Sentences with phrase «about the economic development of»

If we are going to be serious about the economic development of our country, we have to open it up.

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«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.

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That balkanization is evident in the City of Vancouver's paltry economic development budget, which sits at about $ 2.7 million.

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.

Entrepreneur: We're hearing more conversation about the intersection of entrepreneurship and economic development, especially in emerging markets.

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.

At first, Joey Grisham, president of the economic development corporation in Hutto, Texas, a town of 20,000 about 25 miles northeast of Austin, didn't even know who he was courting.

The conversation was charged as panelists sparred on 421a, with Pinsky — the former head of the city's Economic Development Corporation — raising questions about the cost of lengthy tax abatements.

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.

This begs important questions about the wisdom of state and local economic development strategies and their ability to remain focused on addressing the real challenges American communities face today.

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.

Opposition came in part from Grant Gibbons, shadow minister of economic development and a member of political party One Bermuda Alliance, who had concerns about the details and lack of economic impact assessment.

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.

Finance has a branch of about 100 professionals solely dedicated to monitoring and analyzing current economic developments and assessing their impacts on future developments.

As part of our pledge, we are leveraging various aspects of our business — from product development, to economic research, to public affairs and marketing support — to raise awareness about housing insecurity and create solutions to address the unique needs of our Community Partners and those who are housing vulnerable.

«We're all concerned about what could be gentrification or displacement, how do we deal with that,» said Aisha Glover, president and chief executive of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation, which is involved in the New Jersey city's bid.

The Department of Finance has a branch of about 100 professionals, solely dedicated to monitoring and analyzing current economic developments and assessing their impacts on future developments.

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.

Matt Mikolajewski, city of Madison economic development director, said the property was listed with the CBRE commercial real estate firm about one month ago.

These stories of everyday - people - turned - human - rights - defenders, most of them Indigenous men and women of Mesoamerica, will undoubtedly provide the Canadian public with the so - far untold story about this highly - controversial Canadian economic development model.

According to an incentives contract recently signed with the Indiana Economic Development Corp., Clear Software plans to spend about $ 700,000 to open a new headquarters in downtown Zionsville, where it will hire up to 190 employees by the end of 2019.

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).

In their development of this initiative, the three founders recruited additional members to forge the Project's Risk Committee, a group of dedicated individuals concerned about the economic future of America under the threat of global climate change.

The indicator reflects the difference between analysts who are optimistic about forthcoming economic development of Germany within six months and those who are pessimistic.

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.

Efforts to find shared value in operating practices and in the social dimensions of competitive context have the potential not only to foster economic and social development but to change the way companies and society think about each other.

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're going to pose some tough questions to both candidates about economic issues, stemming directly from the survey results,» said Black, noting that 66 per cent of survey respondents said they want the City of Vancouver to pursue ways to champion the development of energy, natural resources and Port facilities.

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

«All this has come about not (as we thought in hot youth) through the perversity of men, but through the impersonal fatality of economic development.

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.

Paul Johnson and Amy Sherman wrote about capitalism and our need to put this successful system of economic development on a firm moral footing.

St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding authors, most of whom are also First Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.

Contemporary evidence about the economic cultures of East Asia, of successful ethnic groups in different countries, or of the mobility of immigrants to this country all seems to point in the same direction: self - denial and discipline are virtues that are the condition sine qua non of early capitalist development.

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.

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.

Due to the influence of traditional dietary habit and limit of economic development, currently each person consumes only about 6.39 kilograms milk per year.

The I - 80 Corporate Consortium is group of business leaders, political representatives, economic development professionals and local officials who joined forces about two and a half years ago to help each other and create «one voice» to promote economic development in the corridor, Wright said.

If youth applicants or their parents / guardians have questions about the DYIP application process, contact Employment Program Coordinator James Dickens with the City of Durham's Office of Economic and Workforce Development at 919-560-4965, ext. 15217 or at [email protected].

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Again, that is an exaggerated description of both sides» economic models, but it is a debate that is certainly being written about and considered by other governments as they think about modes of development.

Heastie and Flanagan had not murmured a peep about the billions being spent on economic development until the subpoenas started landing, now they are all concerned about the integrity of the process.

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.

Apart from this baffling development coming when the nation is still in the throes of economic hardship, Nigerians are not particularly happy about the insensitivity of our leaders towards the grinding poverty and the excruciating pains the masses are going through.

The region's Bedouin are angry about a lack of public services and economic development and oppose the government in Cairo.