Sentences with phrase «economic assessments from»

On the economy, Cameron references positive economic assessments from global organisations.

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Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

It relies upon 13 expert data sources, including assessments from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the World Economic Forum, to determine levels of bribery, diversion of public funds, use of public office for private gain and other issues of corruption.

Opposition came in part from Grant Gibbons, shadow minister of economic development and a member of political party One Bermuda Alliance, who had concerns about the details and lack of economic impact assessment.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Today's visit is in that spirit — I want to talk about what we are seeing in the economy but also to hear from you firsthand about your assessment of economic conditions.

Much of the discussions involved detailed economic presentations from staff members and assessments by Fed officials.

Lomiko Metals» (TSXV: LMR) story will be driven by drilling results from the Refractory Zone and the new resource estimate and preliminary economic assessment of La Loutre that will result from that work.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, pulling together assessments from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Policy Center, the Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, found that workers would only receive a quarter or less of the benefits from tax cuts — and among those workers, it's likely the higher earners that would benefit.

«The significant restructuring of the corporate franchise tax, broad - based business tax rate reductions, and expedited business relief from the Section 18 - a energy assessment will also improve the state's economic competitiveness and help the economy grow.

But what seems to have been missed from this assessment is that more than 67 % of people voted Yes (i.e. Remain) in the 1975 referendum on our membership of what was then the European Economic Community.

It drew sharp criticism from Labour MP Pat McFadden, who alleged: «Without an assessment, you have mortgaged the country's economic future to a soundbite.»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — COR Development, the company undertaking a $ 324 million development of Syracuse's Inner Harbor, ditched the city's economic development agency to seek help from Onondaga County because the city unfairly hiked COR's tax assessment, company President Steve Aiello said today.

Central New York's economy continues to lag behind other Upstate New York communities according to an assessment of last year's regional economic trends from last year.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

It aims to provide what it calls the first - ever «comprehensive assessment of the economic risks our nation faces from the changing climate.»

They highlight an economic assessment based on a mathematical model adapted to the UK HIV epidemic in men who have sex with men suggests that providing targeted PrEP to this group from 2016 would be cost - effective at current prices, or without targeted implementation if Truvada was half the price.

For the three subprojects proposed here, the synthesis tools to be established within BIOACID range from meta - analysis techniques over regional and global numerical ecosystem models to economic methods of integrated assessment.

Methods: To understand the effects of economic forces from climate policy on terrestrial carbon and land use changes, the researchers used the MiniCAM, an integrated assessment model developed by the PNNL team over the last two decades, to compare different scenarios.

The global ed - tech market is already estimated to be worth $ 43.27 (# 30) billion, yet the first assessment of digital skills from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) suggests that schools have some way to go in fully taking advantage of the potential of technology in the classroom.

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

According to the latest international math and science assessment conducted by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)(see Figure 1), the United States remains a long distance from that target.

Our risk assessment for JNJ reflects that its products are largely immune from economic cycles, that it does not rely on any single product category or customer for sustained growth and that it enjoys competitive advantages owing to its substantial financial resources, business scale and global sales capabilities.

In any case, the euro had a more mixed performance while trading roughly sideways after that before finally catching a bid come Thursday, apparently because of comments from ECB's Cœuré, the positive economic forecasts from the European Commission, and the ECB's upbeat economic assessment.

The proportion of the Allocation Fund's portfolio invested in each asset class will vary from time to time based on the Manager's assessment of relative fundamental values of securities and other investments in the class, the attractiveness of the investment opportunities within each asset class, general market and economic conditions, and expected future returns of investments.

The assessment showed that the neighborhoods from which we receive the highest number of lost, unwanted and abandoned pets are also the neighborhoods struggling the most with economic and social issues.

Another difficulty is that for economic reasons, assessment of breeding dogs is made from only 3 MRI sequences of a limited anatomical area that does not include the entire cranial fossa [32].

In a collaborative partnership beginning in March, the Cultural Policy Class from Drury University Arts Administration Program completed cultural impact assessments of perceived artistic, environmental, economic and social value of two projects of the ideaXfactory — The Beaux Arts Ball and the Morning Song / Evening Song sound installation.

