Sentences with phrase «economic gaps between»

Te Puni Kokiri, Progress toward closing the social and economic gaps between M ori and non-M ori, Government of New Zealand, May 2000, http://www.tpk.govt.nz/reports/gaps.htm.

Te Puni Kokiri, Progress toward closing the social and economic gaps between M ori and non-M ori, op.cit.p10 See also: Minister of Maori Affairs, Closing the gaps 2000, Press Release, Auckland 2000, http://www.tpk.govt.nz/publish/gaps.htm.

It may also be the case that with the rising share of young adults enrolling in college these days, economic gaps between those who borrow for college and those who do not may be widening.

Requirements around academic participation, behavior and teacher permission often coincide with racial and socio - economic gaps between students who participate and those who do not.

Findings show that socio - economic gaps between high achieving pupils are significant through a lot of the developed world.

The promotion of economic growth has not reduced the economic gap between the developing and the developed countries, as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund assumed it would.

They were uttered after a review of the growing economic gap between rich and poor nations and of the escalation of military defensiveness in the world.

«These are the ties that unite our society — and yet they are not powerful enough on their own if the economic gap between us is allowed to grow too big... I say we One Nation Tories can not ignore the gulf in pay packets that yawns wider year by year.

The growing gap between the political power of the One Percent and the rest of us parallels the extreme economic gap between the One Percent and working people in the U.S.,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

This shows the economic gap between the children and the adult world, illustrating their disregard for dull social norms as they pester people for money to buy ice - cream.

But the difference also suggests that the economic gap between developed and developing countries — one measured as much by greenhouse - gas emissions as by standard economic statistics — has narrowed significantly.

Not exact matches

In addition to the aforementioned concerns, Golub noted fears about whether economic growth won't meet lofty expectations and signals being sent from the bond market, where a narrower gap between government bond yields is kindling fears that a recession is looming.

If we are already late in an economic cycle when the tendency for company managements to employ a rosy spin on their numbers is at its most acute, then we should worry if this gap between opinion and reality is wider than in previous cycles.»

This puts the housing market in a precarious position: a large gap between prices and incomes, worsening affordability, and an indebted nation of homeowners less able to withstand economic shocks.

The World Economic Forum in the fall of 2016 released its annual Global Gender Gap Report, which found that the pay gap between men and women would not be closed until 2186 — 170 years from nGap Report, which found that the pay gap between men and women would not be closed until 2186 — 170 years from ngap between men and women would not be closed until 2186 — 170 years from now.

In May, Ben Rabidoux, an Ontario financial adviser (and an unapologetic renter) who runs the Economic Analyst blog, illustrated the unprecedented gap that's opened between the cost of renting and owning with a series of fever graphs charting rents and housing prices in seven cities across the country.

«The already challenged restaurant industry has been hit with slowing overall economic growth and the gap between the cost of dining at home compared to dining out,» Dine Equity CEO Julia Stewart said in a call with investors in November.

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.

In theory, Occupy was a protest against economic inequality, a reaction not just to the gap between «the 1 %» and «the 99 %,» but to the widening of that gap in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

«We won't paper over those differences,» said Daniel Kritenbrink, a senior China advisor to President Obama, referring to the policy gaps on cyberspace and economic issues between the two countries.

A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.

The output gap — the difference between current economic output and the estimated level that would stoke inflation — will now close in mid-2018, «materially later» than previously thought, the statement said.

More normal economic growth would eliminate the so - called output gap — the difference between what the economy can produce and what it is producing.

I have explained elsewhere some of the reasons that determine whether a country's debt is «excessively high», and I hope formally to list these reasons more fully in my next book, but the key is the gap that is created between projected debt - servicing costs and the projected revenues earmarked to service the debt when an economic entity suffers an unexpected surge in debt or an unexpected decline in growth.

Other members of the delegation, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Larry Kudlow, who heads the National Economic Council, appear more inclined to strike deals that would accomplish the president's goal of reducing the gap between what America imports from China and what it sells to the country, and thus head off the risk of an escalating trade war.

The gap between dismal productivity and the most productive economic environment in U.S. history is only about 2.5 % annually.

Yes, the G7 output gap — the difference between actual output and economic potential — is shrinking as the U.S. economy has joined Germany, the UK and Canada in running near full capacity.

This gap between Wall Street and Main Street (rising asset prices, despite worse - than - expected economic performance) can be explained by three factors.

They failed to take credit or make the case for the economic upturn, and how their policies have much to do with lower unemployment (5.8 %), significant debt reduction, healthy corporate balance sheets, greater financial stability (Dodds - Frank), record stock market numbers, as well as reducing the gap between high earners and the middle class through Obamacare and reducing the Bush tax cuts.

U.S. - led economic reflation, Federal Reserve rate increases and expectations of fiscal stimulus are likely to widen the gap between U.S. and overseas interest rates.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

He said it's clear that greed was a major factor in the economic collapse and that a wide gap between the haves and have - nots is social dynamite.

See how the original equality in colonial America has been overgrown and overwhelmed by a thousand forms of economic and political differentiation, so that today the gap between the most fortunate and the least fortunate in America is greater than at any time since the days of plutocratic Rome.

The commitment to a culture of solidarity and economic justice is equally important in the so - called «developed nations», where in many of them there is a growing gap between those who have a comfortable lifestyle and those who are deprived and marginalized.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

If you agree that environmental deterioration is important, that net international capital is a significant consideration, and that a nation is better off economically when the gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed, then our figures will be useful to you in evaluating how much correlation there is between changes in per capita GNP and economic welfare.

With primarily market - driven economies, South Korea and Taiwan have exhibited both rapid economic growth and a narrowing of income gaps between rich and poor.

The gap between rich and poor has increased, the number of homeless is growing, the nation has come to accept 7 per cent unemployment as economic success, and the existence of a trapped underclass is perceived as normal.

This study has been cited for the «30 Million Words Initiative,» an endeavor to bridge the gap between the average American child's vocabulary and that of children exposed to «talkative,» higher socio - economic parents.

Written after the collapse of Northern Rock, it is an excellent analysis of the current economic situation and the widening gap between the super rich and the rest of us.

The danger of globalisation is that it will amplify the gaps between the «winners» and «losers» of change, creating a permanently marginalised minority with no stake in the nation's economic future.

In sum, Butt's theory attempts to close the gap between internal arguments for economic redistribution and global arguments for redistribution.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

During the years that filled the gap between that day in 1963 and the day in 2013 when he was sworn in as the nation's fourth president, Kenya, like so many African nations, experienced periods of economic difficulties and political turmoil.

Nixon prioritized ending economic and racial inequality during her speech at the Bethesda Healing Center in Brownsville, and blamed Cuomo's corporate interests for widening the gap between rich and poor New Yorkers.

The latest ComRes / Independent poll confirms that the gap in support between the main parties has narrowed in recent weeks, with the public deeply confused about what passes for David Cameron's economic policy.

Even the Nigerian government had to postpone its $ 1billion Eurobond which was slated for 2016 to 2017 when a better investment environment had begun to emerge with rising oil prices, larger foreign reserves, a new economic policy document and CBN policy refinements which have significantly increased the supply of foreign currency and narrowed the gap between the various exchange rates.»

The Federal Government on Friday launched the Nigerian Economic Diplomacy Initiative, NEDI, to among other aims, bridge the gap between local talents and Nigerians in Diaspora,...

Indeed, is it even possible to speak of an «English voice» given the ever - growing disparities between different parts of the country, and the yawning gap in the economic fortunes of south - east and everywhere else?