Sentences with phrase «economic goals as»

«This has profound implications for the current policy debate that frames environmental goals and economic goals as at odds with each other.»

Premier Wen Jiabao stated that China is confident that it will achieve its economic goals as growth stabilizes.

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This reality has profound implications for economic growth: consumers saving for retirement need to reduce spending if they are going to reach their retirement income goals and retirees with lower incomes will need to cut consumption as well.

But according to Robert Scott of the Economic Policy Institute, the U.S. economy will fall well short of that goal, as exports only increased by 48.4 % over that five - year span.

Over 2,500 initiatives and innovations have been honoured by the AEF since its inception in 1992 (they receive over 100 nominations every year), raising public awareness of environmental preservation as a necessary goal alongside economic growth and natural resource development.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

As our conversation wraps up, Polman emphasizes again that his economic development goals will certainly boost Unilever's fortunes too, especially since the company depends on hundreds of millions of people having enough money to buy staple items.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

In this mindset, fiscal policy should focus primarily on longer - run goals such as economic efficiency and equity.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

The threshold, target, and maximum percentage business line goals shown for the named executives listed in the table above were derived using certain assumptions for 2008 with respect to the general economic, interest rate, credit, and regulatory environment in which we operate and certain assumptions as to the outlook for the businesses each of them managed.

On some level, it should be no surprise that Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs don't advance any coherent economic goal because the legal authority he invoked as justification has nothing to do with economics.

A subset of small businesses is still putting growth goals on hold as they monitor consumer behavior and the economic recovery.

The impact of the changing world related to the Internet, social technologies, global economic uncertainty, and shifting marketplaces is having a direct impact on buyer values as they relate to buyer goals.

Below is a Brief Summary of Behavioral Finance Economists view the goal of investing as maximizing economic wealth.

While his economic strategy was by no means so one - sided and simplistic as was commonly believed in the 1960s and»70s and although he still proclaimed industrialization and a «technical revolution» as his goals, Mao displayed continuing anxiety regarding the corrupting influence of the fruits of technical progress and an acute nostalgia for the perceived purity and egalitarianism that had marked the moral and political world of the Jinggang Mountains and Yan» an eras.

In recognizing the catalysts behind the public's persistence to save and reluctance to spend, additional analysis by policymakers should focus on the efficacy of further rate cuts on spending and investment, as well as potential «roundabout» benefits of a more normal rates regime to affirm support toward the public's saving objectives, with the end goal of boosting public's risk sentiment and perceptions of future economic stability.

The Chinese leadership had been widely expected to prioritize economic stability ahead of the congress, and figures showing third - quarter growth of 6.8 % year - on - year confirmed this goal, leaving the economy on course to exceed the official target of around 6.5 % growth for 2017 as a whole.

In the US, the Fed accomplished this goal as equities levitated despite lackluster economic and corporate earnings growth.

As Abdelkarim, Nasser and freshman Saudi oil minister Khalid Al - Falih make their rounds in regional and international conferences this week, their contrasting can and can't - do attitudes makes one thing clear: The Kingdom is far more interested in its long - term economic and geopolitical goals than alleviating its short - term oil profitability problem with and for its OPEC partners.

Craig Fehr is an investment strategist for Edward Jones, responsible for analyzing and interpreting economic trends and market conditions, as well as constructing appropriate investment strategies and recommendations to help investors build and maintain portfolios designed to help reach their long - term financial goals.

«As we move forward to the next election, I will continue to hold Christy Clark accountable for failing to keep her promises to British Columbians, and I will be putting forward a diverse economic platform that will bring jobs to every region of the province and a comprehensive climate plan, that incorporates LNG within the context of our overall climate goals.

People aren't normally sending hundreds or thousands of dollars per transaction on Paxful, but the p2p network embraces this reality as their goal is to offer an economic lifeline to the developing world.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

My point is only that rough approximations to measuring economic welfare strongly suggest that the time for viewing increase in gross product as the appropriate goal for national policy is ended.

But this does not justify the shift of power from the political system which can express the concerns of people for their grandchildren and for the nonhuman world to economic institutions for which these considerations are typically felt as interfering with their primary goals.

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

As David Recardo (1772 - 1823) stressed that, `' the central goal of political economy is the scientific study of growth, the social ownership and the distribution of economic and political power, nationally and internationally.»

There is a real danger that we might come to equate success in the economic system with a successful life, that we might come to identify the material rewards of the system as our goal in life and the source of meaning for us.

This would be that the profession of economists as a whole would decide that its real goal is to contribute its expertise to the improvement of the human lot in general by improving the economic condition of people.

Our goal should be to establish a comfortable, stable economic system that conserves as much energy as possible and gets the rest from renewable energy sources such as the sun and wind.

They usually, however, regard it as a sufficiently accurate indicator of economic well being, that they use the GNP or GDP per capita as if its increase were self evidently desirable, as, indeed, the most important goal of public policy.

Of course, as Christians we have other goals, and we should not subordinate all these to economic growth.

-- To be counted as an act of terror, an incident has to be an intentional act or threat by a «non-state actor» that meets two of these three criteria: — • It was aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious or social goal.

Our goal should be to create more economic options for as many Americans as possible rather than trying to restore the consolidated economy of the postwar era.

Provisions can be worked out to reconcile the past memories and amend past mistakes through religious values (repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation), socio - economic means (such as providing assistance to development, promoting fair aid and trade, restitution, and reparation), and by political goals (of consensus building and solidarity).

To improve the economic condition of the community as a whole is the economic goal; and this serves the larger goal of improving the quality of human relations and thus of human life, while stimulating the personal freedom of all the members of the community.

As a result the socialist education movements that were effective among European workers were much less successful here and labor organizations limited their goals to short - run economic benefits.

It is because the contemporary American family was the goal and product of reform that it was idealized, and that it was so long and so confidently invoked as a common value, as a thing deserving and also requiring political and economic protection.

Among those nations in which economic and cultural factors did not support the move toward this goal, none has worked as hard as China to achieve this stabilization.

Even when market with its goal of economic growth became decisive for economic activities in capitalism, it was never accepted as decisive for the lion - economic areas of social or cultural life.

In one crucially important regard, the fundamentalists and their opponents are at one: in embracing the philosophy of «making it» as the goal of existence, with economic success as the highest good.

When Christians accepted economic growth, and all that was required to produce it, as the desirable goal, the reason was that it would benefit people in general and the poor in particular.

Our financial aid and sibling discount programs support this goal, and the families participating in these programs have contributed significantly to the economic diversity of the school as well as to its spiritual and social growth.

Nonetheless, the goal was clear and limited in scope, as were the mutual responsibilities it entailed: political stability through limited economic cooperation.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and the county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance and establishes an environment that will support economic opportunities for all our residents.»

«I'm proud to include this item in my 2015 Opportunity Agenda as it represents another step forward in our goal of growing economic opportunity for New Yorkers.»

While Zemsky is trying to bring as many projects to fruition as possible, SUNY Poly's new leader is moving to reshape the school and its ambitious economic development goals of years past.

He has further explained that his often - expressed view that British liberals should «reclaim our economic liberal heritage» 4 has been «misunderstood and misrepresented, as implying a downgraded commitment to the party's social liberal roots... The argument is that social liberal goals should be pursued with economically liberal means.»

«Perfect economic efficiency is a moving target, and as such an entirely waste - free program is likely an impractical and cost - prohibitive policy goal,» the report states.