Sentences with phrase «competition from the private»

In November 2006, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation responded to the competition from private insurers by starting to insure no - down - payment, interest only, and 40 - year amortization mortgages.

But the research institutes are facing stiff competition from the private sector, which is more good news for young scientists.

Because the loss of students to private schools may have negative repercussions for the heads of public schools, increased competition from private schools should have a positive effect on the efficiency of resource use in the public schools.

Or perhaps Slate is claiming that, faced with the new competition from private schools, Sweden's public schools are falling to pieces and giving up.

Knowing this, public high schools might not react as strongly to competition from a private school scholarship program as would public elementary and middle schools.

Nevertheless, Slate claims that competition from private schools may have led to «a race to the bottom» in Sweden.

«Competition from private schools improves student achievement, and appears to do so for public school as well as private school students.

In the light of policy interest in measures to improve public school performance, this paper studies the e ects of collective parental pressure and competition from private schools on public school

When researchers examined, for example, whether competition from private schools pressed nearby public schools to improve performance, they found that the test scores of students in these competing schools did indeed increase, albeit modestly.

Increased competition from private schools benefits all New Jersey children, not just those attending private schools

The hope was that vouchers would not only benefit the students opting for private schools, but that the competition from private schools would also force the city's long - struggling public schools to improve.

«Competition from privates and charters that place a lot of funding into their advertising and getting their word out.

Ultimately, Arum concluded that it was increased funding at the school level that led to better student outcomes, rather than a direct effect of competition from the private school sector.

As a public school principal and superintendent, I was never afraid of competition from our private and parochial schools.

In fact, it is going to take a much greater infusion of parent choice and private sector influence — meaning competition from private schools, not just a few recovery school experiments — for Georgia's public schools to be even more motivated to improve.

With so much competition from private, parochial and charter schools, administrators have to be more aggressive than ever, Vladovic said.

Libraries have two fundamental problems here: they have less control over the situation than publishers do, and they are about to get some serious competition from the private sector.

However, as market power shifted from securitizers to originators and as intense competition from private securitizers undermined GSE power, mortgage standards declined and risky loans proliferated.

Then in 2006, seeing competition from the private mortgage insurers (also backed 90 % by the Federal Government) they lengthened to 35 years and finally to 40 years in November.

He adds that Home Capital is also offering more competitive mortgage rates as it faces competition from private lenders and other institutions which are not federally - regulated, and not required to apply the new stress test.

They lowered underwriting standards in order to meet competition from private lenders.

Also on the basis of Simpson's models, the effect upon competition from private legal services providers (without distinguishing between informal or formal providers) is as follows: In either type of country (wealthy or poor), wealthy social groups are willing to pay hefty premiums for access to private legal institutions, whereas poor or disadvantaged groups will prefer private legal systems only if they are cheaper to access than the state's.

Simpson's research goes further, to also seek to understand: when a state uses its «property rights institutions» to generate revenue, what effect does it have upon competition from private legal services providers?

After facing tough competition from private sector life insurers, LIC has started gaining market share.

Faced with new competition from private investors using cheap debt, the Rochester, N.Y. - based REIT this year changed its financial formula.

What these groups need is a little competition from the private sector.

In addition to traditional competitors, there has been a significant increase in new competition from private equity funds that have a cyclical high amount of capital to put to work, says Steven Schwartz, a partner heading the acquisitions group at Torchlight Investors, an investment management firm based in New York City.

Not exact matches

The company also stands to benefit from Google's XPrize competition, which promises $ 20 million to the first private company that can land a module on the moon, travel 500 meters across its surface, and beam back high definition video and images.

Greek yogurt maker Chobani, battling intense competition in the grocery aisle, on Monday said it will name a new chief executive to replace its founder and may appoint its acting president, a turnaround expert from private equity firm TPG which lent the company $ 750 million last year.

With an oversupply of private equity firms seeking capital in the region and increased pressure from cash - rich corporates, competition for a smaller pie will only increase.

By the same token, he says, private equity firms face stiff competition from strategic buyers and a growing number of other financing options, including pension funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs).

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

«The most important takeaway is that competition doesn't come only from other private banks.»

And while the biggest banks are certainly government sponsored entities protected from true competition by federal regulation, small banks like Ozarks and Signature represent the private sector.

Of course, the widespread social benefits of vigorous competition make it appropriate for a society to use public - and private - sector initiatives to cushion the most vulnerable people from the worst effects of job loss.

Vertical integration issues go to the heart of competition issues that arise from the supermarket giants having access to information from their suppliers that is not publicly available about the supplier's pricing strategies, costs, margins and advanced innovation plans and how the chains then use that information to develop their private - label brands in competition.

Sales of jams and preserves are falling by about 5 per cent a year, according to Euromonitor, and the sector, worth about $ 120 million a year, is facing increased competition from imports, private label and niche brands.

«The beverage landscape, particularly in Australia and New Zealand, has been evolving over the past five years with increased competition from existing players and greater penetration of value and private label products,» Watkins told investors in August after delivering a 14 per cent fall in June - half profits and warning of a material fall in second - half earnings.

This compares with a price gap of 23 per cent when Choice conducted a similar survey two years ago, highlighting the major chains» strategy of neutralising competition from Aldi by trimming the prices of private label brands to appeal to bargain - hungry shoppers.

The downturn in the supermarket channel, fuelled by intense competition between leading brands - led by discounting from Sara Lee - and the growing popularity of private - label foods, has led Patties Foods to forecast a slightly weaker profit for the full year.

Mondelez, which also makes Philadelphia cream cheese and Natural Confectionery Co lollies, has been cutting costs and trimming investment on research and development to boost margins in the face of pricing pressure in supermarkets, increasing competition from retailers» private label brands, and changing consumer eating habits.

In the middle of admissions season, the state's private schools say their numbers are up, despite the price competition from Cuomo's «free college» Excelsior program, which he last week credited with increasing applications to SUNY and CUNY affiliated schools by 10 percent.

If you want to reduce the advantage of private education and open the sector up to more competition and children from a wider range of backgrounds.

These reforms often involved changes in management style (for instance, the so - called «New Public Management» (NPM), in which concepts from the private sector such as competition, performance indicators, and bonus payments were applied to public administration) or the introduction of computer technology.

«The findings from DFID - commissioned research published in recent years indicates that there is weak evidence that market competition enhances the quality of schools in the private or public sectors.

Most of the competition's funding comes from the state, with additional contributions from private sponsors.

Mr. de Blasio promised to ban the industry outright on «day one» of his administration, but many days later proposed a compromise deal instead — one that would restrict the horses to Central Park, see taxpayers fund a $ 25 million stable for the private industry on public land, and ban one form of competition, pedicabs, from operating in the tourist - rich southern part of the park.

the management of industry by individuals necessarily implies private property, and since competition is in reality merely the manner and form in which the control of industry by private property owners expresses itself, it follows that private property can not be separated from competition and the individual management of industry.

While cross-river competitors judge HealthAlliance management «behind the times,» the blame for all this red ink falls about equally among competition from other hospitals, more private - practice medical facilities and federal Medicare reimbursement rates.

«That this House notes that the Government regulation implementing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.»