Sentences with phrase «economic questions facing»

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funds research into the big social and economic questions facing us today.

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This begs important questions about the wisdom of state and local economic development strategies and their ability to remain focused on addressing the real challenges American communities face today.

Some of these questions pertain to how aggressively a central bank should strive to return inflation sustainably to target in the face of other economic forces.

Vietnam's has recently jumped from low to lower - middle income, and policy makers are now facing questions about avoiding the «middle - income trap» and generating economic growth without increased exploitation of natural resources and cheap labour that would result in deteriorating environmental and social standards.

In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

Surely the truth, for those of us who seek to understand the portents we see multiplying around us, is that we must face the fact that in no sphere, whether economic — political or social, artistic or mystical, can anything stable or enduring be built on Earth until we have found a positive answer to the following question:

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

The Turnbull government continues to face questions about the NBN as it sells a new economic agenda.

One of the questions facing European policy - makers today is thus how Europe can exert influence in an increasingly globalised world despite its comparative decline in military strength and economic capacity vis - a-vis the new emerging powers.

The gaffe comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs face questions over their effectiveness.

Ed Balls has accused the Chancellor of being in denial about the economic perils facing Britain after US growth figures posed fresh questions about the Government's austerity measures.

Kolb believes Cuomo will face questions surrounding his economic development spending and the corruption trial of his former close aide, set to begin this month.

Zemsky, after three and a half hours of questions, faced reporters, where he was asked about the disconnect between how the Cuomo administration and state lawmakers view the success of the economic development programs.

After 3.5 hours of questions, Zemsky faced reporters, where he was asked about the disconnect between how the Cuomo administration and state lawmakers view the success of the economic development programs.

If you're facing this financial reality with your company's new concept, ask yourself the following question: Does this idea increase my business» exposure, engagement and economic security?

When we think of questions such as «how to provide a stable growth of the global economy so as put the aggrieved communities of the world back to work,» we make the mistaken assumption that just getting people to produce and consume more commodities is the answer to the problems we are facing during this horrific economic crisis.

Looking forward, the 2010 — 11 and 2011 — 12 school years pack a one - two punch, with school district leaders facing the end of ARRA dollars and answering tough questions about programs and personnel that have been (and will be) cut, while trying to figure out what, if any, economic recovery is in store at the state and local levels.

While there is an emerging consensus that a broader range of skills are necessary to face economic, environmental, technological, political and social challenges of our time, the question of how specifically to develop such skills has received less attention.

They discuss immigration and the economic choices facing black communities, particularly in the inner city, and lend themselves to ethical debates (questions of what characters believe and how that influences their actions) and issues surrounding racism's depiction in policy and media.

I think the real question facing Single Player games going forward - particularly in the difficult economic climate of today - is how to reduce the cost of getting the game world into the hands of players, and increase the amount of high - profit - margin content we release post-launch into these stable, proven platforms.

Questions like this are at the heart of Aesthetica's Future Now Symposium, which will take a broad view of the state of today's arts ecosystem and the social and economic challenges it faces, bringing together the organisations and practitioners at the forefront of shaping art's response to a fast - changing world.

The participating artists prompt a dialog on questions that, in face of the current radical economic, social and political changes, are more relevant that ever.

Reacting to radical changes taking place internationally in the late»80s and early»90s, these shows — «In Transit,» «The Final Frontier,» and «Trade Routes» — posed questions about globalization's social, economic, cultural, and intellectual exchanges, and grappled with issues as wide - reaching as neoliberal capitalism and as specific as the situations facing individual cities.

Moderator: John Nothdurft Bob Williams, Sen. Phil Berger, Daniel Pilla As more states see their revenues begin to recover, many are faced with the question of whether to restore spending cuts or cut taxes to help encourage continued economic growth.

IPCC can, however, distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive questions that arise in relevant socio - economic literature about climate policy - making, identify important ethical and justice issues that arise in this literature, where there is a consensus on ethics and justice issues in the relevant literature describe the consensus position, where there is no consensus on ethical and justice issues describe the range of reasonable views on these issues, and identify hard and soft law legal principles relevant to how governments should resolve ethical and justice issues that must be faced by policy - makers.

The forth panel covers the question of whether to restore spending cuts or cut taxes to help encourage continued economic growth and how states are facing these budget and tax issues.

In the latter half of the twentieth century, when coal was facing strong economic competition from oil and gas, such questions could be easily ignored.

So, in these challenging economic times, the question law firms increasingly face is not whether they will do something with their non-core activities — it's what they will do with them.

One survey question struck me: «Other than economic trends (and professional associations) what other important issues are facing the real estate profession in Canada?»