Sentences with phrase «economic competitiveness more»

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A key theme in this year's presidential race is competitiveness of American industry, though candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders tend to use more colorful language when describing their belief that the United States has lost its economic edge.

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.

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.

The «Beyond the Border» and Regulatory Cooperation action plans promise to create an even more robust economic relationship and strengthen our global competitiveness to the benefit of our citizens on both sides of the border.

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.

In Ghana, he said trade facilitation has been enhanced with a 57 % increase of volumes of goods processed at the Customs Technical Service Bureau which will have a very dramatic impact on Ghana's international investment competitiveness with direct impact «on our domestic economic situation, offering up much more job opportunity, and improve living standards for our people.»

«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»

I will continue to push for science and technology research and education because they put our economic recovery on a stronger course; however, we can all do more to publicize the tangible benefits that greater investment in science and technology has on our global competitiveness.

The bill also protects funding for critical national and regional waterways — which handle commerce valued at more than $ 2 trillion annually — through the Army Corps of Engineers, and programs that encourage energy independence and economic competitiveness.

The latter statistic represents the «pipeline» of those ready for college and the 21st century workplace, is a more realistic measure of educational success and the challenge we face than any «dropout» calculation might indicate, and does not bode well, not only for our economic competitiveness, but for the future of responsible democratic citizenship.

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.

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It damages American economic competitiveness — More expensive energy and goods damage America's economic output and overall competitiveness.

So defaulting to old scare - tactics about the heavy - hand of government does nothing but stifle U.S. innovation and competitiveness at a time when we need much more of it to boost economic growth.

By masking the true cost of nuclear power, subsidies also allow the industry to exaggerate its economic competitiveness; consequently, they diminish or delay support for more economical and less risky alternatives like energy efficiency and renewable energy.

«On a more positive note, there are some things that Trump doesn't have so much control over, such as state legislation in California, or economic competitiveness of renewables, that could lead to mitigation in the absence of direction from the president,» Jeffery says.