Sentences with phrase «by global forces»

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The vibrant global marketplace of today, increasingly driven by daily technological advancements, is constantly forcing marketers and advertisers to evolve their strategies for achieving higher sales, and currently the most valuable skill to possess relates to content marketing.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

He said the journals, Global Witness and Fatal Transactions, had highlighted that violent rebel forces were, in many cases, financed by profits from diamonds, oil and agricultural products and had accused the diamond industry of inaction on the issue.

A wearable technology company founded by Perth entrepreneur Justin Miller and an Israeli medical cannabis company are the latest businesses planning to join the rush of backdoor listings on the ASX, though the news is not all positive with Voyager Global Group becoming the seventh company forced to cancel an announced deal in the past 18 months.

Management consultancy Oliver Wyman has estimated global investment research spend could fall by as much as $ 1.5 billion annually, when the rules come into force in January.

According to the Deloitte Millennial Survey, millennials will constitute 75 percent of the global work force by 2025.

Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

The velocity of the move will be based on the movement of the dollar in conjunction with other major global currencies; A fast move higher in the U.S. dollar will force the price of crude lower quickly (crude is denominated in dollars globally) and force selling by those who need capital.

Almost 200 nations are aiming to agree a new global pact to combat climate change by 2015 that would enter into force in 2020.

Regardless of your feelings about them, these people will account for 75 percent of the global work force by 2025.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and said it was invented by the Chinese to undermine U.S. manufacturing, has said he wants to cancel the 2015 Paris Agreement among almost 200 nations that entered into force on Nov. 4.

That some of the forces governing capital flows and asset values are driven not by market - determined expected return but by policy measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.

A global map published by the company shows users» movements and is said to expose data about bases and personnel, including those of U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.

The study said Coca - Cola, one of 10 global companies looked at by KTC, has committed to conduct 28 country - level studies on child labor, forced labor, and land rights for its sugar supply chains by 2020.

On August 30th we will launch the Star Wars themed Disney Infinity 3.0 edition followed by an unprecedented consumer products global event called Force Friday on September 4.

U.S. Air Force selects Rockwell Collins for expanded avionics support on KC - 135s - Apr 10, 2018 - Rockwell Collins has been awarded multiple repair contracts by the U.S. Air Force to support Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) components on the entire KC - 135 tanker fleet.

While some countries still enact mercantilist policies that directly affect the relative prices of traded goods in ways that David Ricardo would have understood two hundred years ago, in today's global trading environment, persistent trade surpluses are usually caused by distortions in income distribution that force up savings rates.

Attempts to export its excess savings can only lead to one of three outcomes: A) global growth rises because Europe's savings are all directed at developing countries with significant infrastructure investment needs and insufficient capital, B) global growth drops sharply, global unemployment rises, and China's adjustment becomes all but impossible, C) international trade and capital flows collapse in a repeat of the 1930s, so that Europe is forced to resolve its savings imbalance either by a massive increase in unemployment or a wave of sovereign defaults.

Duy: On the one hand, there is this global deflationary force, which could be exacerbated by a slowdown in China.

By: Simon Sonnekus 24th June 2016 In the face of global capital constraints, gold mining companies have been forced to look into alternative options for the development of mines.

The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»

It is equally noteworthy that Citigroup, the global behemoth which started this systemic train wreck in 1999 by forcing the repeal of the Glass - Steagall Act, is also on the list.

While organisations such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors take the lead in setting global standards, we contribute to global regulatory initiatives by participating in their task forces and committees to work on implementing financial regulatory reforms, enhancing standards and facilitating market development.

The company is in the process of looking for a new CEO who could guide its global strategy, but that search has been complicated by Uber investors clashing over whether to force Kalanick to forfeit his seat on the board.

This could disrupt the global remittance market, valued at $ 514 billion in 2012, by providing a less expensive method for direct transfers globally.8 Current providers may be forced to lower fees or be replaced by entrants like BitPesa, a mobile payment application for Bitcoin in the developing world.

The present global order controlled by the MNCs, neo-colonial forces and elites of the countries does not ensure the values of justice and plurality.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Among the many positions taken by these critics, the argument most relevant to our present theme is that the rise of international institutions under the umbrella of the United Nations system represents the leading edge of a new global system of government that has superseded the state in important respects, including the right to judge when resort to armed force is legitimate.

Faced with the power of the social forces which dominate the global capitalist archipelago, appropriation of the future of the planet by its inhabitants will not be easy and neither will it happen overnight.

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.

But a recent book by international economist Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, has helped me grasp some of the underlying forces that are driving the leaders away from the led.

Two months before the presidential election of 2000, the PNAC unipolarists issued a position paper titled «Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century» that spelled out the particulars of a global empire strategy: repudiate the ABM treaty, build a global missile defense system, increase defense spending by $ 20 billion per year to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, and reinvent the U.S. military to meet expanded obligations throughout the world.

As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

In short, they will develop a relatively self - reliant economy and protect it from erosion by global economic forces.

In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge of the global archeological community — is being forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands of illegally acquired ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.

Thousands of cotton farmers in central India have killed themselves, escaping a plight that Oxfam in a report last year claimed had been worsened by their «indiscriminate and forced integration» into an «unfair global system» in which the agricultural products of heavily subsidized farmers in the US and Europe depress prices globally.

They have had limited success, but they have forced the world to see that the policies of our global leaders are bitterly rejected by masses of citizens.

The collective intelligence of the global community, united by the expansive reach of the internet is a powerful force, capable of doing incredible things for humanity.

Global CEOs on the Board of The Consumer Goods Forum continue their efforts in tackling forced labour by adopting and calling for action on «Priority Industry Principles»: Every worker should...

Up to 85 per cent of the 2500 infant formula brands competing in the lucrative China market could eventually be locked out under tough new regulations by authorities that came into force on January 1, with some Australian brands likely to be caught up in the global shake - out over the next few months.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

Severely affected by the global economic crisis, its GDP fell more than 7 % in 2009, forcing the Romanian government to request a $ 26 billion IMF emergency assistance package.

He said, it was a space - based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force, explaining,» It is a global navigation satellite system that provides geo - location and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.»

By 2005 GCHQ was fi ghting on three fronts - the global war on terror, and supporting our armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Amongst global healthcare systems, the NHS is almost uniquely well placed to deliver this transformation in the relationship between patients and clinicians: one of the most trusted organisations in British society, its doctors, nurses and staff recognised by everyone as a force for good in our country — and let me thank everyone who is working so hard to make these changes possible.

As Cynthia Sears at Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health says, «Just by mere force of numbers, the bad bugs are beat out by the good bugs.»

At the three - day Second Global Conference on Magic and the Supernatural, researchers will discuss the neuroscience of magical thinking and the ways some traumatized individuals try to cope with abuse and tragedy by attributing their suffering to mystical forces or imaginary beings instead of admitting that someone they love has hurt them.

If at least 55 countries, collectively producing at least 55 percent of global climate pollution every year, file their instruments of ratification by Oct. 7, then the Paris agreement will take force for those countries before the next round of climate talks, scheduled for November.

The researchers [3] quantified China's current contribution to global «radiative forcing» (the imbalance, of human origin, of our planet's radiation budget), by differentiating between the contributions of long - life greenhouse gases, the ozone and its precursors, as well as aerosols.