Sentences with phrase «as economic actors»

But as both economic actors and citizens, designers can contribute to redesigning the economy for a better balance of human and ecological values against monetary ones.

Credit is aligned with a rights - based approach more than assistance because it boosts people's financial assets for livelihoods while «maintaining the borrower's dignity as economic actors - not as recipients of charitable handouts,» (Jacobsen 2005: 77).

No economist supposes that human beings are exhaustively understood as economic actors.

One needs a thicker account of the biological and psychological differences between men and women to explain pay disparity fully, which is simply to say that they can not be treated merely as economic actors.

But it does not mean that India is not taking actions towards emission reduction, both at policy level as well as economic actor level.

Leveraging government as an economic actor through public procurement policies that ensure respect for human rights

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But it's also becoming ever harder for americans employing unilateral coercive diplomacy to convince other important economic actors, allies as well as non-allies, to play along.

Record - high world debt stocks make various economic actors more vulnerable, motivating greater savings as a buffer against future shocks.

Perhaps economic actors take the continuation of zero rates as evidence that the Fed is worried and so they should be as well.

Other economic actors have their own federal granting agencies, such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The structural adjustment imposed by the IMF and the World Bank on debtor countries as a condition of aiding them to renegotiate their debts has transformed the relative power of governments and economic actors.

-- To be counted as an act of terror, an incident has to be an intentional act or threat by a «non-state actor» that meets two of these three criteria: — • It was aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious or social goal.

The early economists thought of the economic actors chiefly as individuals and small businesses.

For long - time residents, supermarkets are paradoxical actors appealing to, as well as, challenging the narrative of a community whose economic strength was based on the surrounding natural environment and local people's endeavours.

It has also exposed the political class and powerful economic actors as being involved in large - scale and complex corruption schemes.

I will argue that the primary purpose of economic governance in a republican economy should be to promote the independence of economic actors as a means of preventing the abuse of economic power and the corruption of public life.

There is also increasing interest in the link between government actions and the decisions of economic actors such as businesses, households and banks.

Cities such as London, Hamburg or Paris are much more effective socio - economic actors than some EU member states such as Latvia or Cyprus.

It is quite likely that political factors, for example the influence of powerful economic actors on legislative bodies, played a role in causing, or exacerbating, this crisis, as Daron Acemoglou, for example, has recently argued.

By the time you are in the business of publishing newspapers you are capable of acting as a rational economic actor and deciding whether to pay regulator fees or take your chances with exemplary damages.

Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell - bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar.

Over the past decade, Shannon has been increasingly typecast as either a twitchy weirdo on societal margins or an earnest simpleton, but Bahrani, in a stroke of casting gumption that makes one wonder why he's the first to make the move, has redirected the actor's distinctly coiled facial features and natural gift for commanding a room toward a character with genuinely threatening social and economic power.

In the film, we follow street puppeteer Craig (John Cusack, looking like a small, humming pile of hair) as he confronts the economic viability of his chosen occupation by getting an admin job on the 7 1/2 floor of a building that also happens to hide a tiny door which leads, if one crawls through cobwebs and puddles, to the inside of John Malkovich's head, wherein for 15 minutes the brain tourist can vicariously live through famous actor John Malkovich's eyes before getting spit up into a ditch off the New Jersey Turnpike.

In this way we can develop compassion towards others which could be an ethical guideline for future behavior of actors such as consultants, lawyers and bankers in financial markets while contributing to long term economic growth and prosperity.

Education is particularly vulnerable to external accountability because of its dismal record with poor students, its organizational weakness as a highly feminized «semiprofession,» and the centrality of education to many non-educational concerns (economic, social, cultural, etc.), which leads a wide variety of actors to want to regulate it.

Such caution combines with the complexity and interdependence in the economic area to produce a more collaborative and moderate system, in which negotiation tends to displace confrontation as a style of interaction, at least among actors with the capacity to inflict system - wide as distinct from regional destruction.

He discovered that an economic actor with an edge could size his bets as a ratio of his edge in betting divided by the odds received on the bet.

Similar to Michael Porter's Five Forces framework, Co-opetition aims to describe a business or industry as part of a broader system, and design business strategy through competition and alliances with other economic actors that affect your business.

Rather, reserves are going unutilized because of a profound lack of confidence on the part of economic actors bred by anti-growth policies promoted by the Obama administration (particularly healthcare reform) and the threat of significantly higher taxes (as much as US$ 6 trillion over the next 10 years if current plans aren't altered.)

Behavioural insights recognize how people actually behave versus traditional economic and market theory of people as rational actors.

Working from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the project considers plants as both witnesses and actors in history, and as dynamic agents — linking nature and humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition and modernity — across different geographies, histories and systems of knowledge, with a variety of curative, spiritual and economic powers.

It addresses the economic and social costs of «business as usual» growth in Asia and the Pacific, discusses unexplored opportunities for increasing sustainability and ecological inefficiencies, and analyse the role of the various actors.

So if there is a real, though unquantifiably small, possibility of catastrophic climate change, and if we would ideally want some technological hedges as insurance against this unlikely scenario, and if raising the price of carbon to induce private economic actors to develop the technologies would be an enormously more expensive means of accomplishing this than would be advisable, then what, if anything, should we do about the danger?

As described by conservative economist Friedrich von Hayek, it refers to «the observation that the data required for rational economic (decision - making) are distributed among many individual actors, and thus unavoidably exist outside the knowledge of a central authority.»

Moreover, if tort liability compels fossil fuel producers to internalize the cost of climate injuries, these companies (as rational economic actors) would presumably incorporate those costs into the price of their products.

They give a six - page explanation of the economic concept of an «externality» (the effect of an action that benefits the actor, but the costs affects someone else) that could have been explained as well in a couple of paragraphs.

The event convened government, businesses, researchers and academia to discuss a pathway towards decarbonization, as all actors play their part to build global partnerships that facilitate structural transformation and technological innovation, seek continuous improvement of climate policy and establish strong economic mechanisms, such as carbon pricing, that will build a low - carbon economy.

The Commission was faced with the difficulty of identifying the beneficiary undertakings of the STL regime in this case, as it acknowledged that it was in principle possible to identify 5 major categories of actors: (i) the shipyards offering new built vessels or construction, repair and renovation services, (ii) leasing companies offering financing facilities, (iii) EIGs chartering out and selling vessels, (iv) the investors in those EIGs offering goods and services on a wide range of market (except if they are individuals not exercising any economic activity, in which case the Commission recognised that they were not covered by the Decision), and (v) shipping companies offering maritime transport services buying vessels to the EIGs through the STL system (recital 126).

The three basic categories, are: economic actors — basically spammers — the second are governments, trying to interfere in elections — that's a security issue — the third is just polarization and some kind of lack of truthfulness in what you've described as the media and in terms of people who are legitimately trying to get the opinion they believe out there.