Sentences with phrase «dominant economic community»

Hence they supported the policies advocated by the dominant economic community.

When Herman and I wrote that book, we had very little hope of persuading the dominant economic community to change.

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In my opinion, the general realization that policies justified by the dominant economic theory destroy human community and degrade the natural environment should be enough to persuade people of good will that they should look in other directions.

The author critiques the assumptions underlying the dominant market - place economic theory and proposes different assumptions which take into account the fact that people live in communities.

The dominant patterns of economic development throughout the world have been quite the reverse of the development of the person in community.

Particularly important is the report on the challenge of building constituencies for tigers in poor communities where economic development is the dominant concern:

Globally, the dominant economic intervention affecting food pricing is national taxation on food to raise general revenue.17, 18 In Australia, the basic foods required to maintain health were mostly exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and the price of these foods was expected to fall after the introduction of the new tax system in 2000.19 However, in Queensland from 2000 to 2001, the price of a basket of healthy foods increased by 12 %, more than twice that of less healthy options.20 This highlights the unpredictability of complex economic systems and the need for rigorous testing of economic solutions to increase access to healthy food.18 Such testing is imperative within remote communities, but baseline data are not readily available as Australia lacks a comprehensive food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance system.