Sentences with phrase «economic assets»

This investment will ensure it remains a vital economic asset for the region.

It is a key strategy for investing in the most important economic asset we have - the capabilities of the Australian people.

Prices are shaped by supply and demand, like any other economic asset.

For most people, their most valuable economic asset is their ability to earn a living.

It stands today as a major obstacle to leveraging economic assets to create wealth.

Leader - Chivée's newly - released book, Crossing The Thinnest Line, argues that diversity is the single most undervalued and underleveraged economic asset in the US today.

The state's CMP, part of the Department of State, has a 25 - year tradition as a leader in managing the natural and economic assets of New York's coastal areas and exporting knowledge and resources to local municipalities and the nation.

«These investments will further strengthen Long Island's key economic assets and pave the way for its future prosperity,» Governor Cuomo said.

Kidney describes that if governments start to provide guarantees and regulatory support for green bonds, these bonds will obtain a lower risk - profile and will then be able to compete with brown economic assets such as oil and gas.

The rules of «wild capitalism» were such that the privatisation of Russia's economic assets effectively meant the privatisation of Russia's political domain.

«As much as LaGuardia and JFK International are tremendous economic assets to Queens and to the region, with them has come the need to mitigate the direct, daily impacts of growth upon the thousands of families immediately surrounding them.

There is no doubt that one of the biggest economic assets to the region is the low - cost hydropower created at the Niagara Power Project.

A water trading system to conserve supplies By 2070, the value of flood - exposed economic assets in 136 major ports could reach 9 percent of global gross domestic product.

Massachusetts's chief economic asset in the global economy is its unparalleled brain trust — the preparation and production of a highly educated citizenry and workforce.

In order to meet future challenges, the authors argue that the East Bay must invest in its core economic assets, such as preparing an advanced manufacturing workforce and scaling up proven work - based learning models like Linked Learning.

During the 1970s, Pittsburgh began to recognize its cultural offerings as an increasingly meaningful economic asset, with potential to attract tourist dollars and stem the drain on the city's population.

Poorer communities tend to be more vulnerable to loss of health and life, while wealthier communities usually have more economic assets at risk.

The value of «blue carbon» — the immense repository of carbon stored in mangroves, seagrass beds and tidal marshes (and thus kept out of the atmosphere)-- is now not only unquestioned, but increasingly seen as a pivotal economic asset for the mostly developing countries where these ecosystems flourish.

This versatility allows you to put away a significant single - premium payment into an SPL insurance policy, which is crucial to contemplate if you have limited economic assets outside of your SPL.

Regardless of race, new charter teachers or TFAers entering traditional district schools in cities such as Washington, D.C., Newark, Chicago and New Orleans are often seen as replacing older teachers from the neighborhood, which then saps the neighborhood of important economic assets.

Back then, however, the prosperous Portuguese colony also boasted other economic assets.

«The industrial and manufacturing industry is one of Staten Island's key economic assets,» EDC President Maria Torres - Springer said in a statement about Thursday's RFP.

• Responsibility for the management of the crown estate's economic assets in Scotland, including the crown estates's seabed and mineral and fishing rights, and the revenue generated from these assets, will be transferred to the Scottish parliament.

As we theorize normatively about the organization of political life, and about the distribution of socio - economic assets, so we should also theorize about what general shape our economy ought to take and about how our states ought to combine in shaping international economic forces.

«The Nigerian Navy is once again sending a strong message to the criminal elements who are sabotaging the economic assets of the country to have a rethink or face the full wrath of the law.»

The combination of severe cuts now exceeding more than $ 634 million and no regulatory relief nor enhanced entrepreneurial flexibility will seriously compromise New York's ability to harness SUNY's 64 campuses as its greatest educational and economic asset.»

Speaking on behalf of the group, Alhaji Hakeem Baba - Ahmed, who is the Chief of Staff to Senate President, said, «We demand immediate and decisive steps to improve the security of lives and economic assets in the North by the federal and state governments.

But these woodlands also have value beyond their beauty: They are an economic asset, generating raw material for papermaking, construction, furniture - building and more.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

If the AESG, which is possibly the world's most authoritative organisation devoted to elephants, seriously claims that ivory stockpiles should be used as an economic asset, in a document which no doubt will serve as a basis for management decisions, then it too is playing with fire.

In agrarian economies, children are an economic asset, though when times are hard, having children can always make it harder.

Furthermore, there is a guaranteed market for PRISM's low - carbon by - product — electricity — which eliminates the need to sell a fuel product and turns the UK's stores of plutonium into an economic asset.

With that issue in mind, Vermeij and the Carmabi Institute have been involved for years in delicate discussions related to the fate of a critical ecological and economic asset — a 17 - square - mile tract of scrub, forest and grasslands called East Point (Oostpunt in Dutch) that constitutes 10 percent of Curaçao's land area.

Once third world nations see low emissions as an economic asset and as confering a competitive advantage, they'll have incentives to behave responsibily.

With current storage problems, a huge increase in renewables means slow economic growth from the cost combined with an economic asset that will force 2C + temperature rise.

According to the report, carried out by the UK - based Tyndall Centre, the impacts of passing «Tipping Points» on the livelihoods of people and economic assets have been underestimated.

The Fraser River basin (FRB) of British Columbia is one of the largest and most important watersheds in Western North America, and is home to a rich diversity of biological species and economic assets that depend implicitly upon its extensive riverine habitats.

Brazil's target — a 70 percent reduction in net deforestation over the 1995 - 2005 baseline by 2018 — is less ambitious but is an acknowledgement of both the importance of maintaining substantial forest cover in the Amazon and the potential of forest carbon as an economic asset.

«For now, there is a need to reduce existing levels of risk and avoid creating new risk by ensuring that public and private investments are risk - informed and do not increase the exposure of people and economic assets to natural hazards on flood plains, vulnerable low - lying coastlines, and other locations unsuited for human settlement.»

But how could Alexandria, Va., replace what is, after all, an economic asset?

«We are proud to be working with Airbnb and Fannie Mae to make it easier for Airbnb hosts to reinvest in their most important economic asset, their home.