Sentences with phrase «economic problems at»

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In fact the biggest economic problem is precisely that those productivity gains are barely being shared with workers at all.

The political discontent in Poland is another problem at the EU table at a time when the region needs to deal with Brexit, an economic crisis in Greece, the rise of populism, among others.

This economic switch means that miners won't be motivated to throw as much computing resources at these problems, thereby reducing the energy consumed.

She spoke about the problem of perpetuated gender stereotypes at the World Economic Forum this week.

«Her problem is to remind people of her strengths and how her strengths are what the country needs right now,» says Robert Shapiro, an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton and to Hillary Clinton when she was in the Senate, and a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy.

Like the rest of Europe, Italy has endemic problems: A north - south divide and economic divergence, corruption and bureaucracy as well as troubles with migration, anti-establishment politics and a political system that is sluggish at best, and chaotic at worst.

According to a survey released last week by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a strong majority (two - thirds) of small businesses think Capitol Hill politics are «at the heart of the country's economic problems» and 76 % believe the current regulatory environment doesn't favor someone looking to start or grow a business.

While Carney's move to drastically cut interest rates in Canada at the beginning of the financial crisis was prophetic, Philip Aldrick of the Telegraph likens the situation to Canada being an innocent bystander to a horrendous car crash with the U.K. economy at the wheel: the enormity and complexity of the economic problems Carney will face are on a whole different level.

Google's effort to offer high - speed Internet access to consumers at home has run into the same economic problem that bedeviled almost every challenger in the market over the last two decades.

Still others see economic performance, in macro terms like GDP growth, and conclude that there is no problem at all.

While the extent of the seasonal problem will be debated, monitoring year - over-year growth rates is a matter of simple prudence at this juncture not only for ECRI's indexes but also for other economic data.

This seems very counterintuitive at first, even if the history behind it is quite abundant, and very few economists seem aware of the problem (which is why most economic forecasts mistakenly focus on the pace with which reforms are likely to be implemented, and are always disappointed), but in fact the reasons are not so hard to understand.

«The big problem in the Italian system is that they acted very late,» said Silvia Merler, an affiliate fellow at Bruegel, a European research firm that focuses on economic issues.

At the moment, the $ PAC team and community are keen to focus on the hyperinflation problems of Venezuela's national currency Bolivar and to help the economic rehabilitation of Cucuta, Colombia.

The British economic recovery is still fragile and faces many of the same problems Carney seemed unable to solve during his tenure in Canada: sluggish labour productivity, businesses that are stockpiling cash, and a property bubble that seems at risk of bursting.

Sergei Guriev, a former advisor to the Russian government, told CNBC that, should oil prices stay at their near - record lows of around $ 82 a barrel, Russia, which is basing its economic forecasts on a much higher oil price, would face a «serious problem.»

Some observers, such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, have ranked Canada's housing market as among the world's frothiest, but Canadian economists and the Bank of Canada don't see a problem at this point.

If a country scores a very low mark on all of these factors, or at least most of these factors, there is a good chance that it would be subject to an international loss of confidence and ensuing economic problems.

After confronting the «knowledge problem» at the heart of discretionary monetary policy — that policymakers are unable to know the true structure of an increasingly complex and global economic system — Dorn calls for the establishment of a Centennial Monetary Commission to evaluate the performance of the Fed over its 100 - plus years of discretionary monetary authority and to discuss how best to reform the country's central bank.

After all, if the official plan to address a «price inflation» problem involves fixing prices and distributing «Whip Inflation Now» buttons, and at the same time the central bank and the government are experimenting with Keynesian demand - boosting strategies, then there's only one way for economic confidence to go, and that's down.

The second problem is that in order to get some of its debt absolved, Puerto Rico agreed to impose the harsh austerity measures — reducing education and health spending, for instance — that hurt growth at the same time that thousands are fleeing to the mainland in search of economic opportunity.

Conservative spokesmen have pointed to the «trickling down» of the benefits of economic growth as the ultimate solution to racial problems; they have at times seemed to court the support of segregationist elements; and they remain at this late date without a positive program of action aimed at narrowing the yawning chasm separating the black poor from the rest of the nation.

The problem is indeed to develop a pedagogy which will allow us to move from an analysis at the micro level to that of the macro level to be able to understand the problem of economic globalisation and its social effects.

Joseph Pichler, who is dean of the business school at the University of Kansas, notes that the economic problem is complex and has two parts.

This ratings drive, on which fees for commercials are based, is the economic reality at the root of the problem.

At the same time as the focus of much interfaith activity has become more practical, those in positions of leadership in the political and economic spheres are both recognizing the importance of religion in shaping the modern world and acknowledging that there is a spiritual and ethical dimension to the major problems facing humankind.

The great champions of the Social Gospel application of the message of Jesus and the prophets to the industrial, social, and economic problems of America were men who looked at those problems with aesthetic sensitivity.

The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of our time.

At least part of the answer to this problem is economic.

That's how Mussolini got in, that's how Hitler got in, they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.

In any baffling or overwhelming problem — frustrated hopes, domestic tension, a vocational misfit, economic insecurity, a world at war or drifting toward it — what prayer can do depends on what God stands ready to do.

This ratings drive is the economic reality which in many ways lies at the root of the problem, at least in television.

This control of political decisions by economic interests is already a serious problem at the national level.

At Edinburgh who thought of economic and industrial problems as of more than peripheral interest to missions?

On paper, «clean meat» solves so many socio - economic problems that if Memphis is able to get its products on shelves at an affordable price it's hard to imagine consumers won't be interested.

Economic class differences in the U.S. have caused problems — frequently racial ones — at cheap or free - admission high school events.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and lower cognitive test scores at age 4.

The attorneys add that evidence at the trial will show funding problems put the project at risk, which in turn could have embarrassed Cuomo and hurt his efforts at economic revitalization in the area.

However, public spending was not at the core of Spain's economic problems; nor was the Spanish complex and wasteful public administration.

(June 22, 2017, Albany) A coalition of prominent government watchdog groups say Governor Cuomo, Senate Leader Flanagan and Speaker Heastie have completely failed to address the huge problems revealed by last year's alleged rigging of $ 800m in state economic development contracts and that billions of state funds remain at risk for bid rigging and pay to play.

We have problems with the health service - the mind boggles at how we are going to get through that - and a world economic crisis.

However, it is unlikely to win plaudits for the Party if, at the same time as making the case for far more active government, the Party insists on taking credit for Conservative measures — above all the fiscal mandate — which have frustrated recovery and intensified Britain's economic problems.

«The same dysfunctional tax and spend policies at the root of our economic woes are the prevailing problem in both Albany and Washington.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

«We're the economic problem that's dragging this state down and where I think if you go and you talk to various mayors of these villages they will tell you, «look, we're operating at peak efficiency here, why are you throwing up more roadblocks in our way?

Gillibrand told the conference that hitting that economic message and addressing the problems at the root of the issue will help them connect with rural voters in upstate New York, where the economic recovery has lagged behind other parts of the country.

This might mitigate the free rider problem, but only at colossal economic cost and only with the corollary of near - complete loss of political sovereignty for Eurozone members.

In its annual human rights report, the FCO noted the junta's persistent violations were at the heart of the country's political, economic and social problems.

Whoever's in charge come May 8th, unless they put climate change at the heart of their programme for office the UK will be building up huge economic and ecological problems for the future.