Sentences with phrase «by economic size»

With countries appropriately weighted by economic size (GDP), Canada was already below the OECD average in 2010.

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These recommendations were in fact cited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andEconomic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andEconomic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andeconomic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate and invest.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

In May, the World Economic Forum (WEF) estimated that by 2050, the size of the retirement savings gap — unfunded pensions, in other words — could be as much as $ 400 trillion, an unimaginably large number.

The whitepaper identifies increased adoption of the Internet by small and medium sized businesses as a clear area for economic growth.

This cost would likely be enough to cause debt to exceed the size of the economy by 2028 — bad news for the nation's fiscal and economic future.

This is a reflection of our economic structure, which is dominated by domestically oriented, mostly small and medium sized companies.

«While we will strive to win, if somewhere else is selected by Amazon, I think it will be a very significant plus for our region having experienced an economic development (proposal) of this size and scope and to have gotten together and done the hard work.»

MILESTONES By Gordon Platt Rewriting economic history going back to 1929, the Commerce department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) increased the size of the US economy by $ 560 billioBy Gordon Platt Rewriting economic history going back to 1929, the Commerce department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) increased the size of the US economy by $ 560 economic history going back to 1929, the Commerce department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) increased the size of the US economy by $ 560 Economic Analysis (BEA) increased the size of the US economy by $ 560 billioby $ 560 billion.

But a combination of economic fundamentals, along with the small size and highly unusual trading tactics employed by the closed or crippled funds, point to this as being a storm that will blow over relatively quickly.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

As for the common people, their economic status doubtless limited the size of their households and, as among all polygamous peoples, any rise in affluence was accompanied by an increase of wives.

Thatcherite Tories favoured scaling down the size of economic and social units: breaking up the welfare state and dismantling the corporate economy into privatized units run by entrepreneurs and business leaders operating within a smaller — but stronger — state.

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

Trump delivered an economic victory lap during a speech to farmers in Tennessee in which he vastly overstated the size of the tax cuts passed by Congress late last year and played up a rollback of regulations on American businesses.

Romney Republicanism is therefore a variant of a minimalist, nomocratic conservatism aiming to restore the idea of the social minimum (reversing the enlargements added by the Obama Administration); the depoliticisation of swathes of American society (i.e. deregulation, desocialisation, liberalisation and debureaucratisation) and shrink the size of government in economic affairs.

For those who continue to be obsessed by the size of my government, let me, with due deference to the chairperson of the Economic Management Team, my brilliant Vice President, cite from his speech, two days ago, at Legon, at the opening of the New Year School:

The proposed bill, agreed to by the mayor and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Vivertio but not yet introduced or passed in the council, will expand the size of businesses required to provide paid sick leave from 15 or more employees to 5 or more employees, accelerate it's applicability so that all covered businesses must comply by April 1, 2014 (businesses with 15 - 20 employees have until April 1, 2015 under the existing law), remove exemptions for manufacturing businesses and remove economic measurements that could have caused a delayed implementation and expand the range of family members that employees can care for during such paid sick leave.

Using its own economic simulation model, CEBR tested the knock - on effects of adding 1p to employers» NICs, paid by small and medium sized enterprises.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fort Drum commanders, politicians and economic development officials say the base faces a serious threat as Pentagon brass tries to figure out how to reduce the Army's size by up to 70,000 additional soldiers, preparing for deep budget restraints.

We worked with the Cambodian government to provide the technical background to allow them to set up the Seima Protection Forest which is in eastern Cambodia — really wonderful area for wildlife about the size of Yosemite — and set up strictly for the protection of carbon, when it was being deforested by people in search of economic well being.

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

Recent work in which Dennis Kimko and I have been engaged has looked closely at the size of the impact of labor force quality, as measured by tests of cognitive ability, on the economic growth of countries.

By comparison, class size, socio - economic status, teacher subject matter knowledge and motivation are all of significantly lesser value.

It makes several changes to the DBE program, concerning such subjects as uniform application and reporting forms; implementing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Small Business Administration (SBA); substantive amendments to provisions concerning personal net worth, retainage, size standard, proof of ethnicity, confidentiality, proof of economic disadvantage, DBE credit for trucking firms, and eligibility of firms owned by Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs); and clarifications concerning multi-year project goals and the use of the new North American Industrial Classification System («NAICS»).

