Sentences with phrase «economic debates in»

The speech sought to consolidate a shift in the economic debate in which shadow chancellor Ed Balls has accepted years of flatlining growth are now at an end.

«I know that Chris Cox will use his education and experience as a small businessman to not only join the economic debate in Washington, but to be a leader to create jobs and economic growth,» said Forbes in a statement released by Cox's campaign.

Improving economic optimism places the economic debate in an interesting context, one not experienced since the beginning of the Coalition era — but will it last?

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Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

The timing of Lane's remarks suggests that he too disliked the tenor of the debate around the role of fiscal policy in helping achieve faster economic growth.

Many people argue about what needs to come first in order to create an entrepreneurial community — ideas or capital — but it's a chicken - and - egg debate, says Brad Whitehead, president of the Fund For Our Economic Future, a program that pools funding for entrepreneurs from various philanthropic organizations across Northeast Ohio.

It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

She moderates debates at The World Economic Forum in Davos and chairs numerous panels for charities and organisations including Invest Africa, Intelligence Squared and The Philanthropreneurship Forum.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

«The economic arguments will not be the prevailing ones in the debate over Catalonia's independence,» Cuenca said.

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

And while the coming debate over the guaranteed income will inevitably focus on political and economic viability, in the end the authors believe we will embrace it, as we embraced those others, because it is the right thing to do.

So don't expect a focussed debate in the 2015 election on the need for a new economic growth strategy, one based on a federal - provincial initiative to modernize our infrastructure, and create better economic prospects.

So don't expect a focussed debate in the 2015 election on the need for a new economic growth strategy, one based on a federal provincial initiative to modernize our infrastructure, and create better economic prospects.

Call us naïve, but this is the economic debate that Canadians deserve, and our political leaders should be having, in the lead up to the 2015 election.

Rather than taking a holistic approach to the economic health of the nation, the debate tends to focus on individual policies in isolation.

In the upcoming months as the political debate unfolds, any economic policy proposed by any political party, to be financed from the rather small projected surpluses, should be judged, at a minimum, on how it will strengthen economic growth and job creation.

We cognicenti know that national debts are not of any great economic consequence, but it's impossible to defend that position in public debate.

Two particular EU policy initiatives worth highlighting in the context of European responses to China's growing economic footprint in the region are: 1) the Europe's Connectivity Strategy and 2) the on - going debate on a potential EU - wide investment screening mechanism.

As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

The previous post presented Hayek's knowledge problem in the context of the economic calculation debate under socialism.

Every episode we'll pick Professor Hudson's brain for 10 or 15 minutes on an economic issue that is either being ignored — or hotly debated — that week in the press.

Dublin's campaign to ratify the eurozone fiscal discipline pact is failing to build momentum against a backdrop of weakening economic growth and a wider European debate about austerity, with almost one - in - five Irish voters still undecided.

The focus on Canadian gas was natural given the location of the Summit, the first to be held outside Asia, but it also reflected the lively debate going on in Canada over industry developments, environmental issues, and potential economic impacts.

I mean if we got back to robust economic growth, maybe we could even talk about it, but at this point in the economy, it just seems crazy to even be debating this.»

In the 1980s, when the sharp rises in foreign debt and its servicing costs were occurring, the Australian economic debate was, not surprisingly, pre-occupied with these issueIn the 1980s, when the sharp rises in foreign debt and its servicing costs were occurring, the Australian economic debate was, not surprisingly, pre-occupied with these issuein foreign debt and its servicing costs were occurring, the Australian economic debate was, not surprisingly, pre-occupied with these issues.

The debate over whether the gilded class is leaving because of state taxes is the hottest economic question in Connecticut.

Saturday's rallies, organizers said, were attempting to demonstrate a show of force in that debate: Many citizens do not automatically want their nation's economy to expand (it's an almost universally - accepted idea in modern economics that expanded trade will provide net economic expansion to both countries) but instead they care how those benefits are distributed.

Conclusion Intervention by governments and central banks in the workings of a free market has been one of history's great economic debates, and will certainly continue as such.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's economic record since taking office in 2006 is at the centre of debate in the current federal election campaign.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

Why not start the debate in the 2014 budget and keep the claim of «sound» economic management on the front burner for the next 12 months?

While many are willing to concede that they agree with the basic definition of feminism — «belief in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes» — debate soon moves on to the finer points of specific beliefs and campaigns.

(I was economic advisor to Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, whom the Democratic Party leadership blocked from even discussing a public option in the Congressional debate.)

It comes over in all the modern debates — economic development and resources, use of environment, pollution, population, the «doomsday» debates.

People who say he would be picking sides in an economic debate clearly don't read the Bible.

The CNN debate opened with discussions on economic issues, but later veered toward faith - based matters like the role of religion in candidates» decision making, abortion, gay marriage — and how the United States ought to treat Muslims living within its borders.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

If we are giving significantly of our own money to combat hunger or poverty or injustice we are very likely to become interested enough in these efforts to invest some time and energy in them, to work with individuals and to become involved in policy debates and to confront the economic system.

In a sign that U.S. politics really has turned sharply from economic debates to cultural warfare, President Obama called Fluke to offer his support just before she was to talk on NBC with Andrea Mitchell.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

In a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.&raquIn a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.&raquin a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.&raquin hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.»

In his chapter on democracy, Sen argues that a democratic polity is important first because freedom is an inherent good, second because it contributes to economic well «being, and third because societies need free political debate to choose what economic «needs» to value.

In other essays, there is much talk of usury, but almost no awareness of the underlying economic and social issues, or even of the history of the debate.

The whole debate, however, was tangential to Jim Crow laws and practices, which were articulated almost entirely in social, economic, scientific, and legal terms, not religious terms.

To set the stage, he provides a brief history of Hispanic presence in the United States and an overview of the economic, demographic, religious, and cultural factors at work in the current debate.

Only in America do we fan the flames of economic collapse with idiotic religious «debate».

While the national political debate continues to swirl around the state of the economic recovery, five Republicans with their eyes on the White House spent the evening in a Des Moines suburb pitching themselves to the evangelical Christians who dominate the Hawkeye State's crucial first - in - the - nation caucuses.

On the other side of the debate, the National Irrigators» Council chairman, Tom Chesson, demanded the government release the overdue CSIRO multiple benefits study, which is supposed to improve the understanding of how environmental benefits can be weighed against the economic impact to irrigation - dependent communities such as the Goulburn Valley in Victoria and the Murrumbidgee region in NSW.