Sentences with phrase «economic booms as»

In Canada, we tend to think of economic booms as resource driven (oil, wheat, etc...)

Lying on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the one - time backwater was transformed by an economic boom as the winding down of the conflict and a spike in commodity prices drew oil companies and multinational agricultural interests to areas that were previously off limits.

Almond demand has been one of the prime beneficiaries of the China economic boom as Chinese wages and discretionary consumption spending took off after 2005.

The UAE has recorded one of the highest population growth rates in the world over the past two decades, sustained by an economic boom as the UAE grew its petroleum production capacity and diversified its revenue base into tourism, trade and services.

Not exact matches

Seattle once had a rep as a boom - and - bust town that might experience rapid growth but could also hit the economic skids quickly, for instance if Boeing had layoffs.

A China expert with the Centre for Independent Studies is warning of serious flaws in the Chinese economic growth strategy as its economy booms.

Starbucks plans to add over 10,000 new jobs a year in China over the next five years as part of the U.S. coffee giant's big bet on the nation of tea drinkers, where coffee culture is flourishing amid a booming middle class despite an economic slowdown.

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In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

Home to corporate giants such as Starbucks and Amazon, the city is a booming economic hub.

China's economic growth proved resilient in the second quarter as policy makers stepped up support and a stock market boom — since soured — spurred services.

While a tight labor market provides definite advantages — such as employment opportunities for workers who have struggled to find a job — nonetheless, providing too much stimulus from either monetary or fiscal policy at this stage of the economic cycle could threaten to create a so - called «boom and bust» economy, which policymakers certainly want to avoid.

The common political conversation about our shared economic future focuses on achieving an escape velocity where the post-war growth boom can return as usual.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receEconomic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receeconomic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

Generally, financial positivity ticks up with age — suggesting no pending era of greater economic angst as boomers retire.

Her second, The Leisure Economy: How a Shift Away from the Work World Will Reshape Our Lives and Industries (Wiley, 2007), detailed the economic sea change that will result as baby boomers retire and the «time - crunch economy» turns into the «the leisure economy.»

As we move further into 2018 without the economic acceleration and boom (hysteria aside, the inflation scenario never got very far in junk markets), and with liquidity risk rising again, it can't be surprising that junk markets struggle.

As discussed above, in the past when credit and asset price booms have ended, they have often resulted in financial and economic instability, with banks suffering losses and the business and household sectors cutting back spending as they repair their balance sheetAs discussed above, in the past when credit and asset price booms have ended, they have often resulted in financial and economic instability, with banks suffering losses and the business and household sectors cutting back spending as they repair their balance sheetas they repair their balance sheets.

I have held CAT for many years and realize that it's a company / stock that goes through boom and bust cycles as it is more sensitive to economic activity than say, consumer staples.

Each, however, should move in unison as the USO and SEA both rise when the global economic is booming.

Whereas Austrian economists believe that government interventions cause the periods of economic boom and bust known as business cycles, Keynesian economists believe that recessions and depressions are unavoidable and that an activist central bank can mitigate fluctuations in the business cycle.

This method of increasing the money supply invariably led to economic booms that were just as invariably followed by economic busts.

They write: The common political conversation about our shared economic future focuses on achieving an escape velocity where the post-war growth boom can return as usual.

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, new strategies have been used to stimulate consumption — especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity.

As recently as the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the familAs recently as the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the familas the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the familas they provided a stable economic foundation for the family.

Even an economic recovery (such as the great boom of the last six Reagan years, as well as the more modest boom that began in 1992) can not lift incomes for those who are not in the labor force earning income.

Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

It is hard, perhaps, to identify when you are in the midst of them the periods of booming economic success such as Eisenhower's.

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

I choose to look at the recent episodes of economic contraction across the continent as opportunities to diversify our economies and invest in building critical infrastructure, especially in power, to reduce our susceptibility to commodity shocks and break out of the perpetual boom - bust cycles.»

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

The fully opened new bridge will serve as an economic boom to our region.

Expecting that works will begin according to plan and that oil and gas will be discovered soon, President John Dramani Mahama in his recent visit to the Volta Region, as part of his Accounting To The People tour went promising the Chiefs and people of the region, that there is an impending economic boom, soon as the Volta Basin Project strikes oil.

And the startup comes as casino gambling everywhere, and especially in the Northeast, is sliding into an economic black hole — the victim of oversaturated markets and booming online competition.

The planned low tax hikes contrast with the current school year's average 3.27 percent increase, as well as jumps of 7, 8 or even 9 percent recorded during the economic boom years preceding the Great Recession.

His formidable intelligence is on display here as he sets about considering the political and economic consequences of the UK's baby - boomers.

[6] Blair's decade - long premiership had been a time of economic boom for the United Kingdom, [3] but Brown's tenure as Prime Minister was dominated by the global recession of the latter part of the 2000s.

He noted Pataki's decision to cut taxes as governor and he served during an economic boom.

She found that people who were between 18 and 25 years old during hard economic times, as measured by unemployment rates, were less narcissistic later in life than those who came of age during economic booms.

Developing countries such as China and India, which have experienced economic booms, are leading the charge in increasing CO2 emissions.

ASIA ONE — Dec 10 — Matchmaking is booming in South Korea amid the global economic crisis, as fathers facing redundancy rush their children into marriage and jobless women find financial security in married life.

Ross Williams, founder and chairman of WhiteLabelDating.com, says its database of members has grown by 250 % to over 1m in the UK, and overall annualised revenues have increased by 450 % to over # 12m in the past 12 months as the dating sector booms in the economic gloom.

Mountains May Depart (Shan He Gu Ren) Jia Zhang - ke, China / France / Japan, North American Premiere The new film from master filmmaker Jia Zhang - ke (A Touch of Sin) jumps from the recent past to the speculative near - future as it examines how China's economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Zhangke Jia)-- North American Premiere The new film from Mainland master Jia Zhang - ke (A Touch of Sin) jumps from the recent past to the speculative near - future as it examines how China's economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

December 29, 2011 • As Europe suffered economic crises in 2011, Turkey's economy boomed.

School reform heads the list of national priorities as we enter a new century, partake in another presidential - election process, and publicly acknowledge the increasing disparity between rich and poor in the midst of the longest peacetime economic boom in our history.

This is, primarily, due to the economic and technological boom economies such as China and Singapore are currently experiencing.

This transformation was due mainly to the economic boom of the 1990s, as immigrants, many of them from Latin America and the Marshall...

In a new paper, «Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers» Economic Anxiety in a High Cost Urban District,» [3] authors Elise Dizon - Ross, Emily Penner, Jane Rochmes and I, build on an economic survey of Americans conducted by Marketplace Edison Research to better understand the economic anxiety of teachers in San Francisco, as a case for better understanding the impact of fast economic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keEconomic Anxiety in a High Cost Urban District,» [3] authors Elise Dizon - Ross, Emily Penner, Jane Rochmes and I, build on an economic survey of Americans conducted by Marketplace Edison Research to better understand the economic anxiety of teachers in San Francisco, as a case for better understanding the impact of fast economic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keeconomic survey of Americans conducted by Marketplace Edison Research to better understand the economic anxiety of teachers in San Francisco, as a case for better understanding the impact of fast economic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keeconomic anxiety of teachers in San Francisco, as a case for better understanding the impact of fast economic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keeconomic growth on professionals in fields in which salaries do not keep pace.

Lately, a number of global investors have been «shorting» China, betting that someday soon its powerful economic engine will sputter, as the real estate boom here turns to a bust.