Sentences with phrase «economic competitiveness as»
We can not afford to fall behind other nations in this vital area, it is a matter of economic competitiveness as well as quality of life and community security.
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We can, and must, do something to expand opportunity for every young person — not simply as a moral imperative but out of economic necessity and competitiveness.
But German deputy foreign minister Michael Link hinted Paris could be fighting a losing battle this time, saying Berlin would continue to press for deeper overall cuts as part of a «modern budget» that prioritises economic growth and competitiveness.
Just this week, Will Carty, manager of public policy for Twitter, wrote a blog post praising reclassification as «critical to American economic aspirations and our nation's global competitiveness» with «important implications for freedom of expression.»
Canada should understand this and act to support what we have achieved, as well as help Mexico convince our mutual neighbour to change the new government's misguided and damaging attacks on our common objectives: more prosperity, more economic growth and more competitiveness for all three nations.
While that was seen as a sign of health of Europe's economic recovery and signaled growing foreign investor appetite for the region's equities, it curbed the value of overseas earnings and hurt competitiveness.
The business case for clean energy goes beyond economic competitiveness: In countries such as China and India, delivering more power without adding to the smog that already chokes big cities is paramount.
But there is something profoundly troubling about speculators in Puerto Rican debt reaping windfalls even as estimates of hurricane damage are revised up, tax reform legislation undermines Puerto Rican competitiveness, out - migration increases, political cleavages increase, layoffs from the public sector are set to increase and outside observers become more pessimistic about Puerto Rico's economic prospects.
But as has been pointed out many times on RPE, the Nordics manage to rank highly on economic competitiveness rankings while have superior social outcomes, especially in regards to poverty and inequality.
This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.
«Perennial rail service challenges have impacted our competitiveness, our national supply chain's long - term economic sustainability and Canada's global reputation as a trading nation,» the company wrote in its briefing to the committee reviewing Bill C - 49, the government's modernization of the Transportation Act.
«Hong Kong has an opportunity to proactively use its autonomy to further strengthen its impressive economic competitiveness, as well as its inherent value proposition in the eyes of foreign partners,» he said.
The Bundesbank, the most hawkish of central banks, has signalled it would accept higher inflation in Germany as part of an economic rebalancing in the eurozone that would boost the international competitiveness of countries worst - hit by the region's debt crisis.
Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.
Milwaukee is also home to the international headquarters of six Fortune 500 companies and was recently selected to join the Global Cities Initiative as a result of its commitment to promote global trade and economic competitiveness.
Even as it enacts reforms to liberalize its financial markets and change its economic model, China must regain its competitiveness when it comes to exports.
This builds off of Part Iwhere we discussed the gender disparities in venture capital, and how solving for those issues creates great financial opportunities for investors, as well as assuring our country's economic competitiveness.
While KPMG's «Competitive Alternatives» report suggests Canada is more competitive because of our lower corporate tax rates, indices of competitiveness such as those produced by the World Economic Forum, show little or no relationship between corporate tax rates and competitiveness.
«After decades of doubting China's innovation potential, the United States now fears the rapid pace of China's technological catchup, and sees Chinese technology as a major (perhaps even existential) threat to US economic competitiveness,» Matt Sheehan, a fellow at the Paulson Institute, wrote in a blog post last month.
This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).
If we take this passage as an indication of the role publicly supported education may be able to play, we see nothing about economic development and international competitiveness, but a lot about our humanity and citizenship.
Ulster University in Northern Ireland has been awarded funding of almost $ 400,000 as part of a larger $ 2.6 million research grant to develop new mixing process technologies for milk powder hydration, which aims to significantly enhance the economic competitiveness of the Irish dairy industry.
We strongly urge Albany to continue the progress made in improving New York's economic competitiveness while focusing on pro-growth initiatives as budget negotiations enter this final stretch.»
As Cuomo himself has said in other contexts, a high income - tax rate undermines New York's economic competitiveness.
