Sentences with phrase «economic policy elites»

Ed Miliband's critique of Britain's over-financialised and rentier - centric form of capitalism was intellectually far more consistent with the views of economic policy elites than anything the Blairite camp has come up with.

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He mocked elites who focused on trade policy's benefits but who ignored the painful economic losses in too many communities.

Since Trump had fulminated against bankers and promised restrictive trade policies on the campaign trail, the appointment of Cohn, a consummate insider, was viewed as a major concession to the economic and business elite.

While the regime seems likely to remain stable in 2018, the struggle for power and assets among the political elite will continue to escalate, and economic and foreign policy challenges create long - term uncertainty.

To those who wish to hold their wealth exclusively in paper assets, implicitly trusting the policy elites to resurrect normally functioning capital markets and economic conditions, we say good luck.

If this is what theology is coming to affirm — that God is working providentially through American foreign policy to advance an ultimate divine plan that is consonant with the interests of an economic elite — then this is a God who might need to be ushered off the stage.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

The elite domination, continuing misery of the poor, rise of religious fundamentalism, impact of new economic policies, ecological crisis, and so on.

In the New Economic Policy, only 10 % of the elites are the real beneficiaries.

Favouring the people always entails punitive policies directed at elites who too readily convert their socio - economic advantages into political oppressions; policies ranging from publically conducted, popularly judged criminal trials to the violent, wholesale elimination of the nobility.

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.

«The coalition's dead end economic policies may please the self - interested City elite, but for real people in real communities they are a tragedy — a national disgrace.»

They conclude that «economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass - based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.»

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

As the realities of the present administration's economic policies begin to bare their fangs on the masses, the Nigerian political elite need to quickly re-assure the populace that they (the masses) will not bear the brunt of the economic meltdown alone.

All of the proposed solutions for global warming involve lots of central control, failed economic policies and enforced poverty for everyone but the elite who are advocating the policies.

that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

Last February, in a speech in Washington, D.C. that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

«The study found that while economic elites» and business groups» preferences often result in policy changes, public opinion has virtually no influence on policy outcomes.

Beyond the waste and misallocation of taxpayer dollars, these policies enable cronyism, favoring elites and undermining the fairness of our economic system.

Some of the policy changes required to address the climate change challenge may strike at the heart of political and economic interests of Pakistan's political elite.

The new economic policies undermined the rural Sunni poor while expanding the regime - linked private sector through a web of corrupt, government - backed joint ventures that empowered the Alawite military elite and a parasitic business aristocracy.