Sentences with phrase «economic driver for»

Along with tourism and niche manufacturing, the port continues to be a primary economic driver for the region, province and Canada at large.

Mining has and will continue to be a key economic driver for the state.

They are an economic driver for the state of Pennsylvania.

Carmel Beattie, CEO for Cook Islands Tourism Corporation (CITC) commented: «Tourism in the Cook Islands accounts for over 75 % of GDP and is therefore the chief economic driver for the country.

A major economic driver for this town is Santa Susana Field Laboratory, which is a leading employer in the rocket and nuclear technology fields.

Cattle ranching is still a large economic driver for the town, in addition to tourism.

Fund Education Now supports investment in traditional public schools and believes that education is an economic driver for Florida.

Mining has and will continue to be a key economic driver for the state.

When you're drilling for oil, there's an economic driver for that — so far, for water, there hasn't been,» Cunningham said.

According to him, the expansion will be of a great economic driver for the area and facilitate greater ease for transportation of Goods from Tema to the axis of Greater Accra and into the rest of the country.

But during the Erie County cultural funding crisis of 2011, the arts community banded together to assert their collective clout and made arguments about the importance of arts funding as an economic driver for the region.

«Adding an arbitrary expiration for reasons unrelated to the special permit process or requirements would not only set a dangerous and questionable precedent, but would also hinder our ability to make MSG and New York City the long - term home of even more world - class events, and would harm a business that has served as a significant economic driver for the City for generations.»

As the governor signed the documents, a coalition of environmental groups released a report that finds lands designated wilderness are an economic driver for the Park.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy called the SUNY campus system an economic driver for the state during a visit to SUNY Oswego Tuesday morning.

«The airport is a huge economic driver for the region,» she said.

Kaloyeros founded the College of Nanoscale Science and Technology more than a decade ago, creating a major economic driver for the region and raising his profile around the entire state.

Thanks to the leadership of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and through forums like today's conference, our commitment to sustainability, while serving as a major economic driver for our region and a leader in innovation and cutting - edge technologies, will enable us to continue to flourish as a key partner with the community, government and industry.»

The facility supports close to 1,200 local jobs and has been a key economic driver for the state.

Since opening in 1991, Grand Casinos has been a true economic driver for the entire region — currently employing nearly 3,000 people, and welcoming millions of guests every year.

More than ever, tribal owned businesses are the primary economic driver for East Central Minnesota.

To compete effectively, Australia needs to adapt its regulatory and MTP ecosystem to address the challenges and prepare the groundwork to build and scale an innovative MTP sector capable of capitalising on growth opportunities overseas to serve as a future economic driver for Australia.

Growing coffee is both a point of pride and a significant economic driver for Colombia but a changing climate is now threatening the harvest.

Indeed, the iPhone has become a modest economic driver for the U.S. economy, a rare feat for a single product.

But to turn this explosion of entrepreneurial energy into a long - lasting economic driver for Canada, we've got to scale more of these startups into large businesses.

One of the most high - profile resolutions — co-sponsored by nine chambers or boards of trade from across the country — called on the federal government to refrain from changing the current governance model of Canada's ports and major airports, given that they are economic drivers for our national economy and crucial pieces of transportation infrastructure.

She will be speaking at the The Food Matters Live conference in November, helping to assess the political, regulatory, social and economic drivers for improving the availability and consumption of nutritious food and drink.

Western societies with their patterns of consumption are the economic drivers for the whole planet.

Christiana Figueres (UNFCCC) sets out the environmental and economic drivers for business to offset carbon emissions.

«While technology companies have certainly dominated Bay Area office market headlines, these large lease renewals by Delta Dental remind us that non-tech companies also continue to be important economic drivers for the region.»

Not exact matches

Joe Seiner, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, recently told me he believes certifying Uber drivers as a class ignores the different «economic realities» that affect drivers who approach Uber as a full - time job or career and those who use it for occasional income supplementation.

The drivers behind OPEC's forecast include steadily rising economic activity around the world, strong demand for transportation fuels like gasoline and jet fuel and a growing petrochemical industry, which turns byproducts from oil and natural gas into chemicals.

Continued, innovative investment of this nature will be an important driver for this country's future economic growth.

The transition from a radical regime guided by a utopian ideology to a pragmatic one with a laser - like focus on maintaining power by delivering superior economic performance is one of the main drivers for how China has managed to engineer an economic revolution since the late 1970s.

The primary economic driver of the forecast for Personal Income Tax revenue is the outlook for growth in compensation of employees.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

Some researchers argue that it is impossible to determine when a contractor is truly working for a company during the times when the worker is waiting to pick up a ride, because the driver could be using two applications at once or attending to personal business.100 However, as noted in a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute, both Uber and Lyft already have guaranteed pay plans that they use in some markets during certain hours that pay workers guaranteed minimum earnings per hour based on their entire time logged into the system, including waiting times.101

Hosted by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Graduates of 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses will join leaders in the women's economic empowerment space for a discussion on the rise of entrepreneurship as a key driver of growth and impact around the world.

In May last year, The Economic Times reported that State Bank of India had suspended car loans for Uber and Ola taxis, following loan defaults of about Rs 120 crore due to non-payment of dues by drivers.

Asia, a major driver of global economic growth, is both a source of competitive imports but increasingly an important destination for exports for the Canadian economy, a growing market for resource - based commodities but also agri - food products, specialized manufactures, financial and other services and, potentially, energy.

«For the last four years the household sector has been the key driver of Canada's economic growth.

Today the White House announced major steps to improve incentives for future innovation in high tech patents, a key driver of economic growth and good paying American jobs.

Political and economic risk is a key driver of international demand for 39 % of respondents.

While «outsourcing» for low - cost labour may have motivated outward investment in the last decade, the new driver of investment is clearly domestic economic growth in Asia.

The change in the drivers of economic growth is also good for gold.

The yield curve has also steepened and may steepen even more, as the driver for short - term rates are influenced by Fed fund moves, while economic growth and the inflation outlook are influencing longer - term rates.

«The continued expansion of world demand, resulting from global population and economic growth and increasing preference for dairy products are expected to be the main drivers, fuelling EU exports and sustaining commodity prices,» said the EC report.

The food and agribusiness sector is a vital contributor to the Australian economy and a major driver of economic activity, employment and prosperity for many parts of rural and regional Australia.8

All in all, coding and marking onto packaging for a beverage producer is a key driver in economic and social terms, protecting brands from counterfeit and product recalls, and increasing consumer confidence.

Trump's tariff tweets baited China into a rapid, tit - for - tat escalation that threatens Illinois» top economic driver: our agricultural producers.

It honours chefs who have a positive impact on society as a whole, showing how gastronomy can be a driver for change in spheres such as innovation, education, the environment, social and economic development and health.