Sentences with phrase «economic record since»

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's economic record since taking office in 2006 is at the centre of debate in the current federal election campaign.

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Despite the recent softness in data — the Citi economic surprise index for the eurozone is now at its lowest since June 2012 — markets remain stubbornly bullish on the euro with overall bets still near record highs as longer - term expectations remain optimistic.

In Italy, however, despite facing the same problem of a declining population — in 2014, only 509,000 live births were recorded, the lowest number since the unification of Italy in 1861, according to the country's statistics agency, ISTAT — the broader economic backdrop is the source of reluctance.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

«However, it is not only for economic reasons that I am delighted to welcome president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to London next week... since 1998 he has won ten elections in eight years - an unprecedented record of electoral success in any country.»

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

Despite predictions of immediate financial and economic danger since the referendum we have seen consumer confidence remain high, record numbers of jobs and economic growth that has has exceeded all expectations.

But the Tories are also narrowly ahead of Labour on education and, since January when these poll data were recorded, Labour has slipped further over its economic record.

Empire State Development, the state's leading economic development agency, has spent more than $ 75,000 promoting its tweets since October, records obtained under a state Freedom of Information Law request show.

That 20 - point advantage to the Tories is the widest gap that ICM has recorded on economic competence since December 2011, when — with memories of the Brown administration recent, and with Osborne's «omnishambles» 2012 budget still in the future — the Conservative lead on this score briefly hit 21 points.

ISC chairman Barnaby Lenon said: «It is remarkable that, although we are only at the start of an economic recovery, the number of pupils at UK independent schools is at the highest levels since records began in 1974.

Ever since the economic meltdown of the mid-2000s, and the credit crunch that followed thereafter, folks without picture - perfect credit and a spotless record of repayment have had a bit of a tough time getting their hands on loans and quick capital.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

This rate has stood at a near record low of 1.00 % since September of 2010 in an effort to boost economic growth.

The dual - brand hotel enters a market that saw its strongest year since 2008 as the city reported an estimated $ 300 million economic impact by overnight visitors in the last recorded year.

Exhibition curator Jens Hoffman, of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, revisited Stryker's approach to brief the contemporary photographers charged with recording the United States as the country struggled to emerge from its most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Bouwer and Botzen (2011) demonstrated that other normalized records of total economic and insured losses for the same series of hurricanes exhibit no significant trends in losses since 1900.»]-RSB-

Global carbon emissions stopped growing — The amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere worldwide has stopped increasing without an economic recession for the first time since records started being kept.

According to CEC numbers for 2017, California set a new annual record for foreign crude oil imports, and the state's refineries processed the second highest total sum of crude oil since the 2008 economic crisis.

Economic Slump Fuels Resume Company's Growth; Benefits Workforce NORTHBOROUGH, Mass, February 25, 2008 — Pongo Resume, the premier full - service online resume - building resource that provides a suite of tools to help job seekers market and manage their career lifecycle, today announced the company has experienced record - breaking revenue growth since its inception in 2004.

Economic hardship factors were recorded at each assessment, from parental report of those factors experienced by the family since the last assessment.

Now, however, FHA is in its strongest financial condition since it was created in 1934, with a record economic value of $ 16.6 billion in its insurance fund — an increase of $ 5.3 billion over 1998.

According to a new Pew Research Center report of census data, a record 64 million Americans, accounting for some 20 percent of the total U.S. population, lived in multi-generational family households in 2016, representing a three - decade continuous progression in this type of household formation — despite government propaganda that indicates economic improvements since the Great Recession.»