Sentences with phrase «economic resources like»

And nations primarily using this process are western nations with huge economic resources like U.S. and it could have devastating consequences as seen in multiple cases such as Cuba or North Korea and even Russia.

Not exact matches

Over the coming decades, Smith expects an influx of immigrants into the north, drawn by a milder climate and jobs in the resource sector, helping to deliver «an unprecedented economic jolt» to countries like Canada, Russia and Scandinavian nations.

WDN marshals resources for a number of issues — like reproductive justice, racial equity, and economic opportunity — but the cause closest to Hall's heart is civic equality for women.

A slowdown in China's economic growth is exacting a heavy toll on resource - based economies like Canada's.

In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

This was the first application for a resource consent under the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act, Public Act 2012 No 72 (the EEZ Act) and, like the Northern Gateway project, it promised economic gains but only in exchange for uncertain and potentially significant environmentaEconomic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act, Public Act 2012 No 72 (the EEZ Act) and, like the Northern Gateway project, it promised economic gains but only in exchange for uncertain and potentially significant environmentaeconomic gains but only in exchange for uncertain and potentially significant environmental risks.

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries and regions with an abundance of natural resources, specifically point - source non-renewable resources like minerals and fuels, tend to have less economic growth and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.

Many British Columbians recognize that the provincial government's economic strategy — narrowly focused on boosting resource - extraction industries like mining and LNG — puts all our eggs in one basket.

I mean, $ 1 billion seems like a lot of money, but it's nevertheless a finite resource earmarked to solve the region's economic problems.

Broadly speaking, Cuomo's upstate economic development strategy remains heavily weighted toward dubious business tax breaks, while his transportation policies still squander resources on stuff like a toll freeze for Thruway drivers.

«The Fulani man is a Nigerian he has rights like any other Nigerian he works freely to access legitimate economic resources of this country like land.

Ghana, President Akufo - Addo stated, has the opportunity to become a regional centre for light manufacturing for a market of some 350 million people in the ECOWAS Community, projected to reach 500 million by 2030, «by weaving together our numerous natural resources, like food produce, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy, to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa, generating full employment for our teeming youth.»

Since the 1950s, researchers have noticed, paradoxically, that countries with an abundance of natural resources, specifically non-renewable resources like minerals and fuels, tend to struggle to achieve economic growth, transparency and democratic rule.

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

Sadly, the dichotomy of haves and have - nots is not going away any time soon, but as long as we understand what this divide looks like and how it evolves and changes, we can better address the underlying causes and provide resources for all US citizens, regardless of ethnicity, geography or socio - economic status.

Confronted with challenges like changing economic needs, local historical perceptions, and teacher retention and financial resource issues, innovative district leaders in rural communities are taking an opportunity to plan for success.

The report expands on existing evidence linking parents» economic resources to children's school readiness by showing that, in addition to gaps in cognitive skills such as math and reading, gaps in noncognitive skills like persistence, self - control, and social skills exist between socioeconomically disadvantaged and advantaged children.

You will find info like the countries background, demographic info, economic info, Government, climate, resources and tons more.

The academy allows players to spend resources on economic or military boosts, like increases to the kingdom's overall building construction speed or upgrades to their army's attack power, as examples.

Finally, as an extension of the exhibition, Gabriel Kuri has published an artist book, which is a repertoire of images of various French brands of mineral water, photographed like commercial products, but with their bottles filled with a less than inviting yellowish liquid, a thinly disguised metaphor for the economic stakes hidden behind the commercialisation of our vital resources.

Raiji Kuroda introduces the problems that affect international curating in Japan which, like the West, possesses the resources, but is regarded as «not doing enough to promote culture to match its economic power in global society».

But as long as this human discord stays unchallenged --(by keeping capitalism, freedom of personal development, allowing juridical autonomy of corporations, consumerism, nationalism and regionalism, confiscation of communal resources by economic parties, juridical and political support for any of those above)-- humanity will have to face a truly horrific era the likes it has not seen before.

Western demand necessitates massive resources, from all over the world... and results in improved economic conditions for China, India and the like, which promotes «healthier» conditions, and contributes to more families for everyone.

The World Resources Institute has announced an initiative that it says will focus on business and finance models for sustainable, low - carbon economic growth in major markets like the U.S., China, Mexico, India and Brazil.

Distorting subsidies not only do damage economic now, they strangle any possibility of dealing logically with new challenges like resource depletion and global warming.

Whatever the scientific truth, which Dyson admits he isn't positive about, he doesn't think that the case for global warming is sufficient to curtail economic development or take resources away from more pressing problems like reducing poverty.

4) For nations (like USA) with large coal reserves, it makes economic sense to exploit these in a «clean» way; electrical power generation is an efficient use of this resource, which enables flue gas cleanup 5) Carbon taxes do nothing to change our planet's future climate (no tax ever did).

Putting together Queensland's future energy resource needs along with its already - propose infrastructure projects with the goals of environmental protection and greater economic efficiency yields an map like the one below.

Sure you can have people who position themselves to gain by taking advantage of forced regulations and the like, but those gains are not true economic growth, they only malinvest scarce resources that could have gone towards really making things and services of value to free people who choose to buy them.

«Wetland restoration provides a wealth of benefits including storm surge reduction, habitat preservation, carbon sequestration and recreation; as well as job creation, and economic development that are vital to Louisiana's sustainability and resilience,» states Michael Hecht, President & CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc. «By innovating creative financing solutions for coastal restoration, local companies like Tierra Resources are contributing to the growing hub of Emerging Environmental expertise that can be found in Greater New Orleans.»

And human population growth and economic expansion continue to demand new resources like energy and food, to claim new land and to cut natural landscapes into disconnected patchworks.

(I wonder if the Hubbert models could be generalized to the growth and decline in production of economic «resources» like Credit Default Swaps?

For a nation as rich in natural wealth and resources as Brazil, this transition of power is not important merely in terms of politics or global affairs, but perhaps for something much farther - reaching — like demonstrating to the world that social and economic progress and development needn't necessarily be in conflict with the preservation of the natural world.

Specifically, key parameters of the Human System, such as fertility, health, migration, economic inequality, unemployment, GDP per capita, resource use per capita, and emissions per capita, must depend on the dynamic variables of the Human — Earth coupled system.26 Not including these feedbacks would be like trying to make El Niño predictions using dynamic atmospheric models but with sea surface temperatures as an external input based on future projections independently produced (e.g., by the UN) without feedbacks.

When the economic downturn that hit the world like volcano in 2007/2008 put a plethora of talented professionals and executives in unemployment; and as companies were trying to leverage limited resources to do more with less, they had the advantage because it became an employers» market.

... the key factors are not the economic factors that many people might think would be most important - things like natural resource endowments or location or educational attainment.

«Like - kind exchanges help investors more efficiently allocate capital and resources with less borrowed money into new investments that drive economic activity in communities across the nation,» said NAR President Chris Polychron, executive broker with 1st Choice Realty in Hot Springs, Ark. «Any tax reform plan repealing like - kind exchanges would hurt investors and small businesses, increase financial leverage, weaken growth and the economy, and result in the loss of jobs.&raLike - kind exchanges help investors more efficiently allocate capital and resources with less borrowed money into new investments that drive economic activity in communities across the nation,» said NAR President Chris Polychron, executive broker with 1st Choice Realty in Hot Springs, Ark. «Any tax reform plan repealing like - kind exchanges would hurt investors and small businesses, increase financial leverage, weaken growth and the economy, and result in the loss of jobs.&ralike - kind exchanges would hurt investors and small businesses, increase financial leverage, weaken growth and the economy, and result in the loss of jobs.»