Many economic assessments of climate change policies completed to date, especially from opponents of the Waxman - Markey bill (H.R. 2454), make a flawed argument that meeting...

Estimated sectoral economic potential for global mitigation for different regions as a function of carbon price in 2030 from bottom - up studies, compared to the respective baselines assumed in the sector assessments.

Carbon Tracker believes that fossil fuel management are overly focused on demand and price scenarios that assume business as usual and so there may be a risk assessment «gap» between a management's view of the future and that which would result from action on climate change, technology developments and changing economic assumptions.

They include Annex 1 (industrialised) countries» baseline emissions; qualitative and quantitative assessments of the role of carbon sinks; and the difficulty from an economic and legal perspective of interpreting and inferring impacts in relation to specific provisions attached to each flexibility mechanism for regulating the extent of their use.

-- by examining the question from different vantage points: from that of global integrated assessment models, from bottom - up studies of individual economic sectors, and from published work on the mitigation potential in international aviation and shipping emissions.

The assessment quantifies the economic trade - offs between unsustainable and sustainable forms of land use, and considers the role of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and broader Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes in achieving balanced conservation and development objectives.

• Tools, datasets, and land management information to support coastal planning, including better data and resources provided via platforms that improve their usability by decision makers • Linking physical vulnerability with economic analysis, planning, and assessment of adaptation options • Improving understanding of increased risks of and damage from coastal storm surge flooding • Developing risk - management approaches for coastal development and local land - use planning

UCS conducted a three - part analysis on the transition away from coal - fired electricity: (1) a look at what happened to the nation's coal - fired generating units between 2008 and 2016; (2) an evaluation of the economic viability of the current coal fleet using an updated «economic stress test»; and (3) an assessment of the demographics of communities living near coal plants.

Priority is given to peer - reviewed scientific, technical, and social - economic literature, but other sources such as reports from government and industry can be crucial for IPCC assessments.

Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) used by researchers today — where climate change data is integrated with economic data — are dangerously flawed because they are based on naïve assumptions, according to Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change at the University of Manchester, UK.

It can only come from a simple, pragmatic assessment of complexity and scientific uncertainty — feeding into development and energy scenarios that enhance human dignity and foster economic growth.

To cover this vast amount of ground, it discusses, at a high level, subjects ranging from observations of various parts of the climate system and climate modelling to the limits of economic assessments, the different pathways of greenhouse gas emissions considered, adaptation response strategies and methods of mitigation that include everything from from taxing greenhouse gas emissions to removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.

The concluding document of its fourth assessment report stated: «Climate change is expected to exacerbate current stresses on water resources from population growth and economic and land - use change, including urbanisation.»

Being able to better rule out low probability / high climate sensitivities can change assessments of the potential economic damages resulting from climate change.

The main points arising from the regional assessment were that the Arctic is extremely vulnerable to projected climate change — major physical, ecological, sociological, and economic impacts are expected.

Soon, the Obama administration published a five - page talking points memo assailing the economic assessment — written by two young, non-economist, pro-wind activists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Boulder, Colorado.

Combine the estimates from steps 4 and 5 to produce an assessment of the net economic effect of different scenarios and thereby identify the optimum path of emissions.

Accordingly, it follows from all of the foregoing that, in view of the objectives underlying Article [107 (1) TFEU] and the private investor test, an economic advantage must — even where it has been granted through fiscal means — be assessed inter alia in the light of the private investor test, if, on conclusion of the global assessment that may be required, it appears that, notwithstanding the fact that the means used were instruments of State power, the Member State concerned conferred that advantage in its capacity as shareholder of the undertaking belonging to it.»

Studies on economic stress and marital dissolution In standard economic models of marriage, pecuniary gains from a spouse play a central role in the assessment of fit of a relationship (Becker, Landes, & Michael, 1977; Charles & Stephens, 2004).

Federal regulations, 45 CFR 302.56, further require that the guidelines be reviewed at least once every four years and that such reviews include an assessment of the most recent economic data on child - rearing costs and a review of data from case files to assure that deviations from the guidelines are limited.

It is also argued that strengths - based interviews and assessments provide graduates from all socio - economic backgrounds with an equal opportunity to succeed.