Passionate about resiliency, her projects have included master planning ecotourism infrastructure in Central and South America, regional sustainable
economic policy modeling and implementation, research and evidence - based sustainable land reclamation in sub-Saharan Africa, therapeutic landscapes, and sustainable revitalization of fragmented urban cores.
Not exact matches
While
models that attempt to forecast potential
economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring
policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.
Emerging markets also account for over 50 % of world GDP, and have been responsible for the lion's share of global growth ever since the 2008 financial crisis, but capital has flooded out of them as the Federal Reserve has tightened its monetary
policy and the limits of China's
economic model have become apparent.
I want to take the lessons of Stonyfield's positive
economic business
model to a larger audience, with the goal of influencing
policy makers and business thinkers.
This paper investigates the significance of the mix of monetary and fiscal
policies for financial stability through counterfactual simulations of three key historical episodes, using the Bank's main
policy model, ToTEM (Terms - of - Trade Economic Mo
model, ToTEM (Terms - of - Trade
Economic ModelModel).
Deloitte Access Economics offers a full suite of
economic advisory services including
economic forecasting,
modelling, analysis and advisory services to help our clients plan for the future, understand the implications of major decisions, and navigate the complexities of
economic policy.
As a legislative
policy arm, WIPP identifies important trends and opportunities and provides a collaborative
model for the public and private sectors to increase the
economic power of women - owned businesses.
Earlier in the fall, we commissioned
economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate
policies.
The relationship between monetary
policy and financial stability may depend on the specific
economic conditions in which we find ourselves.6 Moreover, the processes resulting in financial cycles, with periods of unsustainable debt buildup, occasional crises and periods of deleveraging, are not well captured by standard
models.7 We have more work to do before we can be fully confident about our conclusions.
Canada's image on the world stage has grown considerably in recent years and our actions in specific aspects of
economic policy are considered by many non-Canadians to be a role
model for other nations.
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One form of this
model was practiced beginning in the 1930s by the Soviet Union, which more or less invented it, although we also see similarities in German
economic policies during the same period.
By advocating for
policy changes, the Council seeks to create an
economic model in which what is good for business is good for the environment and society.
The
model was a pact between Beijing and the
economic ruling class of Hong Kong to maintain order, the rule of law, and to prevent the adoption of any anti-Beijing
policies.
Action Plan to Prevent US Monetary and
Economic Collapse May 1, 2015 http://jaytaylormedia.com/media/taylor20150501.mp3 Outline David Jensen talks about Central banker's radical
policy, discusses China's
model for the New World Order and says sound money is critical for the economy.
The
economic modelling research on top provincial climate and energy
policies is available here.
Too many in the guild tighten their grip when they should open their minds to new data sources, new data analytics, new
economic models, and a new paradigm for
policy.
Likewise, recent estimates by the Tax
Policy Center and the Penn Wharton Budget
Model show that dynamic effects would marginally reduce the revenue loss in the first decade but significantly increase it over the long run because of the
economic consequences of higher debt.
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policy.
Knowledge of
economic history is critical for good
policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand
models and theories, in real life
policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.
Subject: Cross country analysis Denmark
Economic integration Finland Fiscal
policy General equilibrium
models Monetary
policy Norway Oil prices Russian Federation Spillovers Sweden
Banking and Monetary Statistics 1914 - 1941 (1,400 +) Data on the nominal term structure
model from Kim and Wright (6 +) Historical Federal Reserve Data NBER Macrohistory Database (2,000 +) Penn World Table 7.1 (4,400 +) Penn World Table 9.0 (3,800 +) Recession Probabilities Weekly U.S. and State Bond Prices, 1855 - 1865
Economic Policy Uncertainty Sticky Wages and Comovement (3 +) A Millennium of Macroeconomic Data for the UK (9 +)
But for my purposes it is enough to say that the assumptions I have listed have many practical consequences when governments adopt
policies oriented to
economic growth on the basis of advice from neoliberal economists, or, indeed, many other economists who share this
model.
There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public
policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala
Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the
economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and
economic growth.
Looking primarily to
models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for
policy in regulating media and violence can also distract
policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant
economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.
Furthermore, rather than a simple return to the corporatist
model of 1970s social democracy, John McDonnell has been impressively leading the way in innovative
economic thinking, including on regional development banks, popularly controlled monetary
policy, and most intriguingly his consideration of a universal basic income.
Ironically, as the trade union movement recognises, the EU's progressive
policies to soften market competition through social
policy contrast with the market - oriented Anglo - Saxon
economic model.
After following the Alaska Dividend since 1999, I want to share six lessons that supporters of progressive
economic policy should learn from what I call «the Alaska
model,» but first some basic background.
The effort to export the «nano business
model» to other parts of New York represents Cuomo's continued remaking of
economic development
policy which, for the past 30 years, has mostly involved scattershot subsidies to companies.
His second stint at the business department under the Labour government was marked by fresh thinking about industrial
policy, which I wish he had had the opportunity to develop; and he seems more willing than some to acknowledge that the pre-2008
economic model was flawed.
Governor Cuomo's Regional Councils create a more efficient business
model that empowers individual regions to determine what is best for their own communities and incentivizes thoughtful
economic policies through competition.
Yet the
model has come in for repeated criticism from government watchdogs, who say an
economic policy that tries to create risky new industries virtually from scratch, and that spends millions in taxpayer dollars to create every new job, is folly.
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.
Scenarios in the
model reflect different
economic and
policy options that would influence e.g. natural gas prices, hydropower availability or cost of solar power.
It is the central theme of The Death of Economics that the simple
model of perfect competition which lies at the heart of much standard
economic teaching is seriously flawed, and that
policies based on it will be erroneous.
According to Lester Brown, author of the 2003 book, Plan B (and three subsequent updates) and founder of the non-profit environmental think tank, Earth
Policy Institute, the plan is based on replacing the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy with a new
economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy.
In a long piece, Princeton University economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says
economic forecasting
models used to analyze proposed energy
policies are insufficient for the task:
«The significance of the
economic and inequality variables in the
model suggests that systematic national
policies aimed at reducing social, gender, and
economic equality could positively affect health workforce production,» said Dr. Squires.
A new scientific paper by a University of Maryland - led international team of distinguished scientists, including five members of the National Academies, argues that there are critical two - way feedbacks missing from current climate
models that are used to inform environmental, climate, and
economic policies.
To determine the ideal mitigation
policy, a research team led by Princeton University, the University of Vermont and the University of Texas at Austin employed a climate -
economic model to examine two ethical approaches to valuing human population.
Having better
economic models should increase confidence in projections of the effects of various
policies, and greatly improve communication with climate modelers.
Methods: To understand the effects of
economic forces from climate
policy on terrestrial carbon and land use changes, the researchers used the MiniCAM, an integrated assessment
model developed by the PNNL team over the last two decades, to compare different scenarios.
Director Dot Harris, Office of
Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and
Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role
models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.
More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological
model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and
economic impacts of proposed biofuel
policies, forming a combined
model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.
Drawing on her lifetime of love for fashion and a professional career in social services and
policy work, Jacquie and her good, good friend of 18 years, Franklin Gutierrez, started Moesel Clothing with the goal to provide high quality and stylish clothing for kids through a
model that would help support production and
economic opportunity for skilled artisans in Peru.
During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization
models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international
policies that circumscribe human
economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.
These latest findings of the longitudinal «Ypsilanti study» — one of the first efforts to analyze the effects of preschool education on children and a
model for the Head Start programs established under the
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 — were made known at last month's annual
policy conference of the High Scope Educational...
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Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the
Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational
model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»