Sentences with phrase «comparing economic well»

Income per capita is the most frequently used statistic for comparing economic well - being across countries.

Compare economic well being and political and individual freedom with the rest of the world.

Not exact matches

Canada's economic performance hasn't been very good lately — but compared to the rest of the world we look like a safe harbour

In fact, recent studies by both the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development concluded that Canadian renters get a better deal compared to their owner counterparts than renters in almost every other wealthy country.

The GS folks take a unique and informative approach: they compare a spate of economic indicators in the US to the «Big Five» advanced economy financial crises (taken from the work of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff) as well as to the 2008 European crisis economies.

«During the recession and in its aftermath fewer people voluntarily left jobs because the chances of finding a new or better one were low compared to a healthier economic cycle,» says Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources for CareerBuilder.

The best way to get a thorough understanding of these two subjects is actually read, compare and understand many reports on resource estimates and economic studies, in various stages of development.

One option would be to deliver a stand pat budget in 2014 that simply updates the economic and fiscal numbers, surrounded by a lot of rhetoric on how well Canada is doing compared to other G - 7 countries and how we should be happy we don't live in Greece.

These women seem to have great advantages when compared to women of previous generations or Third World countries or U.S. inner cities — access to the best medical help, committed husbands or partners, advanced educations, good health and economic comforts.

The nutritional, immunological, psychological, and general health advantages conveyed to infants have been documented for years.1 -9 Legovic, 10 listed the merits of human breast milk as compared to artificial feeds to include ideal nutritional content, better absorption, fewer food - related allergies, more favorable psychological development, better immunologic defenses, and a substantial economic advantage.

As I am sure you are well aware of another reason to love nursing (besides all of the bonding, health, and economic benefits), is that breastfeeding is also much more environmentally friendly as compared to formula.

My experience of working and teaching in a public hospital which caters to the poorer socio - economic stratum, as well as in a private hospital, indicates that poor exclusively breastfed babies kept exposed to visitors have less risk of getting infections compared to babies kept in the nursery of a private hospital away from visitors.

Speaking to Radio Ghana, the Head of Finance, School of Business of the University of Cape Coast, Dr. John Gati said for a country like Ghana which has a lot of economic challenges compared to the advanced countries, the number of holidays will not augur well for the country.

The planned Oct. 1 address at a morning breakfast of the Association for a Better New York, now being drafted with the help of several economic experts, including investment banker and CNBC analyst Larry Kudlow, is being compared by Astorino's strategists to the turning - point policy speech delivered by then - freshman state Sen. George Pataki to the Citizens Budget Commission just weeks before he defeated Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

Just one - fifth believe Labour is handling the current economic downturn well compared to 59 per cent who think they are not doing a good job.

Voters also felt Gordon Brown best understands the problems faced by ordinary people during the difficult economic times, with 27 per cent of votes compared to 18 per cent for David Cameron.

The report, «Patents as Proxies: NIH Hubs of Innovation,» confirms an increased economic value of NIH patents as compared to private sector patents, as well as meaningful differences in the rate and quality of invention across different research and development (R&D) investments.

«A basic assumption is that if individuals can obtain sufficient levels of well - being — economic, social and psychological — from living off public benefits, compared to being employed, they would prefer the former.

But the target submitted as part of a pending U.N. deal in Paris in December — to reduce emissions 36 percent per unit of economic output by 2030 compared with 2005 levels as well as peak emissions around 2030 — has not stemmed the criticism.

The same genotypes yield better or worse economic outcomes compared to one's sibling, depending on parental income, according to a new study by a University of Kansas researcher.

According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), «adults with good literacy skills (the equivalent of a good English Language GCSE or better) are much more likely to be in work than those with lower levels of literacy: 83 per cent compared to 55 per cent».

For their calculations of economic impact, the authors estimate the expected growth of a state's economy if the current knowledge capital of workers were to remain unchanged and compare this growth path to the one that would be achieved with better schools.

Compared with its counterparts abroad, the U.S. education system is «mediocre at best,» a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development concludes.

But when she compared the end - of - year test scores of low - income children who had attended preschool to those who hadn't, she found that low - income preschoolers who had attended preschool classes with peers from other economic strata performed the best.

By comparing fourth - grade literacy outcomes against the experiences and inputs that produced these results — including indicators of health - care and preschool access, family economic well - being, mental - health and child - welfare services, nutrition, and comprehensive school quality — we can identify gaps in how we are serving children and target investments and reforms to those areas with the greatest potential to improve children's long - term life outcomes.

