Sentences with phrase «economic institutions for»

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.
Underlining the health of the German economy compared with much of the rest of the eurozone, an independent bi-annual report produced by a range of economic institutions for the German Economics Ministry raised its forecast for the country's growth in 2016 from 1.6 % to 1.9 %, citing the strength of the labor market and private consumption.

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Investors and international institutions often criticize France for its rigid labor market and how that's a drag on its economic performance.
This fund will support the strategic research priorities of Canada's post-secondary institutions and help them excel globally in research areas that create long - term economic advantages for Canada.
No democracy in the world has been sustained over time without some independent institution that stands up for and advances worker rights, interests and economic welfare.
H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.
«Some of the nation's largest financial institutions understand that Airbnb is an economic empowerment tool that can generate important income for families, and they are working to recognize this,» wrote Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb co-founder and chief strategy officer, in a release.
Instead, the Financial Choice Act would offer the industry other types of relief: Institutions would have to undergo fewer stress tests to prove they could survive another economic disaster and they would get more information upfront about what they would be judged on, for example.
And rather, they threaten to undermine America's closest alliances, sabotage the prospects for a joint effective response to China's rise, and deliver a serious blow to the already fraying set of multilateral institutions that underpin global economic order.
Indeed, the World Economic Forum in its recent competitiveness ranking lists the UK among the top three countries in the world for «the most technologically - ready» economy, quality of scientific research institutions and management schools, strong intellectual property rights, and at the very top for foreign ownership of companies.
They were released simply to provide «advertising» for their respective institutions and their particular economic and political philosophies.
Economic growth is stunted for years, as homeowners and financial institutions take time to recover.
And for most Pakistanis... the most important problems they struggle with are corruption, weak representative institutions, and poor economic growth; the drone program is only a small part of their overall anger, most of which is directed toward their own governments.
The Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (Macdonald Commission) was appointed in 1982 to examine the future economic prospects of the country and the effectiveness of its political instiEconomic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (Macdonald Commission) was appointed in 1982 to examine the future economic prospects of the country and the effectiveness of its political instieconomic prospects of the country and the effectiveness of its political institutions.
Trump and many Republicans in Congress contended that the stricter regulations were too burdensome for financial institutions and were a key reason why economic growth since the Great Recession ended in 2009 had been lackluster.
Mark Carney watches above the world's sixth - biggest economic climate as governor of the Financial institution of England and heads a international banking watchdog, but somehow nonetheless finds time to train for a marathon.
«The Russian budget now is including $ 100 per barrel for the next three years and some more optimistic assumptions on economic growth, which are probably over-optimistic,» Guriev, who is currently a professor of Economics at Sciences Po, a French public research and higher education institution, told CNBC at the UBS European Conference in London.
Athens asked for a return of the resources it explained have been erroneously handed to creditors from Greece's personal financial institution recapitalisation fund, the Hellenic Economic Balance Facility (HFSF).
For the financial markets, those risks are compounded by the unbalanced «risk - on» exposure that investment managers and institutions adopted early this year, encouraged by a short - lived burst of economic activity, and faith in a central - bank backstop.
This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).
For example, since 2008 China's total debt has surged from 147 % of GDP to 251 %, as the Chinese government turned to debt to stimulate economic growth through its many state - owned banking institutions.
Beyond reforming current institutions, however, the report calls for «reform of the International Economic Order» and reconception of economic thinking to account for sustainEconomic Order» and reconception of economic thinking to account for sustaineconomic thinking to account for sustainability.
Also, the increasing discontent with the dominance of economic institutions in this country is one of the principal reasons for the belief that liberalism is impoverished (see BL, KP, PL).
Employing research on the worldwide drift of men from parental responsibility, Browning examines social, moral, religious, and economic dynamics that are weakening the family, and proposes both practical and theoretical resources for strengthening the institution of marriage.
Along with health and social welfare, education too has become a commodity in the market with self - financed technical institutions imparting training in technical and managerial skills for employment in Trans - national economic enterprises to those who can afford it.
