Sentences with phrase «challenges the economy faces»

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Along with the hardware sellers, railroads, trucking companies, logistics firms and others that make up the supply - chain of the economy also faced the challenge of providing essential goods to Texas, the second - largest U.S. state.

Every business that pre-dated the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy?

The report found there to be significant differences in the performance of various sectors in the U.K. economy, noting that retail and consumer - facing sectors — restaurants and bars, for example — faced continuing challenges.

«Some may object to the EU moving so aggressively against U.S. - based companies, but these authorities are at least trying to deal with some of the new competitive challenges facing our economy,» said the News Media Alliance.

An upbeat, diminutive, and youthful 46, he riffed confidently on the challenges facing the Canadian economy.

I sat down with Chesky for a wide - ranging chat about why investors ran away from Airbnb in the beginning, the pushback the company has faced from regulators, the challenges facing its sharing - economy peer Uber, and the company's plans for an IPO.

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

This year's World Economic Forum in Davos, a sort of brain spa for the world's movers and shakers, named rising income inequality as the biggest challenge now facing the world economy.

Moreover, the Chinese economy itself faces massive challenges.

Still, Donohue insisted that, «Given the unprecedented challenges facing our economy, the Campaign for Free Enterprise is one of the most important and necessary initiatives in the Chamber's nearly 100 - year history.»

Or was it the economy, just plain bad luck or any number of challenges that the company faced, is facing or will face?

Calgary's energy - focused economy may be facing its challenges, but the city was still a draw for multinational diamond miner De Beers, which moved its 67 - person Canadian headquarters to the city from Toronto this summer — the highest - profile head office move between the two cities since Imperial Oil's trek west in 2005.

The bank also believes there are fewer imminent risks facing the global and Canadian economies, although the speed of the slowdown in Canada's previously hot housing market could become a new challenge.

Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa said the government remains committed to eliminating the deficit by 2017 - 18, but the Fitch announcement underscores the challenges the province's economy faces.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

Franchise businesses are now poised to accelerate growth plans, but industry leaders say the lack of confidence in our leaders in Washington to address the fundamental challenges facing our economy is keeping them and prospective investors on the sidelines.»

And those investments will help address another challenge facing the Canadian economy: individual and corporate cash reserves, which now stand at more than C$ 500 billion.

Financial institutions in advanced economies face a number of cyclical and structural challenges and need to adapt to low growth and low interest rates, as well as to an evolving market and regulatory environment.

Given current demographic trends, Canada like many developed economies, is facing the challenge of ensuring future economic growth while its domestic labour force ages and its...

I don't have to tell you that the Canadian economy has faced its share of challenges these past few years.

The report was developed over the past year, after the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 revealed that affordability is one of the biggest challenges facing our region's economy.

«We are raising full year EPS guidance today due to the strength of our underlying operating performance of our first two quarters, despite the challenges facing Walmart U.S. in the short term, and the current economy,» said Tom Schoewe, executive vice president and chief financial officer.

The speech concludes that the nature of, and challenges along, the path to prosperity that the Australian economy has taken in the past six years are not much different to those faced when they were considered six years ago.

These visits give me the opportunity to explain what the Federal Reserve is doing and to get your thoughts about the state of our economy and the challenges that you face.

The Canadian economy continues to face serious macroeconomic challenges, the most important of which is addressing the burden of a slow - growth recovery, according to a report from the C.D. Howe...

And indeed, Canada's economy does face challenges in the longer term: an aging population, a shrinking workforce, sluggish productivity growth.

The Washington Consensus on global economic policy is dead World economy faces heightened risk of fragmentation, nationalismBuilding support for a new unifying economic paradigm to replace the discredited Washington Consensus will be an analytically challenging, politically demanding, and time - consuming process, writes Mohamed El - Erian.

Various studies have suggested that improving gender parity may result in significant economic dividends, which vary depending on the situation of different economies and the specific challenges they are facing.

Do take into account that the world's second - largest economy faces material challenges.

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Angola is Africa's second - largest oil producer behind Nigeria, and like its West African counterpart, where the slump in oil prices forced a reconsideration of its dependence on oil, Angola now faces the challenge of having to restructure its economy to reduce its vulnerability to oil shocks.

The Conditions at Sea: Worldwide Circumstances Distracting Investors Since the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009, investors have been obsessed with macroeconomic themes and distracted by various worldwide circumstances, including deflation in Japan; the state of global banks; financial instability in Greece, Cyprus and the European Union; and the challenges facing the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

However, the Fed faces a challenge: it must deflate the housing bubble, contain inflation and yet does not want to throw the U.S. economy into depression.

Some other challenges and threats that you are likely going to face is economic downturn; if the economy is in bad shape, history has it that office cleaning services businesses and any other businesses that offer cleaning services usually struggle to maintain their old customers or even welcome new customers.

But that access is also the greatest challenge small businesses face, threatening the very fabric of the American economy.

Preparing Australians to fully realise their potential as the economy digitises is a challenge facing every business and individual.

With the province's economy growing but unemployment rates remaining unchanged, he faces the challenge of proving the government's job creation plan is working as the provincial economy recovers from the sharp decline of international oil prices.

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The elections will take place against the backdrop of rising economic challenges facing Africa's economy.

The biblical view clearly mandates the first alternative (be cause when it is correctly carried out, the second is under stood in its proper light), and repeatedly describes the second as the primary temptation that needs to be overcome Perhaps the most significant challenge facing Christian today is determining how to resist an economy that thwarts or disfigures Christian care.

Another is that the challenges facing the cocoa sector deal with power and political economy, and are not just «technical».

«Similar to a lot of businesses, there are challenges in the economy that we face every day,» he says, explaining that even though BelCanto looks for areas to trim costs, marketing is not one of them.

Sustainability in Packaging Europe is the only European packaging event designed to offer a 360 degree perspective on the key challenges and solutions the supply chain is faced with to evolve towards sustainable practices for packaging and a circular economy.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

For six consecutive years — dating to 2011 — the Park District opted to freeze its tax levy out of consideration to residents and the financial challenges many faced in a recovering economy.

The launch is expected to announce policies, programmes and offer cutting - edge and top — notch solutions to the challenges facing the Ghanaian economy under the leadership of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), the statement explained.

Haruna Iddrisu says even though there are challenges facing the economy, youth unemployment and problems with the education system, the President has put in place the requisite measures to address them hence he must be supported.

«The securities industry, which is a critical component of the economies of New York City and New York state, faces continued challenges as it works through the fallout from the financial crisis and adjusts to regulatory reforms.»

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Akufo - Addo, attacked Moody's rating of the Ghanaian economy, saying it did not consider the actual challenges Ghanaians are facing hence the need to disregard such ratings.