Sentences with phrase «changing economic context»

In response to the rapidly changing economic context, the Joyce Foundation will support efforts to dramatically reimagine K - 12 classroom teaching / learning models, and help shape the policy landscape so that it is more open to them.

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This course explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context.

The political and economic context in the UK is still changing rapidly following last month's referendum, but there are now signs that the market is beginning to calm as stability begins to re-emerge.

Efforts to find shared value in operating practices and in the social dimensions of competitive context have the potential not only to foster economic and social development but to change the way companies and society think about each other.

Paying attention to the larger dynamics of economic and political change in the world system can also help us understand better the contexts and forces to which immediate decisions are subject.

In the context of a changing global nutrition landscape, influenced by economic and income growth, urbanization, demographic change and globalization, diet - related epidemiology has seen a significant shift in recent decades.

Reading the history of the Anglicans in the 20th century, through the records of the Lambeth Conferences, ACCs and Primates» meetings, one sees the faithfulness of God through world war, economic crisis, civil and international conflicts, persecution and deep changes in cultural context.

The first are changing circumstances in the national economic context.

But it may also — and importantly — be because these changes make it harder for them to operate economically: they developed skills in one economic era which aren't so effective in a fully networked, online and international context.

«Change» has emotional resonance, particularly in a context of economic stagnation and political exclusion.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.

Decisions made today are made in the context of confident projections of future warming with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on climate change and how to frame these issues in the context of other concerns.

One avenue of our translational research aims to determine the impact of in utero HIV - 1 exposure on infant immunity to vaccinations and co-infections by dissecting the infant immune repertoire present at birth in the context of maternal HIV - 1 infection and how the infant T cell repertoire changes following early life exposures compared to infants born to the HIV - 1 uninfected women of similar socio - economic status.

Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (AS Level) a) Aggregate Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

«Educational improvement is typically understood as helping educational institutions become more effective at achieving their goals,» he says, «but the social and economic context is changing more rapidly than education institutions.»

This study by Marguerite Roza, Suzanne Simburg, Jim Simpkins uses data from Seattle Public Schools to explore actual salary changes amidst rapid changes in economic context and the effect of the recession on teacher pay.

Models and strategies of change and conflict resolution as applied to the larger political, social, cultural and economic contexts of schooling.

In addition to the shifts in demographics, the economic context of education within California changed in the early 21st century.

Using quantitative and spatial methods, her dissertation examines the links between neighborhood and school composition, with a focus on neighborhoods undergoing economic change, and how neighborhood and school contexts matter for children's outcomes.

Writers often lack the context or insight to understand our own industry, even as that industry undergoes massive structural and economic changes.

Priorities and targets in the key intervention areas of education, health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene and sustainable economic activities are reviewed and adjusted based on these results and the dynamic / changing local context.

This 13 - hour Marathon unfolded through interviews, presentations, panels, performances and music sets that focus on a generation that over the last couple of years has already been changing the cultural, economic and political context of Mexico and the Americas at large.

Drawn from the Tate Collection, which is itself a host of creative processes with its own laws of hospitality, Thresholds looks at the ways of understanding what art means in a wider realm of culture and society where hegemonic power structures and changing political and economic environments become the fabric of art rather than a mere context.

This wonderful exhibition catalogue provides context to these iconic pieces and explores the 1930s — a fascinating yet uncertain time for America, marked by rapid economic and social change.

------------------ From reading these quotes in context within pp. 268 - 270 +, it seems to me this is more about economic losses due to hurricanes & floods (human / human - structure exposure and vulnerability), and not about overall possible changing patterns in such extreme events.

I also fail to understand how verification and validation is wrong within the context of making economic and societal changes based on a theory.

In 2003, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development published a report on water and hydropower issues in Nepal in the context of climate change, concluding:

In other words, the study does a simple physical analysis of the trade off between conventional mitigation and negative emissions technologies in a 2C world and makes no assumptions about changing economic, technological and sociopolitical contexts, the authors note.

In this context, it is refreshing to see a new paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research by Alan Barreca et al., titled, «Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature - Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century.»

This study draws attention to new «hotspots» that could emerge from the synergies between different sectors and the interplay of economic activity with political and social developments in the context of climate change and cumulative environmental impacts.

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

Brenner MH, Mooney A: Unemployment and health in the context of economic change.

It discusses the assessment of climate change impacts on forest regulating services using an ecosystem based valuation approach and finally presents the economic valuation exercise, and corresponding monetary estimation results of forest sequestration services in the context of climate change.

Technologically, a comprehensive and economic series of changes are available to transform the self - destructive industrial present to make economic growth men ecological improvement in the context of a global pursuit of social and ecological justice.

The precise mechanisms by which climate change affects Native communities are poorly understood, especially in the context of rapid social, economic, and cultural change.

Given the current socio - economic, political and environmental context, the countries with more risks of losses and damages due to extreme weather events and slow onset events are developing countries, those which have contributed the least to climate change and those less capable of adapting to its impacts.

In a related note, Geopolitics.com re-ran this essay on the philosophical and economic context of climate change as statism versus free markets:

Furthermore, it is acknowledged that the impacts of future climate change will occur in the context of an evolving socio - economic baseline.

In fragile contexts more than anywhere else, it is essential to realise how climate impacts — such as changing rainfall patterns, increased natural disasters and constraints to carbon - based economic growth — will have knock - on consequences on the national economy, trade, development, equity, governance and political stability.

An important key to success will be developing the capacity to incorporate climate change information into adaptation in the context of other important technological, social, economic and ecological trends.

Participants in the webinars examined frameworks for global development goals and connections to health indicators, the role for health in the context of novel sustainable economic frameworks that go beyond gross domestic product, and scenarios to project climate change impacts and health outcomes.

As Roger Pielke, Jr. has argued in the context of climate change, «when policies focused on economic growth confront policies focused on emissions reductions, it is economic growth that will win out every time.»

The LETR was undertaken by the UK Centre for Legal Education, examining the provision of legal education in the context of the current economic, technological, market and funding changes shaping the legal services market.

The mandate of this panel would be to review Ontario's past experience with minimum wage revisions within the context of Ontario's social and economic progress and prevailing practices in other jurisdictions to recommend changes that could better serve Ontario's future needs.

The ICN continues to respond flexibly to the changing needs of its many members and to global economic developments, within the context of the focused work carried out by its various substantive and process - related working groups.

In the context of climate change and the potential to leverage economic development opportunities from carbon markets, clarification is required as to the legal recognition of carbon rights in trees on Indigenous lands.