Sentences with phrase «economic role it has played»

The displays also take a provocative look at cotton's «dirty secrets» - at its human and environmental impact - and at the pivotal political and economic role it has played in establishing national independence from colonial rule.

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We should be asking what role public policy is playing in this phenomenon and whether a different set of policies would lead to a different distribution of economic gains.

Yet the anti-export sentiment is especially problematic, some economic experts argue, because exports have played a leading role in the economic recovery.

Regional exchange rates have become more flexible in recent years, and have played a greater role as shock absorber,» AMRO said in its flagship ASEAN +3 Regional Economic Outlook 2018 report.

The Times notes that, at various junctures, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, national economic advisor Gary Cohn, and national security adviser Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster have all staked claims to playing the coordinating role on China.

«Hillary believes the government has an important role to play in laying a foundation for broad - based innovation and economic growth — by reducing regulatory barriers to entry, promoting healthy competition, and keeping the internet free and open,» the statement read.

The trend worries economists because new businesses play a vital role in creating jobs, improving productivity and spurring economic growth; some researchers believe the decline in entrepreneurship, and in other measures of economic dynamism such as labor mobility, could be part of the reason the U.S. has experienced such a slow bounceback from the past two recessions.

The New York Fed also reported that the regional housing sector had a less consequential effect on regional economic conditions than in other parts of the nation where housing played a more significant role in dampening economic activity.

Several risks played an important role in these discussions; I will now discuss four of the most important and consider how well the economic data have supported those judgments since April.

Together these measures have played a significant role in boosting overall United States - Jordanian economic ties.

The role these companies have played is critical — to our culture, our economic vitality, and to the next generation of innovators.

What also was expected universally fifty years ago — indeed, until about 1980 — was that governments would play an increasingly important economic role, not only as forward planners but as direct investors in infrastructure.

Russia's economic woes, along with the steep decline of the Russian ruble, have played a major role in stalling the EEU's development.

Not only do the peoples of India, China, Turkey and other countries have a strong cultural affinity to gold — an obsession that will only intensify as incomes rise — but the metal still plays a vital role as a portfolio diversifier in times of economic and political uncertainty.

Moreover, Qubad Talabani - since 2014 — has been the Deputy Prime Minister, and he is also believed to play a key role in KRG - U.S. political and economic relations.

China's greatest challenge is to remain free of these financial and real estate dynamics that have plunged the Western and post-Soviet economies into debt and created a rentier over-class receiving income simply for ownership privileges, not for playing a productive economic role.

In the key Lavigne vs. OPSEU decision of 1991, Justice Gérard La Forest explained that the unionization model in Canada ensures that unions have «both the resources and the mandate necessary to enable them to play a role in shaping the political, economic and social context within which particular collective agreements and labour relations disputes will be negotiated and resolved.»

But in India it has played a minor role in the overall economic development of the country.

And agriculture is not only an economic function but also has an ecological and a social role to play.

Even if there were nothing else to criticize about economic theory, Buddhists and Christians would have to oppose the role that economic thought plays in our world today.

If we study the history of economic theory, we can see that thought has played a very large role.

Partly it has been a function of imitation, beginning in the nineteenth century with Bismarck's social welfare programs in Germany, and partly it has been prompted by international economic competition, again starting in the nineteenth century, with national governments playing an increasing role in regulating and promoting all forms of economic activity.

By breaking down the ethical disapproval of traditional capitalism and actively encouraging a methodical approach to economic affairs, Weber argued that proponents of the Protestant work ethic had played a critical role in shaping the economic and social history of Western Europe.

The economic power of the West played a major role in undermining the Soviet Empire, so that now the danger of major international conflict has drastically receded.

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.

According to a report from Bourscheidt's Alliance that is meant to encourage policy makers to help the arts industry play a role in rebuilding New York City's economy, nonprofit cultural organizations in the city had an economic impact of $ 5.8 billion in 2005 and generated more than 40,000 jobs and $ 2.2 billion in wages.

