Sentences with phrase «economic direction of»

They describe a relentlessly careful statistician, deeply concerned about the economic direction of the country, who avoids the social whirl of fundraising — the anti-Sheldon Adelson of the GOP.

Surrey will shape the political and economic direction of the province like no other city.

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If the PMI does not suit you in gauging the strength and direction of economic activity, try sales of autos and light trucks.

«I think a lot of party members, supporters, and affiliated supporters were happy with the general direction I was trying to take the party, particularly opposition to austerity and offering a real economic alternative,» he said.

A vote to «Leave» marked the first big reversal of European efforts at political and economic integration in 60 years, casting big doubts over the EU's future direction.

The queen controls the direction of the worker ants with eyes only for efficiency, and, in the case of Kamprad, economic savings.

Common shareholders end up shouldering the bulk of the economic risk, but are essentially powerless to influence the direction of the company.

NEW YORK, Oct 3 (Reuters)- U.S. overnight lending rates dipped on Wednesday, but remained near recent highs as investors looked ahead to key U.S. payrolls data due on Friday for direction as to the strength of the economic recovery.

One of the four working groups this meeting established has a mandate to «stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and drive innovation» — and will do its work under the direction of ministers of economic development.

This alternative to the regular Consumer Price Index takes into account an economic phenomenon called the substitution effect, which reflects changes in consumer behavior when prices of substitutable goods move in different directions.

Correction: Kenneth McCarthy's title was corrected to senior managing direction of economic analysis and forecasting.

Gross adds that the global monetary system, which has evolved and morphed over the past century but always in the direction of easier, cheaper and more abundant credit, may have reached a point at which it can no longer operate efficiently and equitably to promote economic growth and the fair distribution of its benefits.

Instead, the arithmetic of economic expansion - employment growth plus productivity growth - is already constrained by a 4.6 % unemployment rate and a deficit on current account, and seems unlikely to be helped by the current policy direction, aside from rather short - lived effects.

Overall, small business owners are more optimistic about the economic recovery than the general population, which may be a leading indicator of the future direction of overall consumer sentiment.

«It is imperative for all of the major stakeholders in women's enterprise development — in policymaking, program development, capital, research, and organizational capacity - building — to move forward in the same direction, to not only increase our national competitiveness but to level the economic playing field.

For each of the indicators measured (New Orders, Backlog of Orders, New Export Orders, Imports, Production, Supplier Deliveries, Inventories, Customers» Inventories, Employment and Prices), this report shows the percentage reporting each response, the net difference between the number of responses in the positive economic direction (higher, better and slower for Supplier Deliveries) and the negative economic direction (lower, worse and faster for Supplier Deliveries), and the diffusion index.

«This is a step in the wrong direction,» said Doug Holtz - Eakin, president of the right - leaning American Action Forum and an economic adviser to GOP politicians.

However, market direction once the wall of worry has been surmounted is impossible to ascertain, and depends on the stage of the economic cycle at which it occurs.

«Amidst the economic turmoil in 2009, SCB was able to close the year with a healthy and above - target profit, which strongly bears out the bank's right strategic direction to become the «premier universal bank in Thailand,» plus the bank's resilience in adapting to a very challenging economic environment, which resulted in the solid performance,» says Vichit Suraphongchai, chairman of Siam Commercial Bank.

The aggressive reduction in interest rates needed to be complemented by timely movement in the other direction, once the emergency had passed, to establish a general level of interest rates more in keeping with the better economic outlook.

Hold debt levels static, and that rate of economic decline would force Italy's debt to GDP ratio to rise to 122 % from 118 % - clearly the wrong direction if the hope is to ease long - term solvency concerns.

For fundamental analysis, it is important to get a sense of the broad economic picture, as this will be critical for determining the future price direction of a given asset.

As she sums up the economic health of the nation and the direction that monetary policy will take over the next couple of hours, there are...

In China, an important meeting that sets the direction of economic policies for 2018 is underway in Beijing.

All these efforts should come together in a national strategy that sets a clear direction, builds on our strengths, and targets key areas of economic opportunity across the country.

