Sentences with phrase «economic policy officials»

Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and one of the Trump administration's most senior economic policy officials, struck a similar note in his own farewell note about Cohn, saying he «never expected that the coworker I would work closest, and best, with at the White House would be a «globalist.

Similarly Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh taught economics at Harvard he was a senior economic policy official for India for many years before he came into politics.

Not exact matches

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano said he was «disappointed,» and posited that S&P didn't «understand sufficiently that the Cabinet is pressing for fiscal reconstruction.»

In summary, the Federal Reserve has more than enough information to conduct a proper monetary policy in the absence of official federal government economic data.

I believe that the lack of official federal government economic statistics might actually enhance the Fed's management of monetary policy.

Merkel refused to former President Barack Obama to even consider such a thing, and official international organizations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund have never asked Germany to lay off its totally inappropriate beggar - thy - neighbor policies.

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

Chinese and Canadian officials meeting at a seminar on asset management and economic development in the central and western regions of China, feel that the Chinese government's preferential policies for the introduction of foreign investment in the region, along with an abundance of natural resources and the booming infrastructure development, offer opportunities for economic cooperation between...

In interviews in the days after Morneau's Oct. 24 economic statement, several key cabinet ministers and well - placed government officials all insisted the brakes haven't been applied to a string of ambitious and inherently risky policy unveilings, planned for the coming months and beyond.

The moral Contrasting Ms. Bachmann's remarks to the panicky claims by Mr. Geithner and Hank Paulson in September 2008 confirm a basic axiom of today's junk economics: When an economic error becomes so widespread that it is adopted as official government policy, there is always a special interest at work to promote it.

Yet some of the most powerful officials crafting Trump's economic policies have deep roots in the global, corporate realm.

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

Also: «German finance officials said trying to persuade the Greek government to draw up a rigorous economic policy program is like riding a dead horse.»

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.

In a related statement, Fed officials said: «Given the economic outlook, and recognizing the time it takes for policy actions to affect future economic outcomes, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 1/4 to 1/2 percent.»

The bloc faces risks from Trump's protectionist trade policies and U.S. economy overheating, official says

BRUSSELS — The European Union unveiled an upbeat economic outlook for the eurozone Thursday, but warned of rising risks from President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies and of the U.S....

In a policy statement last month, Fed officials said they expect inflation «will remain subdued» and that the Fed «sees some risk that inflation could persist for a time below rates that best foster economic growth and price stability in the longer term.»

Previously, Cam served as senior economic advisor to the leader of Canada's official opposition and director of international policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

BOE's Carney Suggests Falling Unemployment Doesn't Mean Rates Will Rise Bank of England Gov. Carney said the U.K. central bank will look at a broad range of economic factors when assessing the need for higher interest rates, a sign that officials may be preparing to play down the link between BOE policy and falling unemployment.

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

It is true that our economic growth rates following the 2007 - 2009 recession have not approached the levels seen coming out of previous recessions, and as we shift from highly accommodative monetary policy, even Fed officials have called for additional fiscal - policy support.

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

High degree» will be held on March 20 — 22, 2014 in Exhibition Hall of Odessa Sea Commercial Port Official support to projects is provided by: • Assembly of European wine producing regions; • Association of cultural and tourist exchange (ACTE), in collaboration with Council of Europe; • Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine; • Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine; • Antitrust Committee of Ukraine; • State Agriculture Inspectorate of Ukraine; • Ukrainian corporation on viticulture and wine producing «Ukrvinprom»; • Odessa Regional State Administration.

The speech followed a pattern Dr. Bawumia has become notable for: a masterful blend of solid policy and hardcore politics that is often difficult to untangle by objective Ghanaians seeking to rely on the technocratic experience of the former senior Bank of Ghana official to make sense of Ghana's economic situation in an unbiased, non-partisan, manner.

The China phenomenon is frequently depicted at official and unofficial levels as having put European - US ties under strain, mostly arising from a confluence of the growing significance of Asia in US economic and strategic policy; Europe's political and economic malaise; and China's more confident and assertive external policies that include the prospect of enhanced financial and economic ties between major European countries and China.

