy - intensive industries were substantially lower, however, reflecting concerns about international competitiveness.

Not Really; National Climate Change Policy: A Quick Look Back at Waxman - Markey and the Road Ahead; Worried About International Competitiveness?

The PISA rankings and the headlines they generate quickly became a flashpoint for policy makers concerned about international competitiveness.

Not exact matches

The decline reflects some things that are out of the government's control (international demand, the exchange rate) and some things that arguably the prime minister could do something about, namely Canada's chronic lack of competitiveness.

If we take this passage as an indication of the role publicly supported education may be able to play, we see nothing about economic development and international competitiveness, but a lot about our humanity and citizenship.

(If it ain't broke, etc.) Yet all the news about flat NAEP results and bleak PISA and TIMSS scores, to say nothing of the hand wringing over international competitiveness and waning social mobility, don't seem to have penetrated very far into the public's continued faith in their local schools.

Of course the international assessments are all about «economic competitiveness» aren't they?

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

It is about American competitiveness, international influence, national security and long - term economic strength and prosperity.