Sentences with phrase «economic reforms as»

Bank of America Merrill Lynch increased its target price for gold to $ 1,400 an ounce by early 2018, citing lower long - term interest rates and lack of progress by President Trump in delivering economic reforms as reasons.

Meanwhile in China, the ruling Communist Party has mostly abandoned its pledge for badly needed economic reforms as it seeks to maintain GDP growth of at least 6.5 %, creating fears about a debt time bomb waiting to explode.

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Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

«If we simply look at this as being deficit - neutral, you're never going to get the type of tax reform and tax reductions that you need to get to sustain 3 % economic growth,» Mulvaney told CNN.

The French government is to unveil final details of proposed labor reforms Thursday in what is seen as a key plank of President Emmanuel Macron's political and economic strategy for the next five years.

There are work opportunities available for those able to relocate, as a shift to supply - side economic reforms gains traction.

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Recruiting women into the work force is an important element of Saudi Arabia's economic reform, known as Vision 2030.

China president Xi Jinping is expected to present «the most authoritative interpretation» on China's 40 years of economic reforms and opening up as part of h's keynote speech, as well as announce the establishment of free - trade ports in Chinese provinces potentially including Hainan.

In terms of sector benefits, the firm upgraded industrials to overweight «as the sector benefits from solid capex trends, anticipated tax reform, and strong global economic growth.»

Modi's political success and promises of economic reform in spite of these bumps suggest that the new prime minister could function as a reformer in the American mold.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has touted it as an engine of economic reform, as well as a counter-weight to a rising China, which is not a TPP member.

But at the present stage of European integration, it may be difficult for any European government to put into legislation many of the sentiments espoused by nationalist parties, such as immigration reform, opposition to economic integration or the protection of what they see as their national culture.

Total industry jobs cuts, it says, «could run into the thousands as firms assess the impact on their bottom lines of sweeping regulatory reform and a balky economic recovery.»

In December, the country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman lifted the ban as part of a push for social and economic reform.

Global mergers and acquisitions had their strongest start ever in the first quarter of 2018, totaling $ 1.2 trillion in value, as U.S. tax reform and faster economic growth in Europe unleashed many companies» dealmaking instincts.

Saudi Arabia is preparing to pump $ 64 billion into its nascent entertainment industry as part of Vision 2030, the social and economic reform program spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

In contrast, China's state media described Xi's promises as simply the next stage in the country's economic restructuring and reform, albeit with the caveat that countries that «frequently launch trade wars against other countries» would not benefit from it.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's candidate to run the Treasury Department, has stated that comprehensive tax reform will be an immediate priority of Trump's administration, and that his focus as Treasury Secretary will be stimulating economic growth and creating jobs through tax reform.

Since the 1990s, the total taxation of the Swedish economy as a percentage of GDP has fallen more than 5 %, while labor market reforms, such as Denmark's cutting of unemployment benefits have helped Scandanavian economies rocket up measures of economic freedom.

As I noted in a recent speech, we face three major challenges that will determine how smooth this economic expansion turns out to be.5 First, we need regulatory reform that makes our financial system more stable and resilient.

The intensification of economic reform and innovation — including research and development of the central bank's digital currency — as well as «currency issuance» and «management methods.»

In fact I suspect the reason credit growth in the past year or two has not slowed nearly as sharply as it should, or as sharply as required by the economic analysis implicit in the Third Plenum reform proposals, is precisely because of the expected impact of meaningful credit constraint on GDP growth.

But there is something profoundly troubling about speculators in Puerto Rican debt reaping windfalls even as estimates of hurricane damage are revised up, tax reform legislation undermines Puerto Rican competitiveness, out - migration increases, political cleavages increase, layoffs from the public sector are set to increase and outside observers become more pessimistic about Puerto Rico's economic prospects.

In his speech, Yifei emphasized the importance of 2018 for China's long - term economic strategy, and discussed how the central bank's gold and silver department used problem - oriented, market - oriented, and livelihood - oriented «philosophy, style and methods» to promote reform and innovation in «key areas» of «currency bullion» as well as «currency gold and silver business.»

The best way for Ukraine to gain instant credibility as a serious voice for economic security through transparency and good governance is to put its own record up for scrutiny and implement expert recommendations on institutional reform at home.