The size of your book is determined by your approach to page layout as well as economic reasons.

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.

These investments are subject to the risk that a governmental entity may delay or refuse to pay interest or repay principal on its sovereign debt, due, for example, to cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity's debt position in relation to the economy or the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral agencies.

In an economic environment with steady monetary inflation, taking out a long - term loan backed by a tangible non-depreciating «permanent» asset (e.g. real estate) is in practice a form of investing not borrowing, because over time the monetary value of the asset will increase in line with inflation, but the size of the loan remains constant in money terms.

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These en - suite rooms are 13 meters squared in size and have a small double (four by six feet) which are spacious for single occupancy and an economic option for 2 sharing.

hotel.info, the leading online hotel reservation service with more than 210,000 hotels around the world, is reacting to the global economic crisis by targeting small and medium - sized businesses.

Four by six feet in size, these beds are spacious for single occupancy and an economic option for two sharing.

Located just off Lauriston Place (which runs to Bristo Square), these rooms are just a short walk from George Square and The Pleasance so perfect for visitors to Edinburgh during the summer and offering quality student accommodation throughout the rest of the year.These en - suite rooms are 13 meters squared in size and have a small double (four by six feet) which are spacious for single occupancy and an economic option for 2 sharing.

This is a Texas - size area of international water that includes the North Pole and is encircled by the exclusive economic zones of the coastal countries.

The greatest potential damage caused by space weather in economic terms would be the destruction of infrastructure required for continent - sized power distribution systems.

GCAM is a dynamic recursive economic model driven by assumptions about population size and labor productivity that determine potential gross domestic product in each of 14 regions at 15 year time steps.

Commercial Stimulation Services AltaRock's multi-zone stimulation can increase the economic gain at existing power plants by increasing reservoir size, capacity and life of the system.

Also, the cost to the economy would be substantial, reducing the size of Mexico's GDP by 4 % in 2040, resulting in a total economic loss of $ 1 trillion over the period of the outlook.

A 2014 IEA report concluded, «The uptake of economically viable energy efficiency investments has the potential to boost cumulative economic output through 2035 by $ 18 trillion,» which is larger than the current size of the U.S. economy.

In other words, reducing world economic growth over the next century reduces the size of the world economy in 2108 by $ 718 trillion per year.

The IEA found that «the uptake of economically viable energy efficiency investments has the potential to boost cumulative economic output through 2035 by USD 18 trillion,» which is larger than the current size of the U.S. economy!

Garnaut's report showed that if we set a target of 550 ppm economic growth will be slowed by a mere 0.1 per cent, which means we would have to wait until 2042, an extra two years, before our economy doubled in size.

What's unique about this renewable energy project is that it isn't advocating or looking for any one - size - fits - all answer to our energy needs, but rather takes a state - by - state approach and sets out a plan for each one, including the projected energy mix for 2050, the number of jobs created in the process, the health and economic benefits, and the projected energy cost savings that can result from it.

A reduction, for example, in economic growth by must 1 percentage point a year would reduce the size of the global economy by 2.5 times in a century.

As Alex Novarese of Legal Week is right to point out, overall revenue in the UK legal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO providers.

Management in the UK could be prosecuted for failure to prevent fraud by staff Speaking at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime in September this year, the Attorney General reiterated the Prime Minister's priority of expanding economic opportunities — meaning businesses «of all sizes» should be better held accountable for their fEconomic Crime in September this year, the Attorney General reiterated the Prime Minister's priority of expanding economic opportunities — meaning businesses «of all sizes» should be better held accountable for their feconomic opportunities — meaning businesses «of all sizes» should be better held accountable for their failures.

Law firms are segmented by size, reach and economic success.

Apple is planning to release a new iPad Pro with a display that measures about 11 inches, according to Taiwan's Economic Daily News.iPad Pro with slimmer bezels rendered by Benjamin GeskinWe've already heard rumors about a 10.5 - inch iPad Pro with slimmer bezels and no home button, so Apple could include a slightly larger 11 - inch display without increasing the physical size of the tablet itself.

Driven by a number of economic, demographic, and firmographic trends the contingent workforce is growing in both size and importance for organizations that need to get work done.