Sentences with phrase «economic functions of»

Collaborate with parents to provide the necessary referrals to improve the social economic functions of children and their families.

The samples from Indonesia were taken within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre «Ecological and Socio - economic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems» (University of Göttingen).

It is important not to lose sight of the political and economic functions of the system of haggling in African countries and the context that enables the informal economy to thrive.

Though Marx and Engels later avoided the philosophical language of their early years, and in the Manifesto of the Communist Party laughed at the German literati who «beneath the French criticism of the economic functions of money... wrote «Alienation of Humanity,» 6 they always recognized that «The German Working class movement is the heir of German classical philosophy.

Within the social studies, technology has served a dual role as an important instructional tool that may have a significant effect on the global, political, social, and economic functioning of American society.

A major economic function of Turneffe Atoll, for instance, is the protection of Belize City from hurricanes, which economists value at more than ninety million dollars annually.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles is equally engaged in uncovering the often - arbitrary limits between ecology and the economic functioning of the urban landscape.

Which bears out my main contention here — that there is now an overlap, at 2C, between mainstream climatology and lukewarmers, and the next step is to go see what a 2C elevation means in terms of economic functioning of the human species.

Not exact matches

First, the court found that the term «commodity» encompasses virtual currency «both in economic function and in the language of the statute.»

But such is the power of economic gravity that American presidents and Canadian prime ministers don't necessarily have to get along for commerce to function.

«The rebuilding of the town will be a function of the economic activity and prospects of Fort McMurray,» he says.

Companies increasingly find that their economic value is a function of the strength of the habits they create.

Modi's political success and promises of economic reform in spite of these bumps suggest that the new prime minister could function as a reformer in the American mold.

«The theory is that if new industries that are not competitive are subsidized they will eventually mature and be able to function on their own,» said University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox at a conference last June, citing studies suggesting clean energy policies in Denmark, Germany and Spain are a drag on economic growth.

Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

«With the modest economic recovery of the past few years, finance functions are preparing the enterprise for challenges that could materialize at any time by working to preserve margins and by sustaining a strong focus on working capital management,» said a Protiviti managing director in a release.

Deputy Governor Lynn Patterson discusses the Bank of Canada's core functions and the global and Canadian economic outlook.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said that the company has a commitment to the establishment of new partnerships with cities in Europe «to ensure innovation, harness powerful economic benefits and promote core city functions.»

In my September 1 blog entry I argued that economists typically focus on managing the asset side of the balance sheet, and almost never on the liability side, because they implicitly understand both the extent and the nature of economic growth to be almost wholly a function of the ways in which assets are managed.

If WEDC was functioning as an even minimally engaged economic development agency, it could be expected to respond to dramatic corporate shakeups that could influence the future of Wisconsin employers with a sense of urgency.

This mistaken belief that American savings are wholly a function of American household preferences arises because most economists — and, it seems, policymakers — can only imagine American households as autonomous economic units, and are seemingly incapable of imaging them as units within a system in which there are certain inflexible constraints.

The Council performs a similar function to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee in the United States.

Transaction or «use» demand will also increase because of Bitcoin's capacity to administer countless economic and social functions beyond value transfer, including messaging, proof of authorship, land and title registry, and identity / naming.

Some postulate that the neutral rate is in part a function of economic productivity and population growth and that the low interest rate structure evident today reflects the current low productivity level.

They should be there to function to allow the economy to operate — the extension of credit, the availability of credit when money gets turned off, the economy shuts — and so I actually think that banks might be getting a pass to be able to develop using these technologies to bolster their economic utility to the rest of the economy as opposed to being disrupted away.

Real economic growth is a function of two factors: hours worked and productivity growth.

This makes China's economic reaction function somewhat difficult for market participants to anticipate, because reactions on changing economic conditions may come in the form of fiscal or monetary policy, or a combination of both (the «dual bazooka» approach).

The court answered both questions in the affirmative and held that the CFTC can pursue fraud and manipulation claims in virtual currency spot markets.5 First, the court found that the term «commodity» encompasses virtual currency «both in economic function and in the language of the statute.»

The general function of life insurance is to create a sum of money payable at the death of the insured in order to replace the economic loss resulting from the person's death.

Marriages were typically based on economic considerations, not love, with wives holding a higher position than slaves in the household, but still functioning in many ways as the property of their husbands, who could do with them as they willed.

Its distinctive character as an aspect of nature ceased to function in economic theory.

The programme of dismantling the state, reducing its functions, pilfering its resources and launching sweeping privatizations leads to a demoralized public sector, weakened systems of education and health and the eventual usurping of the state by private economic interests.

That the major function of governments is to create a favorable context for economic activity is now almost a truism.

Those means of communication which are competitive co-exist through a process of reordering and by carving out a competitive place and function within a social or economic market.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Tawney argued for the subordination of gain to function and of economic life to principles of justice.

Whereas in the West «truth» exists as a function of organized will and its eventuality in success, for Muslims the social, economic, political and military orders are all expressions of a fundamental religious truth.

Communism, socialism, and every government - run economic plan to redistribute the wealth functions on the principle of taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor.

Most people were prone to perceive multiple influences and causes, including supernatural intervention, social and cultural forces, the functioning of heredity and will power, economic conditions, and luck.

This is compounded by the nature of their economic and social function.

This does seem to be carrying the principle of «economic rationality» so far that its positive functions disappear.

Christian Lalive d'Epinay proposed a similar sociological argument explaining the growth of Pentecostalism as a function of the social, political, and economic crisis in Latin America produced by the rapid urbanization of traditional rural peoples.

Predation is part of the way nature functions and humans are indeed part of nature, but there is something wrong with the form of predation that is inherent in unbridled economic or social competition among humans.

Provision for economic security is a necessary function of modern government, but it is not government's chief end and should be kept within careful limits.

According to the Century, «the new system calls pre-eminently for an economic man of cooperative, unselfish self - restraint, operating in a limited market determined according to a social plan,» and the only agency in the United States capable of calling forth that individual was the Christian church: «The function of the Christian church is to provide the new economic man whose birth and growth will match the birth and growth of the new economic system.»

Equally alarming, it is virtually impossible for a member of Congress or an ordinary citizen to obtain even a modest handle on the actual size of military spending or its impact on the structure and functioning of our economic system.

The purpose of economic development, then, should be not the production of more and more goods, or the creation of more and more wealth, but rather the expansion of people's capabilities to function and thrive in their communities.

However, this type of critique is essential in order to achieve delegitimation but it only goes half way to a solution if it does not integrate an analysis of social relations and a critique of the economic function.

But in the present policy of globalisation and liberalization the function of the state is only to make the climate safe for the market and withdraw almost completely from the realm of economic goals, leaving the market alone to determine them.

But, while the community action programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to «organize» communities, the AFLA contemplates implementation by functioning groups already (if precariously) in place.