This implies a slowdown in reforms that increase the private sector's productivity and economic share, together with a greater economic role for state - owned enterprises (and for state - owned banks in the allocation of credit and savings), as well as resource nationalism, trade protectionism, import - substitution industrialisation policies, and imposition of capital controls.

This monetarist theory has guided Russian economic reform (and its quick bankruptcy) under Yeltsin and his oligarchy, as well as Chile's privatization (and early bankruptcy) under Gen. Pinochet, and the austerity programs (and subsequent bankruptcies and national resource sell offs) imposed by the IMF on third world debtor countries.

To a large extent, the evolutionary shift reflected the absence of a catalytic crisis such as the radical program of economic reform that occurred in New Zealand following a prolonged period of poor economic outcomes, or in the case of the UK and Sweden, the sudden departure from the ERM.

Just as Ronald Reagan's landmark 1986 bipartisan tax reform increased simplicity, fairness and economic efficiency by broadening the tax base and reducing rates, today reform of the system has the potential to help American families and the economy.

While at the CEA, Dr. Piwowar also served as a staff economist for the Financial Regulatory Reform Working Group of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

He showed us outlines of his plans for reform and for organization of the economic team, and he asked us for continuing help as advisers.

And the Western banks are demanding that Latvia and the Baltics pay by squeezing out even more of an economic surplus with even more neoliberal «reforms» that threaten to drive even more of their labor abroad as their economies shrink and poverty spreads.

As expected, among the most enthusiastic cheerleaders of the reform are members of Trump's inner circle, including economic adviser Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who insists that the economic growth that results from the tax cuts will sufficiently self - finance the costs of the tax cut.

Until we see more pro-growth stimulus and structural reforms (especially in the labor market), we think QE will serve more as an economic stabilizer than a solution for Europe's chronically slow growth.

APEC's founding coincided with the sudden burst on the global scene of the Asian growth miracle, led by the «tigers» — Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore — and just as Deng Xioping issued his remarkable call for economic reform in China.

As a result of economic reforms, the Chinese have allowed the yuan, which floats in a very tight predetermined band vs USD, to loosen.

While, it's not clear whether the growth and deficit targets are achievable, it is clear that keeping the growth target the same as last year means the government is not interested in risking slower growth by advancing economic reforms more rapidly.

-LRB-...) One reading of this extraordinary outcome is that it was a protest against the painful spending cuts, tax increases, and economic reforms that Monti's government implemented as a precondition (albeit an unstated one) for European Central Bank support.

The kingdom has vowed to implement widespread economic reforms in a bid to reduce its huge dependency on oil, which accounts for as much as 90 % of government revenues.

With little by way of investment or industry, and with generally poor demographics, Greece's overall economic viability remains in doubt, as does its capacity to carry through the drastic reforms that its creditors have exacted as the price for a third bailout, especially as resistance hardens to the measures and onerous oversight insisted upon by the international lenders.

Crown Prince Mohammed has been pushing Saudi Arabia to sell 5 percent of Saudi Aramco as part of a broader economic reform program.

Leland describes the Chinese reform as a reversal of financial repression and this repression in the context of the Chinese economy is the oppression of consumers and households by state organizations through its economic systems.

We continue to favor cyclical sectors, like Consumer Discretionary, Financials, Industrials, and Health Care, as they are likely to benefit the most from policy reform and an increase in economic growth.

Long seen as an unwelcome environment for foreign investment and as a difficult country in which to do business, India's economic reforms and stellar growth are gradually becoming known in Canada.

Even as it enacts reforms to liberalize its financial markets and change its economic model, China must regain its competitiveness when it comes to exports.

A final ironic and unintended economic consequence of the Trump immigration reform plan could be a «brain drain,» as educated and potentially wealthy liberals look to escape a controversial Trump presidency, namely by moving to Canada.

It remained unclear to what extent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — seen as the de facto ruler of the country — was using the probe as a political tool to increase his control over the kingdom, while he continues to pursue a radical economic reform program.

As President Obamaâ $ ™ s former chief economic advisor, Austan Goolsbee, concluded in his study of six decades of U.S. tax reform:

In our view, newly elected President Moon Jae - in is likely to deliver fiscal stimulus, work to begin to reform the anti-competitive and opaque practices of powerful conglomerates known as «chaebols» and move to normalize economic ties with China.