Corroborating similar gesture, the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said it is time for all to pursue the clamour for regional integration so as to advance social - economic, political and education relationship for the comparative competitiveness in the southwest.
The World Economic Forum places Britain in 140th place for price competitiveness for tourism out of 141 countries and the reduction in the VAT rate to 5 %, as agreed by the Liberal Democrat conference, would increase employment and raise extra revenues for the Government.»
However the FJI identified «the low competitiveness of this programme compared to similar contract offers in other countries in relation to the economic endowment, budget, possibilities to create a group, and future stability» as a major hindrance to the programme's success in this respect.
As a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
And cultural background and level of economic development seem linked with greater competitiveness; for example, Han Chinese or Armenian girls are as competitive as their male counterparts.
As a non-regulatory agency of the Commerce Department, NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
As a non-regulatory agency, NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
«It can be seen as generating economic competitiveness or a moral decline, sustaining scientific prestige or the rise of amoral elites, even ensuring personal freedom or bondage.»
The White House reminds us that «a world - class STEM workforce is essential to virtually every goal we have as a nation — whether it's broadly shared economic prosperity, international competitiveness, a strong national defense, a clean energy future, and longer, healthier lives for all Americans.»
It's a paean to educational progressivism dressed up as a guide to economic competitiveness.
He cites as evidence the fact that a nation's place on the Current Competitiveness Index developed by the World Economic Forum is not perfectly correlated with the TIMSS results, and the United States ranks high on the index.
The combination of sensitive schools and an overarching focus on education as a tool solely to promote global economic competitiveness has seemingly deemphasized the need for civic and moral education in classrooms, according to Levinson.
Gifted children, in our view, have generally been short - changed in recent years by American public education, even as the country has awakened to their potential contributions to our economic competitiveness and technological edge.
As colleagues and I have documented on numerous occasions, rankings on international tests do not relate to international indicators of economic strength, global competitiveness, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, or any other economic indicators that reflect a strong economy (e.g., Tienken, 2008; Tienken & Mullen, 2014).
Among those failings were the poor quality of content standards and assessments and the variability in content expectations and proficiency targets across states, as well as concerns related to the economic competitiveness of the nation's future workforce.
The E3 Alliance was formed as a collaborative effort of Austin Community College (ACC), the Austin Area Research Organization (AARO), the University of Texas and others to initiate a regional effort to increase global competitiveness, economic vitality and overall quality of life for Central Texas by aligning our education systems to better fulfill the potential of every citizen.
Develops designs for more economically efficient transportation programs and policies as it relates to FASTLANE grants, to generate national or regional economic benefits and an increase in the global economic competitiveness of the United States.
We serve as the Departmental focal point for initiatives related to achieving Departmental strategic goals regarding safety, state of good repair, economic competitiveness, quality of life in communities, and environmental sustainability.
The BHA shapes the future of hospitality & tourism as a driver for international competitiveness, economic growth and valuable careers.
The BHA shapes the future of hospitality & tourism as a driver for international competitiveness, economic growth and valuable careers.
RFF research has informed the design of a number of these policies and RFF experts are continuing to look at how states and regions design climate initiatives, manage issues such as emissions leakage and competitiveness concerns, and balance economic and environmental goals.
Teryn previously served as Senior Advisor and Project Director at the Breakthrough Institute, a public policy think tank, where he co-authored several acclaimed reports on economic competitiveness policy, and founded the Breakthrough Fellowship Program.
«The U.S. should approve this pipeline to utilize this resource to enhance our energy and national security, preserve our global competitiveness, and maintain our role as a world economic leader.»
Over the past five years, Teryn has served as one of the country's leading young voices for federal policies to strengthen U.S. energy innovation and economic competitiveness.
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Importantly, the UCS analysis represents a conservative estimate for the economic competitiveness of wind and solar resources, because it assumes that the new renewable resources would be built in the same geographic area as the existing coal fired generating units.