«CIHT has been calling for investment in infrastructure and are pleased that the government is acknowledging the role that this will play in the UK's economic recovery and we will continue to call for a balanced long - term investment programme.»

The lawyer and human right activist explained that SGBV aside physical effect also had economic, psychological and emotional implications and stressed the need for the press to recognise their role in the campaign and play it effectively.

What role this has played in shaping the current independence debate is hard to say, but it seems certain that the diaspora will continue to affect the social and economic development of Scotland, regardless of whether it chooses to vote for independence or to continue to be part of the United Kingdom.

The state has a vital role to play in both ensuring that all companies that operate under its jurisdiction meet their social obligations (by, for example, taxing them on all revenue generated within a territory), while at the same time promoting forms of corporate governance that cement company independence as a means of protecting against the abuse of economic power.

While many would be inclined to argue that such economic considerations are driving public opinion, Chris Prosser suggests that personality plays a significant role.

It is quite likely that political factors, for example the influence of powerful economic actors on legislative bodies, played a role in causing, or exacerbating, this crisis, as Daron Acemoglou, for example, has recently argued.

Like all FPI staff, the right candidate for this position will have a commitment to reversing the extraordinary racial and economic disparities in wages, income, and opportunity in our communities, and will have a desire to focus on the role state and local governments can play in improving conditions for all New Yorkers.

Ciminelli is among the upstate developers who has been charged in the federal case, whose company has played a prominent role in the Buffalo Billion economic development program.

While the SAFE Act may have played a role, she says it was the state's economic policies that ultimately drove Remington to drop the workers.

Nigeria has played a prominent role at the forum aimed at forging international partnerships for Africa's transformation and prosperity through economic growth, agriculture and social stability.

Howe had represented a number of companies with business before the Buffalo Billion and was listed as a lobbyist for SUNY Poly, which plays a key role in distributing economic development spending.

Small and medium sized businesses have an essential role to play in driving national growth and economic recovery.

Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice.

Issel may be promising not to use (or failing to «envision») public money for acquiring an NBA team, but Kentucky economic development secretary Terry Gill seems to have a better imagination, telling the Courier Journal: «I think the state and local government, we certainly have a role to play but we should not be burdened with too much of that risk.»

The LLC loophole has played a key role in the federal corruption trials of both former leaders of the legislature, and may be a factor in the ongoing federal probe of the governor's economic development projects.

Responding, Senator Ajimobi said Lagos, as the economic capital and most viable State in Nigeria, has a pivotal role to play in the economic development and sustainability of the south west, and that he was happy that the State is being governed by Governor Ambode, who he said has the temperament to play such role.

All the productive sectors are referred to as economic sector, and they will be a major bloc as a subcommittee of parliament, and they coordinate the activities of the economic sectors of his cabinet, as it may be, and he wanted me to bring my experience as a [former] minister of finance, as somebody who has done a similar job in Uganda, as somebody who has done a similar job in Liberia, to bear on his government; so I'm playing a coordinated role for the economic sector as it were.»

Mr. Harris, a former state trooper, denied that he had played any role or knew of any such actions, saying the incoming Paterson administration was focused on the economic crisis.

Replogle said better access to public transport would also foster economic opportunities, providing the poor with better access to employment and services - and the private sector had an important role to play.

Given the critical role livestock play in Mongolia, transmission of tick - borne diseases can have very real health and economic implications for livestock and the herders that tend to them.

Looking to China, Cohen said, «it's hard to argue that economic development there, in which coal has certainly played a role, hasn't had significant beneficial effects on poverty reduction and population health.

Mathematical and economic analyses have shown that both central government and the private sector have an important role to play in flood protection: «Companies naturally want to reduce their own risks.

Through our involvement with Operation HOPE, we have been able to play an even larger role in helping people improve their economic situations.»

Given the way Black Panther embraces diversity, and given how heavily the Wakandan culture itself plays a role, it would be almost negligent for the film to not address current issues of race and economic disparity in some fashion.