Sentences with phrase «before crises»

Media have a role to play in identifying at - risk communities, launching early reporting on environmental challenges that affect these communities, and holding local authorities accountable before crises reach Flint's or Standing Rock's magnitude.

«The global unemployment rate would remain broadly constant during the next five years, at half a percentage point higher than before the crisis,» the ILO said.

Unlike the years before the crisis, the global consensus now is that governments should be agnostic when it comes to fiscal policy; too much debt is problematic (Greece, Spain, etc.), but it can take more than a balanced budget to inspire business confidence and get executives to spend.

«Unlike the United States before the crisis, the portfolios and business lines of large banks are well diversified, and stress tests suggest that banks have adequate capital and liquidity buffers to weather a large house price correction,» according to the FSR.

That would imply that mobile revenues are down 17 percentage points from before the crisis.

There was no difference in the returns of insiders who had political connections and those who didn't in the period before the crisis, the researchers found.

The fellow Israeli company's offer is almost half the # 862 million ($ 1.3 billion) Plus500 was worth before the crisis blew up.

According to the survey, 49 % of respondents said they have less money than they did before the crisis, so they can't save as much, while 27 % said they're worried about market volatility.

«Perhaps most salient for monetary policy, it appears increasingly clear that the neutral rate of interest remains considerably and persistently lower than it was before the crisis.»

«Perhaps most salient for monetary policy, it appears increasingly clear that the neutral rate of interest remains considerably and persistently lower than it was before the crisis,» she said.

(The Bank of Canada estimates that the nominal neutral interest rate, or the rate at which the level of interest is neither stimulative or contractionary, is between 2.75 % and 3.75 %, compared with 4.5 % and 5.5 % before the crisis.)

«They want what they saw was missing before the crisis,» says Ryan.

When asked about contagion effects from the decline in oil prices, Yellen said that «leverage in the financial system in general is way down» from levels before the crisis, and said it isn't a «major» concern that some entities would be effected by the decline in oil prices.

Sometimes you have to kill the cash cow, or make personnel updates before the crisis, to assure long - term business health.

It feels as good as any season since before the crisis,» said Zandi.

Finally, there might have been less need for UMP were it not for the restrictive measures that many of the EMDEs had used to control capital flows and exchange rate movements beginning well before the crisis.

Before the crisis, repos were more common than reverse repos.

My argument is that a significant part of the strong productivity performance in the two decades before the crisis was due to globalization, and that the globalization process may have brought trade in the global economy to a new balancing point.

In fact, CBO assigns most of the reduced potential to «reassessed trends:» a more pessimistic outlook re hours worked and productivity than what they believed before the crisis.

Mark Carney's statement that «The capital requirements of our largest banks are now ten times higher than before the crisis....

Summers was also a major advocate of new requirements that banks hold more emergency funds in reserve — a position he had been pushing years before the crisis.

By March 2009, gold was up 29 % while the S&P 500 continued to decline — it was down 57 % from its peak before the crisis.

Americans for Financial Reform balked at the Act, explaining in a statement on Thursday that the legislation «contains so many unprecedented gifts to the financial industry that it would make financial regulation even weaker than it was before the crisis.»

First, they were trending down for 20 years before the crisis started and have continued that path since.

Activity in the leveraged loan markets even surpassed the levels recorded before the crisis: average quarterly announcements during the year to end - September 2014 were $ 250 billion, well above the average of $ 190 billion during the pre-crisis period from 2005 to mid-2007.

Before the crisis, the bulk of CDOs were collateralised by asset - backed securities.

It would be far better if Congress passed legislation before a crisis hit to phase - in adjustments in program spending over many years.

Just before the crisis, the demand for Fed liabilities consisted mainly of the public's demand for paper dollars, about $ 800 billion of which were outstanding.

«Before the crisis, public debt was fairly low, and while private debt — and in particular mortgage debt — was a problem, private sector deleveraging is happening quickly.»

Many Fed officials have noted an elevated demand for currency, compared to what existed before the crisis, but only a few have offered specifics as to the balance sheet's final size.

The social network feasted on burgeoning data and devices, just as banks gorged on easy money before the crisis.

But structural strengths and regulatory awareness mean the Canadian financial system is far sounder than its neighbor's before the crisis.

Of course he is talking about the period right before the crisis in 2008, and we all know how that mess got sorted out; the creation of more debt than the world has ever seen.

Premier Christy Clark is failing people who need mental health and addiction treatment and has failed to meet her election commitment for new addiction treatment spaces — a promise that was made long before this crisis hit,» said Hammell.

Worldwide it's the same story: the top eight central banks had $ 5 trillion of footings shortly before the crisis; they have $ 15 trillion today.

«If you look at the developments over the last year in Canada and compare them to the situation in the U.S. before the crisis, there is a clear difference,» said Julien Reynaud, an economist at the International Monetary Fund who follows Canada.

«Even before this crisis started to gain a foothold and grow in our province more than three years ago, individual and families afflicted with substance abuse challenges struggled to gain access to treatment.

Reliance on short - term wholesale funding is also significantly lower than immediately before the crisis, although important structural vulnerabilities remain in short - term funding markets.

Accordingly, to keep growth at a non-inflationary level, you can have lower interest rates, all things being equal, than you could before the crisis.

However both in the UK and US regulation is much tighter than before the crisis, and in the UK mortgage lending is still subdued.

Yields were falling before the crisis, and pension deficits are nothing new.

The hope was that by lowering interest rates to record lows and printing money, economic growth would be kick - started and get back on track to the levels seen before the crisis.

The number of bank applications has plummeted from more than 100 per year before the crisis to just four since 2009.

But even before the crisis, Canada's banking system was well served by its strong regulatory environment and prudent culture, which allowed our institutions to avoid the worst of the turmoil.

It's also a good time of year to have important discussions on end - of - life wishes before any crisis occurs.

Before the crisis resolves itself, countless millions — perhaps as many as 1 billion persons — ...

Knowing what I want — and don't want — before the crisis will make it easier for me and my future caregivers to navigate.

If, like her, they reached maturity before the crisis over Church authority that began with the birth controlcontroversy, they often have a kind of bred - in - the - bones Catholicism... Patty Crowley and her peers never doubted that the Church had something to say, but after 1968 they began to wonder whether it was interested in listening.»

This confusion has been brought into sharp relief by the world crisis; but it existed before the crisis, and it may well continue after the crisis is over.

First - century Judaism, in the Diaspora and even in Palestine before the crisis of AD.