Sentences with phrase «economic policy debate»

For now, the dominant theme of the nation's economic policy debate remains centered on the comparative dangers of deficits and inflation.

** September 15th UPDATE ** The SLF's amendments to tomorrow's economic policy debate have rightly attracted attention from party members, the leadership and the media.

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Harper wants the debate about economic policy to revolve around balanced budgets.

The timing of Lane's remarks suggests that he too disliked the tenor of the debate around the role of fiscal policy in helping achieve faster economic growth.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

Debating whether climate policy can fuel economic growth, with Christopher Horner, «The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming & Environmentalism» author & Competitive Enterprise Institute; Chris Miller, Greenpeace global warming campaign director and CNBC's Becky Quick

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

Much of the debate over Trump's trade policy seems to miss the point that the economic effects of any trade measure depend on how it affects capital.

Rather than taking a holistic approach to the economic health of the nation, the debate tends to focus on individual policies in isolation.

In the upcoming months as the political debate unfolds, any economic policy proposed by any political party, to be financed from the rather small projected surpluses, should be judged, at a minimum, on how it will strengthen economic growth and job creation.

For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.

Before the first presidential debate fades into the next news cycle, there are three economic points that bear revisiting: We need a new paradigm for trade policy.

Two particular EU policy initiatives worth highlighting in the context of European responses to China's growing economic footprint in the region are: 1) the Europe's Connectivity Strategy and 2) the on - going debate on a potential EU - wide investment screening mechanism.

We conduct extensive opinion and economic research and work with our rapidly growing network of 40,000 small business owners across the country to ensure their voices are an integral part of the public policy debate.

At its core this debate is not about economic policy but about competing visions of the role, scope and validity...

TALKING THE TALK Aside from their discussion over the stance of monetary policy, officials likely continued to debate fine - tuning their communications strategy by adopting numerical thresholds for economic variables that would guide the central bank's unconventional stimulus.

Those who have followed the debate over same - sex marriage understand very clearly that law and culture ought to work together to promote and preserve families and communities; we should apply the same vigor to strengthening economic policies that make it easier for people not to sin.

Therefore a new debate must begin on human rights - oriented economic policies where every person and his dignity matters.

If we are giving significantly of our own money to combat hunger or poverty or injustice we are very likely to become interested enough in these efforts to invest some time and energy in them, to work with individuals and to become involved in policy debates and to confront the economic system.

But I'm looking for an objective, non partisan explanation of whether or not Trickle Down economics has been effective in the past People debate whether economics is a hard or soft science, but I think it's fair to say that even if it's a hard science, conclusions can still differ and, at the end of the day, economic policy certainly can, and often is,...

[1] An good recent debate on the Venezuelan economy that represents both pro- and anti-Chávez positions can be found on al - Jazeera and is between Mark Weisbrot and economist with the Centre for Economic Policy and Research and Arturo Porzecanski, an international finance and Latin American economic analyst http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/02/201321384852270Economic Policy and Research and Arturo Porzecanski, an international finance and Latin American economic analyst http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/02/201321384852270economic analyst http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/02/201321384852270930.html

Against the backdrop of a parliamentary debate on the «bedroom tax,» David Cameron announced this week that his policy of downsizing the state isn't going to stop when the economic crisis is over.

«In an attempt to take credit for the emerging recovery, Clegg has decided to stage what Cable and some on the left regard as an artificial showdown over economic policy during a set - piece two - hour debate and vote on Monday.

September 14th On Monday, Liberal Democrats will debate economic policy at our Glasgow conference.

This enabled the Labour leader to move the national economic debate from dry discussions about deficits on to the impact of coalition policies on ordinary, hard - working families squeezed by rising prices.

Interpretations of the National Interest have been at the forefront of the debate in an entirely new way for the British, pitching referendum against parliamentary voting, domestic and against foreign policy issues, numerical majorities against political and economic arguments, elites against elites.

Peter Kilfoyle thinks my co-authoring an evidence - rich policy paper on urban regeneration's failure to generate economic convergence in places such as Liverpool and Hull means that I live «in a parallel universe» (TP Debate, April).

Voters» register debate transcends NDC, NPP — IEA The Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Jean Mensa has defended the policy think tank's decision to hold a debate on the country's voters» register, saying the institute has every right to discuss such national issues.

This debate took in not just political questions but issues of economic organization and public policy more broadly.

These things are not unimportant, but they were at the expense of what might have been more prolonged debate about Labour's core economic policies.

Meanwhile one of the dominant themes of the Labour leadership campaign is not an attack on this reactionary economic policy but a wholly ill - informed debate on immigration.

Last night's debate had several contentious moments, including a fight over economic policies that evolved from a completely unrelated question.

We welcome constructive debate on natural resource taxation policy as part of the overall contribution to economic development that responsible mining investments can make.

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says there is little evidence to support the expansion of high - skilled guest worker programs, like those proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate.

«Assemblywoman Meng will gladly debate Dan Halloran and his support for the radical, ultraconservative, republican agenda, including his plans to privatize Social Security, pass The Ryan budget and continue the failed economic policies focused on supporting the wealthiest 1 % of Americans,» said Meng spokesperson Austin Finan.

«The debate in this election won't fall on nonsensical personal stuff,» explained Collins» senior adviser, Chris Grant, «but rather on economic vision: Whose policies are going to let the private sector create more jobs?»

The debate opens with an amendment put forward by the Social Liberal Forum (SLF), a left - wing pressure group, for a change of economic policy.

Possibly riding high on the relief — rather than out - and - out joy — of winning an important symbolic vote this morning when a motion was put to the conference hall on continuing the coalition's economic policies was carried, a debate where the Lib Dem leader himself summed up, he continued to push coalition strength and struggle over capitulating to his party's leftwing.

People debate whether economics is a hard or soft science, but I think it's fair to say that even if it's a hard science, conclusions can still differ and, at the end of the day, economic policy certainly can, and often is, partisan to some degree.

On Wintour and Watt, he writes that reports of Miliband's speech in yesterday's welfare debate have missed «the most significant aspect of his speech — an apparent attempt to reframe Labour's economic policy which is being run by his great rival Ed Balls.»

We will host a discussion around economic policy over on our new blog dedicated to social liberal economics, PlanC.socialliberal.net, and there will of course be a full an open debate on ownership, democracy and power, at the SLF Conference in Manchester on July 13th — here, we will focus on the wider politics of social liberalism.

And third, the uncertainty over whether the world is on the right economic path, with debates about trade policy and how to support growth.

Addressing the TUC Congress during the debate on Pensions, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said this: «No one can be in any doubt that ordinary working people and families are under a sustained assault as a result of the ideologically - driven programme of the coalition government and their failed economic policy.

So, yes, dictatorships, in some circumstances, are unique in increasing the efficiency of governance by reducing delays in the formulation and implementation of policies due to the absence of the need for consensus and endless debates to implement projects or policy and the unique ability to calibrate complete legal systems by decree and even an ability to stay focused over long periods, accelerating economic development.

With the party divided between social and economic liberals, debates on nuclear power, the economy, tuition fees, green policy and taxation are unlikely to yield unanimous responses, resulting in internal division which may hinder the party's ability to project a clear and consistent message in the run up to 2015.

He's challenging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, to a debate on economic policy.

Andrew Simms, policy director of The New Economics Foundation, dismisses all the economic models outlined in last night's chancellors» debate and suggests a new name for 11 Downing Street.

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Three Republican presidential candidates stated their belief in climate change last night during two debates that wandered from economic policies to sharp attacks on the media.

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