Sentences with phrase «economic figures do»

«Straight economic figures don't take into account a dollar value for ecosystem services.»

«Straight economic figures don't take into account a dollar value for ecosystem services,» says Reganold.

Not exact matches

It was this period where the larger firms were trying to figure out what to do in this kind of economic climate.

According to figures from the Financial Conduct Authority, released by the House of Commons» Treasury Select Committee in September, 5,476 UK firms have at least one passport that allows them to do business in other EU and European Economic Area nations.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

He charts the devastating consequences of the transformation of this gang and others into high - stakes, often violent corporate enterprises engaged in franchised dealing in crack cocaine — an entrepreneurial «black capitalism» that does not figure in conservative programs for urban renewal yet plays a significant role in the economic life of the inner city.

I have seen the dollars spent (and the economic classes) of those from religious beliefs, but don't have any figures from non-believers.

However, they acknowledge that even that figure excludes important contributions to economic well being and includes expenditures that do not add to such well being.

Although one could argue that we are wrong in subtracting certain things or in using the values we do at various points, and so claim that economic welfare has in fact not declined in recent years, it would be equally possible to reintroduce leisure into our calculations and end up with figures indicating a more drastic decline.

If religion guarantees the freedom of economic individuals for Ronald Reagan, how does it figure in Walter Mondale's vision.

A member of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) economic team, Mahama Bawa also did not find growth figures in Seth Terkper's review favourable, singling out the agriculture, unemployment and high interest rate figures as major setbacks.

VEEP hits back at Bawumia: We'll teach him the economics he doesn't know Bawumia launches scathing attack on NDC's economic records Bawumia threw figures around for political effect — Economist

But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the need to prove economic competence (he reads the findings of focus groups as avidly as New Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and how George Osborne impressively framed one about how Labour crashed the car and should never be given the keys again.

Money talks, and the economic figures that are generated in other areas should be the motivation to get this done.

The Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Murtala Mohammed, addressing supporters did not mince words when he told Dr Bawumia that «economic figures mean nothing to electorates in Walewale, GDP growth has done ABC is useless to electorates.

«I do not suggest in any way that these headline grabbing - figures mean we are anywhere near resolving our economic problems.

The figures do little to settle the argument over the government's economic agenda.

Cuomo declined to even put a ballpark figure on the cost of the storm clean - up, but he did say there will be a «significant» economic impact at the end of the day.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this in itself is a deeply ideological position, involving the wholesale adoption of the economic model of neoliberalism that had swept the world under Thatcher and her allies 10 or 15 years earlier.

«The World Bank figures are there for all to see, our economic growth rate today is at a much slower pace than it was 3 years back, agreed that the present government is doing a good job at diversifying the economy.»

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said that before he would oppose the tolls, a study would have to be done to figure out the economic impact to small businesses on the island.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The WSJ report did not say if Kaloyeros was among the «other individuals,» but this omission may not have chastened the staffers, since the Buffalo Billion, a key state economic development initiative channeled through an opaque SUNY Poly - affiliated nonprofit, was almost certain to figure prominently in the complaint.

«A big part of adolescent development is figuring out your identity, and that does not always mean talking to grown - ups about what is going on,» said Dr. Nadine Connell, assistant professor of criminology in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences.

Even after you figure in all the differences in locale and economic level and period between GoodFellas and this movie, these two are still doing basically the same shtick, with the same screenwriter (Nicholas Pileggi), to lesser effect.

I've also got to figure if spending 30 bucks to make 50 makes economic sense (it doesn't, I don't think, especially when you factor in time spent reading + writing) or if I should just go about my business and find something else to write about.

Don't try to figure out what's going to happen in securities markets or the economic situation.»

Macro economic variables (such as inflation or national GDP) do not figure in the analysis, neither does market timing.

«We will look at the economic situation in order to figure out what we should be doing, not only in November but in our upcoming budget.»

This presents a real problem, if you don't at least venture to determine an Intrinsic Value for your stock, you have no way of figuring out if a share buyback is at a discount and adding true economic value for your shareholders.

(For a thorough review of the $ 17B figure, please see Laurie Goldstein's «17 Reasons the Economic Impact of the Domestic Cat as a Non-Native Species in the U.S. Does Not Cost $ 17 Billion.»

The figures say that this 77 % of energy from renewables by 2050 can be achieved with zero impact on either global economic growth (measured in GDP per capita at purchasing power parity) or on population growth compared with the «do nothing» baseline.

Posted by Olive Heffernan on behalf of Paty Romero Lankao It does make sense to compare the per capita CO2 emissions of Mexico City and Los Angeles (see figure below) to illuminate the debate on shared but differentiated responsibilities on greenhouse gases emissions and show that just as urban centers register different levels and paths of economic development, cities do not contribute at the same level to global warming.

It does make sense to compare the per capita CO2 emissions of Mexico City and Los Angeles (see figure below) to illuminate the debate on shared but differentiated responsibilities on greenhouse gases emissions and show that just as urban centers register different levels and paths of economic development, cities do not contribute at the same level to global warming.

While economic and demographic factors have no doubt contributed to observed increases in losses, 346 these factors do not fully explain the upward trend in costs or numbers of events.344, 347 For example, during the time period covered in the figure to the right, population increased by a factor of 1.3 while losses increased by a factor of 15 to 20 in inflation - corrected dollars.

If carbon combustion is really bad (a proposition with which I do not agree) then a carbon tax needs to be instituted, so that individuals can figure out on their own which carbon combustion is the most economic to eliminate and with what technologies.

On one hand, we have global figures claiming that the world doesn't need coal and that developing countries will be able to drive forward with economic development without it.

... Without Accounting For Environmental Degradation There's obviously value there, in knowing that sum total figure, but it doesn't really go very far in answering questions about whether that economic activity is occurring within sustainable ecological boundaries.

A figure for Climate sensitivity is needed for doing the economic analyses that are needed to inform policy analyses, at least that is the case the way we are doing them based on projections of climate change and damages.

At the beginning of the year, research showed that economic crime has risen from between three to four billion euros per year in Portugal; with the year ending, we ask whether legislation is doing enough to curb this figure.

I tried but wasn't able to figure out how to do this within traditional law firm structures because, candidly, the entrenched model of these structures presented too many economic and cultural impediments.

The economic rescue package signed into law last week also figures to provide work for lawyers, says John «Jack» Horan, a government contracts partner with McKenna Long & Aldridge in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately the newly - minted Office for Financial Stability does not have plans for a governmental hiring spree of in - house lawyers just yet — it will operate under the guise of the Treasury Department and hire outside contractors.