Public radio reporter Karen DeWitt (who is employed by WXXI News) asked the Democratic governor whether he was considering new policies in light of the national attention on sexual misconduct, as well as the recent resignation of a state economic development official who was under investigation for harassment.

The announcement of the campaign comes from advocates and elected officials as Comptroller Stringer and the Fiscal Policy Institute release comprehensive reports highlighting the significant social and economic benefits of extending driving privileges to undocumented immigrants.

Critics of David Cameron's EU policy claimed to be vindicated today after the prime minister admitted officials were ignoring his economic proposals.

«In addition to working with state and local officials on legislative matters and issues of critical importance to American and the airline industry, Towns oversees American's interactions with municipal, public policy and economic development organizations in New York, Boston and elsewhere,» American Airlines stated.

But, perhaps frustratingly for economic - development officials and other policy wonks, it's unclear how New York, with its rapidly shrinking manufacturing base and sky - high taxes, beat the odds.

«The report from the Treasury is an official admission from the IN campaign that if we vote to stay in the EU then immigration will to continue to increase by hundreds of thousands year on year... As long as we are in the EU we can not control our borders and can not develop an immigration policy which is both truly humane and in our long term economic interests.»

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.

Cuomo instead governed as a Clintonian centrist, pushing for a socially liberal agenda (same - sex marriage, abortion rights, gun control) that he hoped would balance out economic policies that prompted the state's highest - ranking GOP official to call him «a good, moderate Republican.»

Public radio reporter Karen DeWitt asked the Democratic governor whether he was considering new policies in light of the national attention on sexual misconduct, as well as the recent resignation of a state economic development official who was under investigation for harassment.

Mr Hands, MP for Chelsea and Fulham, said that his department had a strong core of trade policy officials which had quadrupled in size since June 24 last year — the day after the EU referendum — and was continuing to grow, with policy and country specialists as well as economic analysts and lawyers.

► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.

After years of promoting economic growth at almost any cost, Beijing is now struggling to change official attitudes, despite a raft of new policies, including tying civil servants» career prospects to their energy - saving achievements.

Through well - publicized partnerships with elected officials like Chicago mayor Richard Daley and through Bill and Melinda Gates's personal advocacy for their high - school agenda in such forums as the National Governors Association and the National Economic Club, the foundation has signaled its intention to leverage its investments through policy change.

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

The decade before May 2014, when the serving government came to power, I likened former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a World Bank official seeking to advance the economic policy of liberalization, which he introduced as finance minister in 1991.

The US will be sending a «much smaller» delegation than in the past, according to an unnamed State Department official, quoted by the Chicago Tribune, and it will be focused on ensuring that no decisions are made in Bonn «that would prejudice our future policy,» undermine competitiveness for American businesses or restrict US economic growth.»

Industry's election - year message is one of opportunity and a call for leadership — opportunity to simultaneously add to U.S. economic and environmental progress, and leadership by elected officials on energy policies and approaches that will foster safe development going forward.

«If environmental decisions are fundamentally framed as questions of economic welfare,» Sagoff concludes, «public officials and the public itself will opt nearly every time for whatever policy promises more economic growth, more production, and more jobs.»

If Vatican officials dig a bit deeper into the realities of policies that marry economic growth to green technologies, they will realize it is not exactly a match made in heaven.

If some policy maker (who could well be a British treasury official) thinks that the Business as Usual scenario is too pessimistic (read, too optimistic regarding developing world economic growth), he or she is free to choose one of the lower emission scenarios, of which there are many.

We've pursued and achieved economic growth for several centuries, and through official policy for over 50 years.

Looking forward, the report points to four factors that will determine whether offshore M&A levels improve in 2017: progress between EU and UK officials on establishing a new relationship; changes to the international trade and immigration policy out of the US; China's ability to manage its economic slowdown; and progress in the Eurozone's continued economic recovery.

National courts in the EU face three kinds of challenge in dealing with competition law: - the factual and often legal complexity of many cases — the need to understand often detailed economic and other evidence is routine in most competition cases; - an official policy of encouraging more claimants to come forward and assert their rights; and - the «astonishing diversity» of procedures across the EU for enforcing competition law claims.

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