Sentences with phrase «agenda for reform»

The new policy framework developed by COAG (as reflected in the National Indigenous Reform Agreement and the Closing the Gap strategy) represents a comprehensive, coherent and ambitious agenda for reform.

Agenda for Reform in the Natural Resources Sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo is available here.

The briefing, Agenda for Reform 2012, highlights concerns over how Congo's mining, hydrocarbons and logging sectors are managed and provides recommendations that would help ensure the resources are used for the benefit of the people, rather than being lost to corruption or mismanagement.

Each has come with their own unique agenda for reform; for Michael Gove it was the academies and free schools programme; for Nicky Morgan, it was character building, resilience and trying to build bridges with the profession.

His contract with the party embraces a sweeping agenda for reform, bringing back the membership's influence in a genuine attempt to restore their say.

Assemblymember Mark Schroeder said, «Governor Cuomo has laid out a bold agenda for reform that not only gets our state's fiscal house in order but puts New York on a path for future economic growth and job creation.

Carl has never said changing New York's existing abortion laws are on his agenda for reform.

«He has laid out a bold agenda to reform and I am proud to stand with him and this diverse group of leaders to bring New Yorkers together — regardless of their party affiliation — under this big tent and behind this agenda for reform.»

«It doesn't spell out exactly how the United States will pursue these goals, but it is quite a clear and ambitious agenda for reform of the WTO,» said Edward Alden, a trade expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In January 2012, in a speech in Strasburg, Prime Minister David Cameron set out an agenda for reforming the ECtHR which would reduce the number of admissible cases, and thus the backlog, by ensuring that the Court did not act as a small claims court or Court of Fourth Instance and did not go over national decisions where it did not need to.

The Labour leader, who said Britain needed a more responsible capitalism in his party conference speech last autumn, revealed details of his party's agenda for reforming the banking sector.

Certain reform groups like Democrats for Education Reform and StudentsFirst have very specific policy agendas for reforming education.

Silicon Valley Education Foundation Chief Executive Officer Muhammed Chaudry agrees with Torlakson that California already has adopted an ambitious agenda for reforming its public schools and said he thinks Tuck's candidacy is premature.

Our research, projects and services guide our agenda for reforming child welfare law and practice.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

«The good news is that the regional growth is improving for both oil - importing and oil - exporting, yet the region is not fully benefiting from the improvement in the global outlook and this requires countries in the region to pursue the reform agenda,» he said.

Giving the timing of the next general election, this means making tax reform an agenda item for the government's second mandate.

«The collapse of the Senate's healthcare strategy is a near - term negative for the GOP's broader legislative agenda, but we contend that failing to pass health care legislation dramatically increases the sense of urgency surrounding the tax reform conversation,» Boltansky wrote.

This backdrop makes policy progress very unlikely as domestic politics drive the agenda [leading to] limited room for country - level structural reform [and] little progress toward EU or eurozone reform or integration.»

But now support for her has plunged to around 30 percent, a record low, and analysts say an ambitious agenda including a proposed constitutional reform and overhaul of the university education system are at risk.

The Senate passed the Republican tax reform bill early Saturday in a massive win for the party and President Donald Trump, who has seen many of his agenda items stall in the legislature during his first year in office.

Beyond these concerns, of course, we still need to fix problems that have been with us for some time during the crisis: unacceptably high unemployment, especially among young people; high levels of debt in many countries; and the need to complete the financial reform agenda.

(i) Does the concerted, global regulatory reform agenda mean that there is now more scope than in the past for sound risk management practices to be set up prior to full liberalisation?

Republican leaders for now look determined to pursue an aggressive tax reform agenda and appear committed to the cause of fundamental reform.

All credit to the FHFA for keeping reforming the money - losing mortgage agencies on the agenda.

The IMF believes that India will continue to outgrow China for the next several years, but sustaining this pace of growth will require continuing the microeconomic reform agenda.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

At the moment, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sees the rapid conclusion of the TPP as his absolute priority for at least three reasons: it counters the current crisis of the global economic order, buttresses his domestic legitimacy and represents the anchor for his structural reform agenda.

It was the speech of a guy running for President and who is serious about enacting center - right reforms (and that includes being serious about winning over swing - voters to a responsible center - right agenda.)

Surprisingly, many progressive Reform Rabbis have expressed public support for the Christian Zionists and the Christian right, knowing full well that the Christian right's theological and political agendas are contrary to the Reform Jewish community's longstanding progressive stance on civil liberties and human rights.

Indeed, it could be argued that the Constitution itself has provided the agenda for Protestant as well as Roman Catholic reform.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

The not - so - hidden agenda was to make evangelical Christianity the spearhead for social reform — at least partly, one suspects, to gain credibility for it as a theological alternative.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

In the third phase, which came to full flower in the decades following the New Deal revolution, an altogether new conception of the Constitution emerged, which broadened the reform agenda to include, inter alia, eviscerating more or less completely the Tenth Amendment, eliminating religion from the public square, energetically pursuing racial and sexual equality, and, more recently, legitimizing moral autonomy as the default standard for individual behavior.

He writes that the scandal has also been exploited by people who have different agendas for church reform.

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, has delivered a speech to a World Bank Forum in Poland entitled «Making markets work for development: A reform agenda on competition».

The AFR reports taht former ACCC Chairman, Craeme Samuel, has called for the re-introduction fo competition payments «to kick - start the reform agenda», noting that competition policy hs «slipped off» the COAG reform agenda.

Schultz not only urged the passage of reform measures on the agenda but laid out bold ideas for the future.

NHS Together campaign NHS Together is a campaign alliance of health staff formed to raise the alarm at what is happening to the NHS and to press the government for honest and open discussion about its reform agenda.

Trump's infrastructure agenda has foundered amid setbacks for other efforts, such as health care changes and tax reform, which have struggled to gain traction.

But the main reason for a homegrown reform agenda was the regime's acknowledgment that many of the measures suggested were good in their own right and would greatly improve the system's managerial and technical capacity.

Our two traditions on the centre - left of British politics gave Britain its two great reforming governments last century in 1906 and 1945 and we must set the agenda for this century.

I'm determined to stop that agenda and fight for pro-growth policy reforms.

So it makes sense for Labour to spend parliament's time up on the bill it does support — Lords reform — at the expense of the coalition's own legislative agenda.

My worry is that if it doesn't happen now, then the next election could deliver a Tory majority, and electoral reform and progressive politics could be off the agenda for another generation.

Far from putting proportional representation on the agenda, the Tories are now in a position to push through reform of electoral boundaries under the existing first - past - the - post system to make it fairer (i.e. better for them).

It's difficult for any government to pursue a reform agenda that will cut into the profits of entrenched special interests.

This is bad news for China as it has long valued global economic stability within which to pursue its own reform agenda, but is particularly worrisome now as the country grapples with difficult choices over how to develop «new engines of economic growth».

Former Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has used the occasion to attack his government for «watering down» their agenda on issues from trade union reform to parliamentary sovereignty.