But with huge plant investments and the nightmare of retrenchment facing educational institutions, the temptation is to see students not as ends for which schools exist, but as means to the economic survival of the institutions themselves.
As McBrien noted, this powerfully suggests the need to be attentive to justice issues within as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (nEconomic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (neconomic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347).
The Church is after all an institution that has seen to its own survival for century after century under a great variety of political, economic, and geographical conditions, sometimes admirably, sometimes perhaps not so admirably, without benefit of counsel from the likes of me.
Ulrich Duchrow has said rightly in Global Economy: A Confessional Issue for the Churches that the present perversion of economic, political and military institutions puts U.S. Christians in the situation of a status confessionis, a time that calls Christians to a special confession and resistance to the comprehensive wrongdoing in which we all are implicated.
It makes all the logical sense in the world that Time, Inc., had to put the movement on its cover and co-opt it, for Time's investment in the «In God we trust» capitalism and institutions of our political - economic - mythical lives is not inconsiderable.
Therefore, the entreaty of Latin America is for liberation from cultural domination, economic exploitation, military regression, social marginalization and political imperialism; it is an appeal for fairness in international trade and the establishment of a social order that promotes human dignity, respects democratic institutions and guarantees an equitable distribution of wealth.
It is due also in part to the fact that religious institutions in black communities have not been sufficiently cognizant of the radical implications which the changing political, economic and social realities have for their life.
An established church may be the immediate context in which a religious movement appears, and it may be the focus of the movement's ideology, but this institution is in turn likely to depend on the state and the economic hierarchy for support.
It is important for Christians to remember that every structure of justice, as embodied in political and economic institutions, (a) contains elements of injustice that stand in contradiction to the law of love; (b) contains higher possibilities of justice that must be realized in terms of institutions and structures; and (c) that it must be supplemented by the graces of individual and personal generosity and mercy.
There has been remarkable progress in the concern for social justice and, in many countries, in the social and economic institutions which give effect to this higher sense of justice.
-- participatory power for social and popular organisations in economic, political and cultural, regional and international institutions
Media increasingly represent the interests of forces at the centers of political and economic power, neglecting the concerns of churches and other institutions that advocate for alternative visions and futures.
The creation of the United Nations marked this shift, as did the emergence of institutions for economic integration, most notably the European Economic Community (now the Europeaneconomic integration, most notably the European Economic Community (now the EuropeanEconomic Community (now the European Union).
The systemic perspective can provide the general principles for developing the sorely needed sociotherapies for the larger groups, institutions, and socio - economic - political systems, which collectively determine the healing - growthing climate of our communities and of our world society.
Since the World Bank affects poor people around the globe more directly than any other social institution, John Cobb's exploration is important for anyone concerned about how Christians can creatively engage economic issues and trends.
Concern for the poor and for the earth indeed must be fundamental both to Christian faith and to the ordering of economic institutions as we move into 21st century.
Indeed, if marriage is not simply another economic institution determined by the laws of the market, but a fundamental human institution that corresponds to our nature as self - giving and procreating persons, marriage remains a vital institution for all people, whatever their income and economic interests.
Today these various concerns about culture, socio - economic justice, true equality for women, institutions, and the natural world are in some tension with one another.
If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.
Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a world where unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.
Issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism in which the social objectives of the peoples are destroyed for the sake of economic growth.
Governments, companies, research institutions, and international agencies should refine methods for quantifying the economic, environmental, and social benefits of food loss and waste reduction.
An acknowledged expert on psychological issues involving wealth and wealth transfer, she was a presenter at the World Economic Forum in Davos - Klosters, Switzerland, and is a frequent participant at the high wealth / private client conferences for major financial institutions.
The slow and steady build - up of democratic wealth - holding institutions provides an obvious avenue for the re-animation and re-radicalisation of both, through the generation of a new set of economic institutions and political power bases.
Foreign investors tend to positively notice that the Orbán government pursues neoliberal economic policies and espouses respect for international institutions, as long as they do not interfere too much domestically.
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