Sentences with phrase «direct economic costs»

Putting more emphasis in development of new technologies, on better understanding of the working of economic incentives and on more detailed knowledge on the actual threats as well as naturally occurring adaptive processes is likely to lead to both better results in the relevant long term and to lower costs of all types (not only direct economic costs).

The CDC estimates that the direct economic cost of those infections is between $ 28 billion and $ 34 billion a year.

Not exact matches

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Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

Congress should direct the GAO to initiate a comprehensive study to understand and quantify the economic costs and overall impact of senior financial exploitation.

As such, their study showed that informal economies account for 30 % of direct costs to internet disruptions — amplifying the previous estimates of loss percentages and their direct socio - economic impact.

So economic analysis is trivialized if it only takes into account direct production costs reducible to labor, not taxes or «economic rent» as an element of price with no counterpart in technologically necessary production costs — land rent, monopoly rent (including bank credit - creating privileges), interest charges and kindred transfer payments to rentiers.

and safety laws and regulations; immigration laws; and employment laws, could decrease foreign direct investment in the United Kingdom, increase costs, depress economic activity, and restrict our access to capital.

Beyond the human direct costs engendered by the current global economic regime, the blind pressure on the natural environment induces frightening consequences.

But earlier this year, the state's economic development entity directed $ 70 million of that funding to cover the cost of an LED factory that SUNY Poly and COR are building in DeWitt.

Economic stimulus funding through the federal Recovery Act will direct $ 19 million towards Oneida County over the next two years to help deal with Medicaid costs.

But he is concerned that there is little new money for direct costs, a concern echoed by Ian Diamond, chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council.

The total economic burden of migraine in the U.S., including direct medical costs and indirect costs such as lost workdays, is estimated at $ 17 billion annually.

As Shepard and his colleagues point out, however, the direct medical cost of an illness is only part of its overall economic burden.

Based on other research that examined the economic burden of dengue on low - and middle - income countries elsewhere in the world, the study researchers determined that the direct medical costs of the disease represent only 49 percent of the disease's overall costs.

They also cost the Chinese economy more than 200 billion yuan ($ 32 billion) annually in direct economic damage.

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The approach is a simplified catastrophe risk assessment, to calculate the direct costs of storm surges under scenarios of sea level rise, coupled to an economic input — output (IO) model.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

The obsession restricted focus to higher temperatures and increased CO2, which directed funding of impact analyses, whether economic or environmental to cost only, instead of cost / benefit.

Unlike Navigant, Daymark considered both direct utility values and societal and economic benefit and cost categories.

«There is a direct link between coal - based, low - cost electricity and economic prosperity... On all fronts, we need a strong sense of urgency to support the people and the industry who have fueled the American Dream, and who will continue to do so.»

The most direct method may be to shift away from the tried and true method of economic dispatch (satisfying electricity demand with the generators that can do it at lowest cost) and adopting a new method of environmental dispatch.

I directed economic modelling of the cost of Kyoto for the State of Queensland.

Lets consider what needs happen for Bitcoin to become a success in terms of its claimed intended purpose of enabling economic transactions to be performed over the internet with no additional costs which we would expect when using the more conventional banking options of direct transfer, Paypal, Credit card etc..

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).

Annual smoking - attributable economic costs in the United States exceed $ 289 billion a year, including costs for direct medical care and lost productivity.

An individual exploiter of an unregulated commons has sound economic incentive to continue or even intensify his exploitation, as long as he gains direct benefit greater than the sum of his direct cost plus his perceived share of the externalized cost.

These risks and / or challenges raise the cost of investment and may deter foreign direct investment altogether which may adversely affect economic growth.

[59] Cost of illness measures the economic costs associated with treating the disease (direct costs) and lost income associated with morbidity and mortality (indirect costs).

Executive Order 12866 directs agencies to assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, when regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety effects; distributive impacts; and equity).

An economic analysis by the health department found that the contraception program allowed Colorado to save $ 50 million to $ 110 million in direct Medicaid costs from 2010 to 2013, Teal said.

The TIC - P is a self - report measure that covers three economic domains: direct medical costs, indirect medical costs and indirect non-medical costs.

Poor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be directed?