Sentences with phrase «challenges economic arguments»

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He buttressed his argument with the current economic and power challenges facing the nation which he said the government...

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

«It's difficult to separate the two issues, and one of the challenges if we ever get to having an in - out referendum on Europe will be separating the economic benefits of being members of the EU from arguments around how immigration is changing communities.»

Despite these economic challenges, I believe there are several strong arguments for sequencing rather than genotyping.

Even as the state - and federal - led accountability movement presents new challenges to local control, the political, economic, and educational arguments for local control are also likely to continue to enjoy support.

A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio - economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially.

Although the economic argument for fossil fuel subsidies may seem apparent, reform has been challenging.

India's huge development and energy challenges mean there are economic and development arguments for investing in new coal power plants for the...

The wealth of data and provocative arguments presented here make «Smart Solutions to Climate Change» a valuable resource for policy - makers, NGOs, academics, students, and everybody who is interested in learning more about the economic realities that face us as we confront this challenge.»

And so if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions which imply duties, responsibilities, and obligations what questions should the press ask opponents of climate change policies when they make economic and scientific arguments against climate change policies?

Suggesting a source separation method of waste stream diversion, and trying to build a convincing economic argument for source separation has been a challenge because there is plenty of evidence that it appears no one is presently interested.

The other argument is that, even if humans do in the decades to come rise to the challenge, it could be too late: by then greenhouse gas concentrations could have reached a level in the atmosphere that would in the long run condemn the world to sea level rises of several metres, and a succession of economic and humanitarian disasters.

The economic costs of pollution, along with the apparent happy coexistence of economic growth and pollution reduction, are marshaled to challenge «the argument that pollution control kills jobs and stifles the economy.»

The statute was clearly retroactive — it was not a tort, prior its enactment, to cause the government economic damage by selling tobacco, and this retroactivity was one of the grounds on which it was challenged, the argument being that it violated the principle of the Rule of Law.

There, he made the argument that there is a lack of data on how a distributed economic system like bitcoin would react when faced with this challenge.