Sentences with phrase «economic choice in»

The thinking that had gone into it that Al and Jeff Skoll, who founded Participant, and Diane had been knocking around the idea for years, and I think that the reason why they thought now was especially a good time is that the cost down curve of renewables has come so far where it's really a viable economic choice in so many parts of the world.

Not exact matches

While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

Clinton said simply that she respects the choice that the UK's citizens made and added that, «Our first task has to be to make sure that the economic uncertainty created by these events does not hurt working families here in America.»

While offering workers choices, the emergence of drop - in workspace is also sending a message to employers, says Robyn Bews, who manages Calgary Economic Development's WorkShift program, which promotes the use of technology to reduce commuting.

«How wonderful would it be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were not simply reduced to social work, and became, instead, the default attitude in political, economic and scientific choices, as well as in the relationships among individuals, peoples and countries.

What all this means, of course, is that entrepreneurship has become an accepted occupational choice in the United States, occasioning a continuing boom of company building that fluctuates modestly with economic conditions but persists at a generally high level.

«Healthy economic conditions are creating considerable demand for purchasing a home, but not all buyers are able to sign contracts because of the lack of choices in inventory,» said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors.

The EPC educates policymakers, consumers and the media on the system's role in economic growth and the importance of consumer choice, security, innovation and stability for the continued growth of global commerce.

In other words they have the same economic choices available to them and face the same economic costs.

Rather, the choice revolves around a broad - based criterion, as anyone working in economic development and site selection understands.

«If those are my choices, I'd sort of, you know, I'd be really trying to figure out where we go,» the chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group told CNBC's «Squawk Box» at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Outlook for 2018: In 2018, Russia's leadership will face a choice between limited economic liberalization and further policy tightening.

Heâ $ ™ s Number Two: Â Stephen Poloz was widely acknowledged in economic and political circles as the second - best choice for the top job at the Bank of Canada.

For our government, the choice is clear: we need to diversify our markets in order to create jobs and economic growth for Canadians across this country.

However, I think the awareness - raising effort is primarily directed at the public, and in particular those who can, by way of investment choices (whether as a shareholder or a tourist), put economic pressure on those decision - makers.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies righIn Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies righin the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies righin deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

In the May 2005 update of their paper entitled «Optimism and Economic Choice», Manju Puri and David Robinson use data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (conducted every three years since 1989) to investigate the economic decisions of optimists, including financial portfolio constEconomic Choice», Manju Puri and David Robinson use data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (conducted every three years since 1989) to investigate the economic decisions of optimists, including financial portfolio consteconomic decisions of optimists, including financial portfolio construction.

Japan's economic revival will lead to greater growth in Canada's exports, add to global demand for our commodities, create new opportunities for value chain partnerships in Asia and beyond through Japanese companies, and increase the choice...

With a Ph.D. in economics and a focus on the principles of free - market capitalism and «Austrian» economics, Mark Skousen has often gone contrary to the crowd in his investment choices and economic predictions — and has often been proved right.

Losses in risky assets will dissipate investor confidence, undermine economic activity, and leave the Fed with little choice other than to step on the accelerator for more easy money.

«Canadians will be making a serious choice between real - world experience and a dangerous economic approach that has failed before and is failing in other countries,» said Thom.

His long - standing reputation as a prudent fiscal conservative makes him an appropriate choice for this role, and we were pleased to have hosted him in January 2015 for our 26th annual Economic Outlook Forum.

The answer is that it fulfills their goal of offering economic choices and freedom to people throughout the world, especially in regions that often lack stable financial structures.

«We've been the leading investor in this country for more than five years running, and our Time Warner transaction is all about innovation and economic development, consumer choice, and investment in infrastructure with regard to providing a great 5G mobile broadband experience.

The choice of Freeland as co-chair of an economic advisory council serves a double purpose: bolstering the Liberal leader's relatively weak economic credentials as well as Freeland profile before she runs in the upcoming Toronto Centre byelection, which promises to be an epic struggle for supremacy between the Liberals and NDP.

He has published articles in leading scholarly journals, including Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, Public Choice, and Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

Progress ultimately concerns the inflation of private choice in terms of increased technologies and economic opportunities.

And for that reason we stand for life, for religious liberty, for marriage, for economic freedom, for low taxes, for markets in health care, for school choice.

Gambling in today's United States — repackaged, sanitized, video - ized, down - marketed and ubiquitous — is not an issue of temperance or free choice but rather one of social class and public economic policy....

Yet such assumptions, in themselves, contradict the method of economic development and defeat its purpose, which is, in essence, the extension of human choice.

If the left insists on the liberal interpretation of our constitutional and political institutions in an uncompromising effort to defend the ever - expanding role of the state to secure the practical liberty of individuals, the right defends the free - market system and uncompromisingly rejects any restraint on the unfettered economic choices of individuals.

We need to buttress the economic security of middle - class Americans in ways that encourage portable benefits appropriate to a fluid marketplace that emphasizes choice.

In spite of the heroic renunciation of the religious orders they live in the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situationIn spite of the heroic renunciation of the religious orders they live in the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situationin the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situationin the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situations.

As it explained, «For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized their intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail....

Fehr's preference for experiment over theory may sound admirably modern, but the value of studies in «behavioural game theory», which try to isolate and replicate purely economic choices, is questionable.

Most young adults today do not have the same kind of life choices available to them that were available in the period of economic expansion after the Second World War.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

The modern industrial world and the would - be industrial world have made their choices in terms of a human future dependent upon increased economic growth in material goods, despite the warning of ecologists.

Rather, our choice is how we shall pragmatically organize our economic and political life in such a way as to foster living well together And any conservative understanding of such «living well» must include the «paleo» parts.

«These are not just political conflicts or economic choices; they are moral choices with enormous human dimensions,» Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in a public letter last week.

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Much more than my dad, she understood how economic freedom gives women choices, including leaving a marriage they no longer want to be in, even if they have kids.

Our society doesn't value (in a tangible financial way) supporting mothers staying at home, etc, so in the mean time, we have to just «deal» with our economic reality and choices or lack thereof.

In an e-mail, Esaian stated: «We are committed to providing healthy choices for our schools, but we also have to balance our nutritional choices with the demands of parents and students; there are also economic and budgetary realities that we must consider.»

And for some parents it's not even a choice — it's a question of which parent can find a good job in hard economic times.

A broader economic approach to the measurement of outcomes, such as stated preference discrete choice modelling, might have captured women's preferences for alternative attributes of planned place of birth and might have been more informative to decision makers, 28 but this was not practically possible given the anonymity involved in the study design and the available resources.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

In some circles it can't even be called a choice because if you happen to not be doing the one everyone else in the area, your socio - economic class, etc. is doing then you might as well just give him cocaine and sprite 24/In some circles it can't even be called a choice because if you happen to not be doing the one everyone else in the area, your socio - economic class, etc. is doing then you might as well just give him cocaine and sprite 24/in the area, your socio - economic class, etc. is doing then you might as well just give him cocaine and sprite 24/7.

As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.