Sentences with phrase «economic impact figures»

The sustained rise in contract activity suggests that closed existing - home sales, which are the important final economic impact figures, should continue to improve in the months ahead,» Yun added.

Not to mention that economic impact figures from pro sports leagues are both biased and highly questionable.

Economic impact figures for earlier tournaments have been hotly disputed, given the difficulty of separating the World Cup from other economic factors.

Not exact matches

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

But while the raw economic benefits are clear — 74 % of Indian households earn less than US$ 2,000 per year, while the average outsourcing worker makes double that figure — Nadeem questions the deeper impact of the «emotional labour» that service work involves.

Extrapolating figures from a 1993 city study on the economic impact of O'Hare International and Midway Airports, Whitney's group contends that the lakefront field adds $ 57 million a year to the local economy.

As discussed below, this figure dramatically underestimates the impact of the proposed revenue package on the private sector employers and the state's economic climate.

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.

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.

The economic impact of violence was based on implementation costs and Home Office figures, taking account of inflation and other relevant factors.

That figure will rapidly increase each year as warmer temperatures thin permafrost, Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the economic impact study, wrote in an e-mail.

Based on some given figures from the study «Bioinspiration: And Economic Progress Report» created by Fermanian Business & Economic Institute, the biomimetic Influence in different huge industries is translated in a considerable impact in the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, in U.S.A. and in the global economy in 2030.

In his study, Hanushek calculated the economic value related to effective teaching by drawing on a research literature that provides precise estimates of the impact of students» achievement levels on their lifetime earnings, and by combining these figures with estimated impacts of more - effective teachers on student achievement.

Further, once the impact of higher levels of cognitive skills are taken into account, the significance for economic growth of school attainment, i.e., additional years of schooling, dwindles to nothing (see Figure 3).

Dr. Clower examined the entire domestic supply chain, estimating direct, indirect and induced economic impacts to represent the entire journey of a product in the U.S. (Imported products were not counted as being part of the pet industry's economic impact until they reached our shores, though they were included in sales figures.)

(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 artist was a key figure of Tokyo's Anti-Art Movement in the late 1950s, where his performative paintings and installations marked the beginning of his preoccupation with the impact of nuclear catastrophe and the excess of consumer society associated with the post-war economic boom.

«As I scratch my head in an effort to figure out the AIG bonuses and wonder how the economic stimulus is going to impact my life and business, I can't help but think about what makes real economic sense to me.Over the last 20 years, we have run an economy based upon who can supply the lowest price, not considering social and environmental impact.

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.

Figure 3 here http://www.springerlink.com/content/g02124153m05410k/fulltext.pdf shows that even a 1 m rise over a century would have negligible economic impact on Australia.

As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainteconomic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertaintEconomic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

Regional Impacts and shown in the bottom chart in Figure 2 of your 2015 Working Paper Economic Impacts of Climate Change here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=wps-75-2015.pdf&site=24

The estimated global cost, after adaptation, is $ 200B for 0.5 m rise and $ 1T for 1 m rise in 2100: The economic impact of substantial sea - level rise These costs are dwarfed by the benefits for agriculture and health (see Figure 3 in the first link).

I'd like to run FUND and reproduce your Figure 3 (economic impact per degree warming for nine sectors).

My questions are regarding: Tol, 2013, «The economic impact of climate change in the 20th and 21st centuries», Figure 3 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-012-0613-3:

Commenting on the release of the emissions figures, Dr Mary Kelly, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, «the Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductions.»

From Civil Eats: [Straight economic figures] are more difficult to project, partly because the benefits are often measured in terms of what is not happening — like adverse environmental and health impacts — or practices with indirect benefits, such as crop diversity.