If compare the cost to giving away a free Kindle (or highly subsidized higher - end Kindle) to every Prime member who signs up or re-ups for two years vs. a) the revenue gained from the ebooks purchased by those customers, b) the revenue from new Prime members, and c) being able to offer a package which is basically free shipping on all Amazon orders + Netflix + Spotify + a ton of free books + a free Kindle... that's got ta make good economic sense for them, right?

While this is typically a good advice, it does not take into account the fact that the economic conditions may be different for you, compared to say, someone who retired 10 years ago.

Stock markets around the world were volatile due the uncertainty of Euro economic situation — Brexit, but my dividend portfolio did pretty well compare and ended with gain.

So, valuation improvement and earnings growth, combined with economic growth, both contributed to the better performance of the small caps compared to the large caps.

The team also compared these results with regional economic and demographic data, as well as other information that provided clues to the sources — for example, data on human populations, livestock populations, electricity production from power plants, oil and natural gas production, production from oil refineries, rice production, and coal production.

I agree «the main reason for reactor safety is too maintain the economic viability of the reactor for 40 to 60 years» And appropriate, light regulation does that, just as it has succeeded so well for the aviation industry (did you read my comment quoting the article comparing safety in aviation versus healthcare industries?)

The greater number of deaths in winter (in the UK) compared to the summer, better crops due to a longer season and increased «plant» food are two obvious areas of debate, as are the economic benefits by having lower priced energy than will be the case with renewables.

As complicated as this may sound, it's easy to make a decision once all these facts are accounted for — the best way to do that is with an economic analysis, where the solar system is compared to a conventional water heater.

Energy enables us to improve nearly every single aspect of life, whether economic or environmental, and if we look at the big picture of fossil fuels compared with the alternatives, the impact of fossil fuels is to make the world a far better place.

Having past the mist of the elections and the immediate shock of the attempted coup, we expect a stabilised and normalised political and economic environment in Turkey which will hopefully bring the number of deals, as well as the deal values, to higher figures as compared to last few years.

Yesterday (12 October) barrister Jolyon Maugham announced that his Good Law Project was seeking donors towards a judicial review application if the government refused to publish information and reports comparing the predicted economic harm of Brexit with the predicted economic benefits of alternative free trade agreements.

In this chapter, the author explains the economic notion of monopoly power and compares that to the legal concept of monopoly power with the goal of helping lawyers better understand how to address the issue of monopoly power in an exclusion case.

To determine whether it would be better from an economic standpoint for the policy owner to sell or surrender the life insurance policy, the net proceeds that remain from a life settlement after taxes must be compared to the after - tax proceeds an individual would obtain from surrendering the policy.

Australia is a country that has done quite well during all of the economic turmoil seen around the world over the past few years, but the amazing thing is that their car insurance rates have remained quite low when compared to the other four countries on this list.

As reported by The Economic Times, IRDAI said, «It is observed that some of the advertisements containing illustrations being released in the market are not in tune with the (regulations) spirit and hence fail to enable the prospects to compare both scenarios; so as to give better appreciation of possible benefit depending on the yield.»

Even employed young people are pessimistic about their economic prospects: a survey conducted in 2015 showed that half of young Koreans don't believe that they will do better than their parents» generation, compared to 29 percent in 2006.

Branding cryptocurrencies as «an unfounded fad,» he compared it to those previous episodes, as well as other economic situations like the South Sea Bubble from the 1700s.

«Our trade volume in November touched INR 120 crore (US$ 17.6 million), up by 25 percent compared to October, and our revenue grew 25 percent as well,» Agrawal told the Economic Times in an interview yesterday.

Cohabiting couples tend to be younger and have less college education than married couples, and cohabiting fathers tend to have lower incomes and are slightly less likely to be employed than married fathers (77 % compared to 90 %).19 Consequently, cohabiting couples may need more support to build economic stability, including job training and placement, as well as financial education to better manage less income and fewer resources.

The trial will also allow exploratory analyses of the effectiveness of the IY - ASLD programme compared with the control condition as well as the economic costs, including intervention set - up, delivery costs, participant health and social care service use, and parental health - related quality of life.

«Although changes in the Data Book prevent us from comparing this rank to previous years, the trend within many indicators, particularly those of economic well - being, show North Carolina children are losing important ground.»

Our economic well - being ranking continues to be our strongest domain with a 6th place ranking when compared to other states.

Next to offence history, family factors were among the best predictors of recidivism compared to other domains, such as socio - economic status, intellectual functioning, and personal distress (Cottle et al. 2001; Gendreau et al. 1996).

The Report noted that Indigenous Australians continue to experience significantly poorer health outcomes compared to other Australians, as well as disparities in the social determinants of health such as housing, education, income, and economic, political and social participation.