Sentences with phrase «current economic life»

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** PALM BEACH - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan participate in moderated discussion on current economic conditions and monetary policy before the American Council of Life Insurers Executive Roundtable - 2000 GMT.

That trend, however, appears to be reaching a tipping point, with several factors that could boost capex, extending the life of the current economic cycle and offering surprise upside in the next.

Instead, the arithmetic of economic expansion - employment growth plus productivity growth - is already constrained by a 4.6 % unemployment rate and a deficit on current account, and seems unlikely to be helped by the current policy direction, aside from rather short - lived effects.

Living Goods told us that its current focus in Kenya is on selling «durables that deliver proven economic impact» such as high - efficiency cookstoves and solar lights.20

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

While you shouldn't move overseas solely because a country is a cheap place to live, in today's current economic climate, cost of living is a major factor.

At the beginning of June, Russia's Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin said that Russia was «actually ready to live forever at oil prices $ 40 or below,» as oil at US$ 40 is the current underlying key assumption of Russia's economic policies.

The OPEC / non-OPEC deal is working, and the current underlying key assumption of Russia's economic policies — oil prices at US$ 40 — can allow it to live forever at that price or below, Russia's Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin told Bloomberg in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Teconomic policies — oil prices at US$ 40 — can allow it to live forever at that price or below, Russia's Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin told Bloomberg in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on TEconomic Forum on Thursday.

Citing both historical data and current economic trends, Templeton Global Equity Group's Norm Boersma, Cindy Sweeting and Heather Arnold maintain their belief that value's comeback will not likely be short - lived.

It is quite clear from the current economic debacle that the flourishing of our civic life depends on faith as well.

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

A darker assessment of current child well - being would accord more consistently with what Mintz's entire history reveals: that economic and social trends afflicting adults» lives have an even more negative impact upon the lives of children.

It is incumbent on those of us who are in position to influence the thinking of faithful people to make clear that the neo-liberal economic thought that informs most current top - down development, riding roughshod over communities, and reshaping the lives and thinking of hundreds of millions of people, is based on assumptions that are antithetical to ours.

A detailed economic examination of the current market and available data reveals that transitioning from the live sheep trade is achievable in way that ensures that farmers are not negatively impacted.

Personally, identifying as a radical doula means acknowledging the ways in which current socio - economic systems negatively affect the reproductive experiences of queer folks, women of color, and those living in poverty.

«At this critical stage in our country where people are fast losing hope in politicians to address the current economic crisis and deal with corruption, Ghana needs a leader who is honest, decisive, incorruptible, and competent, to improve the lives of the citizenry,» Mrs. Akufo - Addo, who is sometimes addressed by some NPP elements as «First Lady In - Waiting,» said.

Governor Wike had recently blamed the current economic recession in the country for his administration's failure to live up to expectation and the INEC and Police for the misfortunes of PDP in the elections of the state.

Adekomi commended the state government for living up to its statutory obligations even in the face of the current economic realities.

Recognising that the country has to live within its means, that Labour should tackle the deficit fairly and that a Labour government inheriting a current account deficit in 2020 should pay it down without jeopardising sustainable economic growth is, again, good to hear.

Among the reforms — which have now been endorsed by 30 current and expected members — is a push to add transparency to member items by distributing them equally or according to an objective formula based on how many people live in a district or their economic needs.

The lawmaker, who criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for not having an independent economic team to drive Nigerian economy out of recession, pointed out that many lives would have been lost before the current reforms are completed.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Shehu Sani, has warned the Federal Government to put in place short - term measures to cushion the effect of the current economic crisis on the Nigerian masses or risk the lives of the people before he completes his reforms.

Study co-author Linda - Gail Bekker, MD, PhD — Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and current President of the International AIDS Society — says, «Whether the yardstick is mortality, life expectancy or new transmissions, these reductions would almost certainly produce proportionally greater harm than savings — do more human harm than economic good.»

Our current economic system has lifted billions of people and entire nations out of poverty, and provides most people in the developed world with a standard of living that royalty couldn't dream of a century or two ago.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

In the current economic climate, whole life - cycle costs are very important.

Perfect for any economics or politics examination, or as a teaching resource - this comprehensive analysis of current economic statistics is guaranteed to be used to full effect, whether you want to relate economic theory to real life, or as a tool to pass your exams.

