Sentences with phrase «economic reforms so»

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP)-- European creditors urged the Greek government Friday to speed up the implementation of a series of economic reforms so it can get its hands on the next batch of bailout cash it is due before the end of October.

Not exact matches

To hear the McConnell camp tell it, victory would give the senator the chance to forge a new Republican vision — to finally offer those much - promised legislative proposals for economic growth and reform that the party has so far been unwilling or unable to unite around.

What has made Italy's economic recovery so slow is a fractured political scene that's so busy trying to reform itself, the economy appears to have been put on the backburner.

Well, he's going to unveil his total tax - reform plan on Thursday, and this is a component of that, so it will be included in his overall budget and economic vision.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

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.

In order to fulfill the campaign promise of using growth to reduce the deficit, any tax reform plan should be at least revenue neutral before accounting for economic growth, so all the gains from growth can be devoted to deficit reduction.

One problem is that lobbyists for the vested interests are so powerful that they probably can get Congress to water down any real so much that the economic situation will to keep on getting worse and worse before the needed reforms can be enacted.

Reform is needed so community banks can best serve their local communities, fully utilize new technologies and partnerships, continue to improve the customer experience, create jobs, and support economic growth and opportunity into the future.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

The atmosphere was tense as growing numbers of Salvadorans defied the subtle and not so subtle repression and took to the streets demanding deeper economic reforms, authentic democracy, and an end to the U.S - backed war.

It is because the contemporary American family was the goal and product of reform that it was idealized, and that it was so long and so confidently invoked as a common value, as a thing deserving and also requiring political and economic protection.

So, far from a Northern Powerhouse he offers the north disproportionate cuts and a business rates reform that hits areas facing economic disasters like Teesside's this month hardest of all.

The whole campaign theme is constructed around an economic argument that since the crash the Conservatives have failed to reform the economy so that it tackles inequality and delivers for working people.

So Nick Clegg and David Cameron have had a conversation in which they've agreed to «explore further proposals for a programme of economic... reform».

Guido Fawkes was amongst the first to suggest that this might be the most plausible outcome — the social and economic liberalism in both parties (the Cameroons and Orange Bookers) could be made to match (with some limits on Lib Dem tax policy recommendations), so the difficulties would be Europe (where they are utterly divergent), and Cameron's reluctance to negotiate on Trident renewal, criminal justice and sentencing, and electoral reform (the Tories are squarely in favour of First Past The Post).

«Obviously the budget comes first, so there's more emphasis on the economic issues up front,» said Cuomo, who continues to consider the Moreland Commission recommendations for reform a top tier priority.

Much has already been written about the different options for selecting citizens to serve on a convention so that it is representative of all parts of the UK, and of gender, age, socio - economic background, ethnic minorities, disabled people etc (see Alan Renwick's pamphlet and the Electoral Reform Society evidence).

DeFrancisco said another item he would like to see pass is procurement reform so the state comptroller can review the contracts of the state's economic development projects before they are signed.

«That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more,» Peralta said in the statement.

That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more.

«Regulatory reforms, technology, finance and operational improvements can help entrepreneurs scale up, so that cleaner rickshaws meet their full environmental and economic potential,» says Embarq's Akshay Mani, the report's lead author.

I left St. Petersburg feeling that so much more economic reform was still possible in that glorious city and throughout Russia.

So the best strategy is to wait for economic conditions to improve and try to put together a deal that has more money and real reform.

In doing so, they are enabling the opposite of needed reform and increasing, not lowering, the odds of the economic tail risk they are trying to avoid.»

Yet the economic advantages of a carbon tax are so manifest that it is still possible, once the fiscal cliff negotiations are finished and talks turn to a truly transformative tax reform deal, that leaders in Congress will begin to reconsider it, especially it if is marketed on economic grounds.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

Green Growth and The Economics of Biomimicry For those who believe that economic growth and ecological sustainability are not mutually exclusive, there is an unprecedented challenge of how to reform our extractive economy so that it becomes a nurturing one.

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»

The so - called Michigan «malpractice tort reform» of 1994 gave health care providers de facto economic immunity.

So I'm not sure where the law students will find the economic leverage to implement the reforms that they propose.

«The president's goal in tax reform was to create a bill that gives middle - income families a big tax cut and stimulates economic growth so they can continue to feel that relief for years to come,» Walters said in an emailed statement.