Sentences with phrase «current global economic crisis»

The Board believes that the current global economic crisis provides significant strategic opportunities to companies such as Avigen that have a strong cash position and public listing.

The country faced a deep recession in the late nineties, and has struggled to recover from the current global economic crisis.

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Geithner, who served under President Barack Obama as secretary of the treasury as the U.S. struggled to rebound from the global financial crisis, said the current political climate could lead to a «diminished capacity to make sensible economic choices.»

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis — and the coming global economic order.

Roubini has been consistently cited as one of the world's top global thinkers after he was able to accurately describe the current economic crisis that began in 2008, many years prior to it happening.

At the moment, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sees the rapid conclusion of the TPP as his absolute priority for at least three reasons: it counters the current crisis of the global economic order, buttresses his domestic legitimacy and represents the anchor for his structural reform agenda.

With the current economic crisis, fear of global warming, and failing environment, this year's Buy Nothing Day has a greater sense of urgency.

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.

Though current economic trends and other global events (e.g., the European sovereign debt crisis) may not change for the better over the short term, the performance of the markets may.

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

The current employment scenario for young people, worsened by the global economic crisis, poses an urgent challenge with long - term implications for both young people and society as a whole.

Though I've got to roll my eyes a bit at Monsieur Vie's own sense of the scale of the current economic woes — the crisis is affecting and is going to affect millions more than «a few people» — his larger point that the environmental crisis and its global implications can not be allowed to take a backseat to the economic one in global agendas is valid.

And yet, despite a long history of scientific warnings (please see Footnote 30 for a detailed description30), the many current ecological and economic impacts and crises, the future risks and dangers, the large number of international meetings and conferences on the urgent need for climate policies and measures, and the adoption of some national and regional climate policies, growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement has not only remained strong but is actually accelerating.

In another high - profile case of active money managers getting squeezed in the current economic crisis, Duke Buchan of Hunter Global Investors is closing his $ 1 - billion hedge fund.

Global central banks, spearheaded by the Federal Reserve Board in the U.S., have expended enormous effort to keep interest rates artificially low since the dawning of the current economic crisis in an attempt to do two things.

On January 27, 2011, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) released its long - awaited report detailing the «causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.»