Sentences with phrase «economic activity by»

Chief economist Will Dunning says that government restrictions on mortgage borrowing have set the stage for a steady decline in new home building, which will trigger job losses and a drop in housing related economic activity by 2015.

«A State may understandably wish to encourage development or allow economic activity by enterprises.

«There are several reasons for the current economic crisis we're facing in the United States and globally, but a major contributor has been the suppression of energy production and economic activity by overbearing new regulations, taxes and carbon trading resulting from the misguided belief that anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are causing extraordinary warming of the planet,» said Minnesota Majority president Jeff Davis.

Increase local economic activity by hiring local staff to oversee program operations and water quality testing

This expansion is projected to increase regional economic activity by $ 870 million per year and would ultimately mean an additional 3,800 jobs in local communities.

GHG emissions would increase unless policies decreased the carbon - intensity of economic activity by more than the increase in activity.

Edahiro says for Japan to achieve this, almost all new and existing equipment will have to be highly efficient, and Japan will have to reduce its economic activity by setting a price for carbon, either through a carbon tax or emissions trading.

First, GDP includes economic activity by companies not based in China.

You miss out on economic activity by governments and private companies that way.

However, a more fundamental problem is that you can not invest in all of a country's economic activity by investing in its stock market.

A more correct measure would be the GNP, which excludes economic activity by foreign companies but does include economic activity by domestic companies in foreign markets.

You can't create more real capital or more real economic activity by moving numbers around on paper.

(Think of it as a stick to incentivize the banks to stoke economic activity by lending that money to businesses and consumers instead.)

«Previous work has largely focused on how climate change may affect economic activity by lowering the productivity of workers,» said co-author Kyle Meng, an assistant professor of environmental economics in UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Department of Economics.

Every # 1 billion increase in infrastructure investment sees a corresponding # 1.3 billion rises in UK - wide GDP, and every # 1 billion of infrastructure construction increases overall economic activity by # 2.842 billion.

«The programs have also increased local economic activity by boosting consumer demand.

A recent study also reveals that driver-less vehicles will stimulate nearly $ 7 trillion worth of economic activity by mid-century!

It said the Amazon project over time would boost wages in the state by $ 7.7 billion annually and increase total economic activity by $ 17 billion.

The word «invest» still meant: «To attempt to help create new economic activity by putting capital toward ** economically productive ** uses that benefit the larger society.»

The government centrally takes part in the financing of appropriate economic activity by issuing a series of bonds.

Odd, because as far as I can tell the Greek movement still involves private ownership of the means of production, freedom of contract and the determination of economic activity by the forces of supply and demand.

Bitcoin does not present a threat to economic activity by disrupting traditional channels of commerce; rather, it could serve as a boon....

The existing rules were designed to encourage such economic activities by Canadians.

Not exact matches

The textbook definition of a recession is a downturn in economic activity, characterized by at least two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP).

Manufacturing, which accounts for about 12 percent of U.S. economic activity, is being supported by strong domestic and global demand.

The submarine was designed to «destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time,» the BBC reported.

Southern Nevada's tourism industry brought a record $ 59.6 billion in economic activity in 2016, according to a study by the Las Vegas - based market research firm, which counts the state of Nevada among its clients.

Perhaps reflecting the mixed signals being sent by an economy where equity markets are hot but other economic activity remains tepid, 30 % of respondents to a recent COMPAS poll say additional stimulus spending should «probably not» be made.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

According to data compiled by business management software firm Sage, if just 10 percent of annual spending in San Francisco was redirected from chains to local businesses, it would generate $ 192 million in local economic activity and create almost 1,300 new jobs.

The idea was originally developed in the early 1930s by the Russian - born economist Simon Kuznets, who was commissioned by the U.S. government to come up with a better way to measure economic activity — and guide an increasingly interventionist government policy — than relying on shaky indicators like the stock market and railcar loadings.

This points to economic activity and a labor market still running below their potential, a point highlighted by weak wage growth for most Americans.

In 2008, the Republican convention in Minneapolis generated $ 170 million in economic activity, according to a report by the convention's organizers.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

As widely expected by the markets, the Fed raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday and upgraded its economic outlook, saying that economic activity and jobs gains had been strong in recent months.

It is also the case that the increased economic activity spurred by opening new areas to road travel (which Price decries) has a positive economic impact regardless of its effect on traffic.

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The growth in economic activity has instead been propped up by the acceleration in credit growth and by the failure to write down investments that have created economic activity without having created economic value.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese economic activity rebounded in August, driven by government spending on infrastructure and rising property taxes.

Recent work at the Bank of Canada and elsewhere shows that about half of the slowdown in trade growth among advanced economies in the post-crisis period can be explained by weak economic activity, especially sluggish business investment.

Sure, some things will be rebuilt better than before, but those benefits are likely to be overwhelmed by the disruptions, not only in economic activity, shipping, and so forth, but in the natural resources markets.

And yet the Australian economy avoided a major downturn and turned in a performance on economic activity characterised by no more, and on some metrics slightly less, volatility.

A new study, backed by Facebook, wants to go beyond measuring the impact of internet shutdowns on the formal economy and measure the impact of internet cut - offs on «shadow economies,» namely economic activities that circumvent government regulation, oversight, and taxation.

The researchers at Strathmore University's Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) in Kenya used a 2013 estimate by the economist Friedrich Schneider which showed the average unrecorded economic activity in 49 African countries stood at 37.6 %.

Commodity prices may be affected by a variety of factors at any time, including but not limited to, (i) changes in supply and demand relationships, (ii) governmental programs and policies, (iii) national and international political and economic events, war and terrorist events, (iv) changes in interest and exchange rates, (v) trading activities in commodities and related contracts, (vi) pestilence, technological change and weather, and (vii) the price volatility of a commodity.

Describes how changes made by the Reserve Bank to the cash rate — the «instrument» of monetary policy — flow through to economic activity and inflation.

But this was mostly from the decline in real economic activity in the United States and Europe and the scaling back of global operations, including trade credit, by banks based in the major economies.

A recent study by economic consulting firm Analysis Group and commissioned by OnDeck, measured the impact of the first $ 3 billion lent by OnDeck to small businesses and found that these loans have powered $ 11 billion in business activity and created 74,000 jobs nationwide.

Countries can force up economic growth rates (actual the growth rate of economic activity) simply by mobilizing savings and forcing up investment rates, but ultimately their inability to absorb continuously the higher levels of capital mean that they can not push real wealth per capita beyond some fairly hard constraint represented by their institutional inability to absorb investment.

Bad debts have been a drag on economic activity ever since the financial crisis of 2008, but in recent months, the threat posed by an overhang of bad loans appears to be rising.