Equitable access of all human beings, in current and future generations, to the conditions needed for human well - being — socio - cultural, economic, political, ecological, and in particular food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, healthy living, and satisfying social and cultural relations — without endangering any other person's access; equity between humans and other elements of nature; and social, economic, and environmental justice for all.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

«Most Likely to Succeed» pushes us to radically re-imagine American education so that we better equip students for current and future economic realities by bringing us along as it dives deeply into life and learning at CES affiliate High Tech High.

To view DOT performance across an array of safety, state of good repair, economic competitiveness, quality of life, environmental sustainability, national security preparedness, and organizational excellence measures, refer to the current DOT Performance Summary tables.

Citing both historical data and current economic trends, Templeton Global Equity Group's Norm Boersma, Cindy Sweeting and Heather Arnold maintain their belief that value's comeback will not likely be short - lived.

But current economic and market conditions are in fact creating an environment for buyers that may be extremely favorable but not long - lived.

In light of the current economic climate that we are all living under, continued high unemployment, a mortgage crisis that's now turned into a foreclosure crisis; the issue of utilizing credit histories for employment purposes is a topic of growing importance.

Quick question: I live in Rio and often pay for off - peak deep - discounted tickets on AA to the States for a ridiculously low price, especially given Brazil's current economic downfall - I think all of the airlines are begging Brazilians to travel.

Current difficulties with «making a living» from one's art is purely due to the downturn in global economic downturn and I, as a single example, am struggling to keep my head above water until the art market picks up again — to drop my prices by up to 99 % just to get more sales, would be total artistic suicide!

(Warsaw, Poland) The theme of the exhibition «Slow Future» is degrowth, a social movement advocating that we should abandon the current model of compulsory economic growth and search for ways to improve the quality of life within the limits of capacity of natural environment.

(Warsaw, Poland) Under the theme «degrowth», a social movement which argues against the current compulsory economic growth and favours ways of improving life quality within the natural environment, the exhibition promotes an alternative lifestyle through means and method such as recycling and green transport.

The theme of the exhibition «Slow Future» is degrowth, a social movement advocating that we should abandon the current model of compulsory economic growth and search for ways to improve the quality of life within the limits of capacity of natural environment.

We either stay the current «business as usual» course by continually increasing production, thereby allowing economic globalization to commandeer habitats, expunge biodiversity and engulf the planet, or we stabilize production, a remedy that is consonant with the preservation and nurturance of human and other life on our fragile yet resilient planet.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

By allowing global economic activity to run its current course, come what may, we could unintentionally threaten the lives of our children, biodiversity, global ecosystems and the integrity of Earth.

Clamping down on the current economic order out of fear that an effect is major and immediate rather than moderate and mid-horizon has real effects on global standards of living.

It would make reasonable economic sense to cease using the brown coal when the current power plants using them reach the end of their useful life.

UCS conducted a three - part analysis on the transition away from coal - fired electricity: (1) a look at what happened to the nation's coal - fired generating units between 2008 and 2016; (2) an evaluation of the economic viability of the current coal fleet using an updated «economic stress test»; and (3) an assessment of the demographics of communities living near coal plants.

ECONOMIC OVERVIEW Currency: Australian Dollar ($ A) Market Exchange Rate (5/24/02): US $ 1 = $ A1.79 Nominal Gross Domestic (GDP, 2001E): U.S. $ 365.8 billion Real GDP Growth Rate (2001E): 4.1 % (2002F): 3.8 % Inflation Rate (2001E): 4.3 % (2002F): 3.0 % Unemployment Rate (2001E): 6.9 % (2002F): 7.0 % Current Account Balance (2001E): - $ 15.3 billion (2002F): - $ 16.9 billion Major Trading Partners: Japan, other Far East, European Union, United States Major Export Products: crude materials, food and live animals, mineral fuels and lubricants Major Import Products: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, chemicals

Driving his work are two main convictions: 1) Our current environmental problems — climate change, biodiversity losses, peak fossil fuels, natural resource over consumption — are but symptoms of the greater problem of fetishizing material economic growth; and 2) only by first changing our minds, recognized the literal and metaphorical interconnected nature of all life, will we make the lasting external changes required to create an ecologically sustainable civilization.

These large human impacts on the Earth System must be considered within the context of the large global economic inequality to realize that current levels of resource extraction and throughput only support societies at First World living standards for ∼ 17 % of the world's current population [1].

Consumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing power parity).

Life can be hard for start - up companies, particularly in the current economic climate.