Sentences with phrase «economic measures of»

In 2005, I surveyed efforts to shift from strictly economic measures of progress, like gross domestic product, to a broader basket of indicators of well - being — everything from access to schools and health care to the quality of the environment.

Power - Line depicts current economic measures of labor and value in a process of disintegration.

Another criticism of economic measures of which the ISEW takes no account is that personal satisfaction is much more related to relative status in a community than to absolute income or wealth.

Such comprehensive improvements would cost an estimated $ 96 billion, according to the model, but could reduce HIV incidence in the U.S. by 54 percent and the mortality rate by 64 percent, at a cost - effectiveness ratio of $ 45,300 per quality - adjusted life year, or QALY, a standard economic measure of the value of a medical intervention.

4 The output gap is an economic measure of the difference between the actual output of an economy and its potential output.

Not exact matches

To put that a different way, by this one measure more innovation is occurring right now than during the post-Civil War portion of the Industrial Revolution and the post-WWII economic boom.

Business Insider combined five measures of labor - market and general economic health for the 40 metropolitan statistical areas with the biggest 2017 populations to get a sense of where those big cities» economies stand.

In a new analysis, Business Insider culled data across five measures of labor - market and general economic health for the 40 metropolitan statistical areas with the largest 2017 populations.

The dog walker you hired online is an example of the personalized and localized economy traditional economic measures might not be capturing.

While the GGEI is recognized as a leading international measure of the green economic performance of many countries, researchers at Yale (who also produce their own green country ranking each year) have criticized it for having limited geographic coverage.

Some of these measures exclude net realized investment gains (losses), net of tax, and / or net unrealized investment gains (losses), net of tax, included in shareholders» equity, which can be significantly impacted by both discretionary and other economic factors and are not necessarily indicative of operating trends.

While Japan has made progress on economic participation and opportunity for women — one of the report's four gender equality measures — it's seen a reversal in women's political empowerment.

Authors Mark Rovere and Brett J. Skinner found that although Canada is one of the biggest spenders on national health care within the 27 - member Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it nevertheless ranked below average on most of the indicators measuring availability of medical resources and services.

In economic news, the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation posted its slowest pace of annual increase since November 2015.

That estimate comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.

Gross Domestic Product growth, which is, generally, the measure of goods and services produced in the economy, has hovered around 2 percent, not the 4 percent the Fed and other monetary experts believe is necessary for an economic expansion.

«The direct economic impact on Japanese producers may be limited — only 2 percent of Japan's steel exports go to the U.S. — but Tokyo's failure to convince Washington to spare it from the new measures could be a sign of a more contentious turn in the bilateral relationship,» he said.

According to one of his drinking buddies from the financial sector: «Any measure enacted by fiat that prevents the free exchange of goods, labour and capital seeking economic gain is done at the cost of efficiency.

The banks were bloated with debt measuring six times the size of the country's entire economic output.

Citigroup's Economic Surprise Index, a measure of how much recent economic stats have been above or below expectations, is now at the third - highest level since the financial rEconomic Surprise Index, a measure of how much recent economic stats have been above or below expectations, is now at the third - highest level since the financial reconomic stats have been above or below expectations, is now at the third - highest level since the financial recovery.

But the continued success of the emerging economic powers (which is by no means assured) may depend in no small measure on recognizing the virtues that made America great, while avoiding the pitfalls that brought it to this unhappy moment.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (estimates the country's debt - to - GDP ratio (a measure of public debt burden) at around 190 % this year.

An economic update released that December — at the height of the U.S. economic crisis — did not contain any stimulus measures.

A breakthrough deal to fundamentally change China's economic policies is viewed as highly unlikely during the two - day visit, though a package of short - term Chinese measures could delay a U.S. decision to impose tariffs on around $ 50 billion worth of Chinese exports.

Moreover, they note, Xi knows he has a host of measures at his disposal for inflicting substantial economic and political pain on Trump.

For example, starting in 2008, Congress passed a measure as part of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 that let businesses deduct the full price of qualifying equipment purchased or financed during that tax year.

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

According to the OECD, U.K. GDP per capita — a measure of economic growth that divides GDP per the number of people in a country — has doubled since the country joined the EU in 1973.

StatsCan says it's important to measure underground economic activity whenever possible so that published measures of gross domestic product (GDP) are as exhaustive they can be.

While lucrative, the EU deal was always treated as a sort of stopgap measure, something to bolster Canada while it worked through the political, cultural and bureaucratic nightmare involved in expanding our trade with the world's new economic superpowers, China and India.

If these measures go into effect, the impact on the economy and small businesses would be modest, says Thomas Hungerford, senior economist and director of tax and budget policy at the Economic Policy Institute.

Until recently considered a safe bet, with many investors «overweight» on Russian assets, the country's markets now appear at the mercy of the U.S. Treasury, whose deployment of punitive economic measures Friday was its most severe yet.

Since the financial crisis (and arguably well before that), the central banks of developed countries have used draconian monetary measures as a means of staving off financial and economic collapse.

CNBC Rapid Update will offer new measures of how much an economic report changes the outlook on Wall Street for US growth forecasts.

Along with managing Canada's performance during the global economic crisis, I am pleased our government brought forward positive measures to make Canada one of the world's best places to do business.

The changes come even as Powell conceded during his first press conference that the likely economic effects of the new fiscal - policy measures were «very uncertain.»

Preserving the national currency has provided the UK with some measure of economic independence and flexibility.

Stability is the measure of a government's capacity to implement policy during a political, social, or economic crisis.

Almost 340,000 individuals participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey and General Social Survey from 2009 to 2013, which permitted Statistics Canada to perform community - level measures of life satisfaction for 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and 58 economic regions across the country.

To start with, the NFIB's measure is a better predictor of future economic growth than the University of Michigan's indicator.

In the eyes of the EU, the motivation of the U.S. is an economic safeguard measure in disguise, not a national security measure.

Since the 1990s, the total taxation of the Swedish economy as a percentage of GDP has fallen more than 5 %, while labor market reforms, such as Denmark's cutting of unemployment benefits have helped Scandanavian economies rocket up measures of economic freedom.

The trend worries economists because new businesses play a vital role in creating jobs, improving productivity and spurring economic growth; some researchers believe the decline in entrepreneurship, and in other measures of economic dynamism such as labor mobility, could be part of the reason the U.S. has experienced such a slow bounceback from the past two recessions.

From an economic policy perspective, pre-tax income is the measure of the economic effect of additional family income on gross domestic product, or GDP.

The efforts of central banks to stimulate activity through monetary measures has succeeded in keeping interest rates very low, but have not resulted in any significant uptick in real economic activity.

The best way to safeguard financial stability and improve the balance between economic and financial risk taking is to put in place policies that enhance the transmission of monetary policy to the real economy — thus promoting economic risk taking — and address financial excesses through well - designed macroprudential measures.

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

We measure the economic, social and environmental impact of our investments using industry - standard metrics, including the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards.

But a continuation of favorable economic growth and low default levels — which we expect — and measured Federal Reserve tightening — which we also expect — should support more narrow high - yield bond spreads for some time to come.

It is often far more difficult to raise money, foster an environment of economic efficiency, promote technological and operational change, and measure success in the charitable sector.