Her impact on the vision, direction and culture of the college has resulted in significant growth and has activated a critical public discussion on the value of college education in Ontario's economic development.

Recently, the boards and operating executives of TechAlliance, The London Economic Development Corporation, The Stiller Centre for Biotechnology Commercialization and the Small Business Centre have agreed to the implementation of a plan entitled «London's Next Economy,» that will see a focused and coordinated approach to the development of London's long term economic prosperity, under the direction of a single Board of DiEconomic Development Corporation, The Stiller Centre for Biotechnology Commercialization and the Small Business Centre have agreed to the implementation of a plan entitled «London's Next Economy,» that will see a focused and coordinated approach to the development of London's long term economic prosperity, under the direction of a single Board of Dieconomic prosperity, under the direction of a single Board of Directors.

In this new age of fiat money, credit growth drives economic growth, liquidity determines the direction of asset prices and the government controls both through aggressive policy intervention.

Dispelling these myths — with the help of economic facts, reliable financial measures and an understanding of big - picture secular dynamics — can help investors better discern the direction of the economy and markets.

But we do not believe the ECB will contemplate a major change in direction, since in the continued absence of a significant fiscal stimulus, the region's economic performance remains too weak for the central bank to risk measures that could create, however inadvertently, a degree of tightening in monetary policy.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

If the ascension is understood as not about a direction but instead about the place Jesus occupies in creation and in our hearts, it becomes a powerful counter to the economic and political powers of our day.

The reconstructed economics should help determine the direction of both individual economic decisions and corporate and national economic policies.

They also need signs of promise, economic stability and communicant growth before they plant themselves firmly behind new directions.

In my opinion, the general realization that policies justified by the dominant economic theory destroy human community and degrade the natural environment should be enough to persuade people of good will that they should look in other directions.

My suspicion is that the goal of Nordhaus and Tobin in carrying out this study was not really open - mindedly to consider whether economic activity should be directed in different directions, but rather to reassure themselves and other economists that no change is needed.

The sooner policies shift in this direction, the better the chance of economic success.

While many people have expressed reservations about the direction of the Clinton economic program, the good economic news is that retail condom sales broke the $ 300 million dollar mark for 1993.

With the coming of the Gentiles to Utah, the political direction of the state has, of course, passed from the church as church, but even today the economic and social life of the Mormon community is still to an amazing degree determined by the principles taught in their sacred book.

While this system has gone a long way to better the economic status of India's 82 million Scheduled Castes and Tribes, it has lost its direction because it is not envisioned as a time - bound program.

The program called for mixed public - private ownership of key industries to prevent monopolies and economic concentration, «planning and direction» of the economy, self - management of economic relations through occupational councils, promotion of small - to medium - sized firms, and protection of individual freedom and private property.

Though no man living is wise enough to give a complete blueprint of the «next steps» to economic justice in every concrete situation, certain widely held errors stand in the way of these steps, and their discernment is essential to moving in the right direction.

Contemporary evidence about the economic cultures of East Asia, of successful ethnic groups in different countries, or of the mobility of immigrants to this country all seems to point in the same direction: self - denial and discipline are virtues that are the condition sine qua non of early capitalist development.

Are we engaged in a process of consolidation of theological gains made, or will our thinking remain candles in the wind, subject to the twists and turns of capricious winds blowing from various directions, and sometimes artificially created by «fans» run by the motor of vested interests motivated by a selfish global and economic agenda?

The economic and political battles against communism, by returning liberalism to its original course, certainly changed the direction of modernity.

The ideologisation is seen in that the market with its sole criterion of economic growth is made to determine policies regarding other economic goals like liquidation of mass poverty, economic welfare and eco-justice, but also policies regarding directions in social educational and cultural life.

On the basis of this discussion we can now list some of the changes of direction needed in the economic order of rich countries as follows:

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

Hence, part of the task of white process theologians is to complement the work of Black (and other liberation) theologies by engaging in theory - critique and proposing alternative directions for global economic systems.

These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.