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A move to directly target Venezuela's oil industry would be a huge blow to Maduro's socialist administration, which is depending almost entirely on crude sales to try and decelerate a deepening economic crisis.

Meanwhile, BMO Capital Markets» chief economist Doug Porter noted Facebook's estimate of its economic impact in Canada — $ 5 billion and 82,000 new jobs — would mean it contributes between 0.2 and 0.3 per cent of GDP, which is more than retailer Target ever accounted for.

Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.

The threshold, target, and maximum percentage business line goals shown for the named executives listed in the table above were derived using certain assumptions for 2008 with respect to the general economic, interest rate, credit, and regulatory environment in which we operate and certain assumptions as to the outlook for the businesses each of them managed.

In that regard, it is worth noting that the three major economic areas, none of which have an explicit inflation - targeting framework have suffered at least as large an economic dislocation as the inflation - targeting countries, and in the case of Japan, considerably larger.

And it is quite likely that this change occurs in reaction to the current economic data flow, which reveals core inflation to be trending upward, nearing the Fed's target of 2 %.

«Amidst the economic turmoil in 2009, SCB was able to close the year with a healthy and above - target profit, which strongly bears out the bank's right strategic direction to become the «premier universal bank in Thailand,» plus the bank's resilience in adapting to a very challenging economic environment, which resulted in the solid performance,» says Vichit Suraphongchai, chairman of Siam Commercial Bank.

The recently published minute of the Fed's meeting last month showed some members of the policy committee have argued for raising interest rates more quickly in coming months because of strong economic growth, a robust job market and rising inflation, which last month exceeded the Fed's target of 2 percent.

The White House, which has called China an «economic enemy,» wants to target the advanced industries Beijing has vowed to build up as part of its «Made in China 2025» plan.

The latest data showed that Japan's core CPI rose 1.0 % y / y in February, which is slow to respond to a sustained economic growth and still far from the BOJ's 2 % target.

«These sanctions target key entities involved in Iran's ballistic missile program, which the Iranian regime prioritizes over the economic well - being of the Iranian people,» said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Overfishing is the target of the fascinating and disturbing film Sea the Truth, which looks at the «economic monster on the run»: our insatiable appetite for fish.

Champions 12.3, a coalition of 30 CEOs, government ministers, executives of research institutions, farmer organisations and civil society groups, was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos and aims to accelerate progress toward meeting target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which seeks to halve per capita food waste by 2030.

A clear, politically feasible target of one million affordable homes within the lifetime of a single parliament (a third of which would be homes for families) would capture the imagination of the electorate, and project a clear sense of Labour's post-crisis economic and social priorities.

In the longer term well targeted spending on health, education and infrastructure will have long terms economic benefits in terms of productivity which will make existing businesses more effective and attract new investment.

Finally, embargoes are put into place which curtail exports to the targeted country to harm their quality of life and economic efficiency and / or block imports from the country, preventing them from making money from international trade.

After the child care dust - up, the Assembly Democrats held an oversight hearing on the governor's economic development polices, which are the target of a federal investigation.

In a report on UK economic performance which could prove embarrassing for the chancellor, the organisation warned Osborne would miss his target for national debt to fall as a percentage of GDP by 2015 - 16.

In December 2015, Central New York was awarded $ 500 million in state economic development assistance, $ 25 million of which was targeted at pursuing initiatives that grow out of Consensus» work.

On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!

So the Club for Growth — an advocacy group focused on conservative economic policy and which supports a full repeal of ObamaCare — announced a $ 1 million ad campaign targeting 10 House Republicans to prod them to support the health care plan.

And then there's Cuomo's economic platform — which, by the way, the W.F.P. signed onto in 2010 when it was begging Cuomo to endorse it — of a property - tax cap, reducing pensions for new public workers and cutting taxes, including some measures targeted at major banks and people with million - dollar estates.

* Why has the Government failed to meet it's deficit reduction targets throughout the parliament & why is the economy not generating jobs - even after all these cuts - in which case Labour will take office because Cons will lose the economic competency test.

McCoy's hope is that this research will help inform policymakers of the potential economic and health consequences of wildfires, the magnitude of this type of disaster, and the mechanism behind wildfires — all of which enable people to better target the problem.

All other major players who have proposed targets have talked about total emissions, not intensity, which indexes emissions relative to economic growth.

This can translate into reduced catches for fishers targeting reef fish species, which in turn leads to impacts on food supply and associated economic activities.

For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

Moreover, we are 15 years into the data - driven school - reform movement, which is based on the idea that racial - and economic - achievement gaps are largely caused by the «benign racism of low expectations,» and that the solution is to hold individual educators accountable for meeting discrete, quantifiable targets.

, it began to issue state waivers that focused school improvement status on a Targeted Achievement Gap Group (TAGG) which was comprised of (a) students at risk due to economic disadvantage; (b) English Language Learners (ELLs); and — once again (c) Students with Disabilities (SWD).

Lebouthillier has indicated Canada will work with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which uses the tax gap measure to help develop policies that target evaders.

Today's funding trends such as Creative Place - making, made possible through partnership enterprises among foundation, governmental, and financial - sector support, such as ArtPlace America, are concentrated on giving art and artists opportunities in diverse communities yet also require artists and arts organizations to think through an entrepreneurial frame by integrating their initiatives into their community's economic development and community revitalization strategies and having the potential to attract additional private and public support of the community.3 Is this a worthy challenge of contemporary arts insularity or does it discount subversive and against - the - grain art production, made by and for art communities, including that which is made within and by these same diverse communities that are being targeted by new funding initiatives as in need of help in the form of artistic interventions?

But it has become clear that efforts to set binding hard targets when dealing with greenhouse gases — which remain deeply linked to economic activity — were counterproductive and probably delayed progress, as a number of analysts had warned (read the Hartwell Paper for one such take).

That hoary old one, which should probably be called «Old Shep» about «warmists» wanting «to preserve existing arrangements of economic advantage of developed nations by keeping people of developing nations poor and without access to low cost energy» has been repeatedly euthanased by those of your side who insist that mitigation is a plot driven by guilt - ridden first - world liberals who want to transfer industry and thus wealth from the first world to the third and who accordingly want to give China, India and Brazil a free pass on emissions targets.

So yes, if they're moving in the direction of regulating CO2, which is the implication everyone is drawing from the permit denial, then they should probably target sources of output where there is lower economic benefit per unit of output.

This well - known target, which supposedly represents the «safe» limit of climate change, has always been a highly political choice that has more to do with minimizing economic disruption than with protecting the greatest number of people.

The report, which covers the 2011 - 2012 period, said faster - than - expected economic growth was to blame for China's failure to meet environmental targets ranging from energy [continue reading...]

He has rejected calls to resign, arguing that he is being targeted by countries and companies reluctant to embrace greener technology for economic reasons, and insisting that money he earns as a consultant goes straight back into a research institute which he heads.

Although economic analyses can provide policy - makers with valuable information such as which technologies will achieve ethically determined goals at lowest cost, thereby providing criteria for making remedies cost - effective, there are serious ethical problems with cost - benefit analyses used prescriptively to set emissions reductions targets.

For instance, other proposed ghg allocation formula try and remedy economic injustice among nations, issues which are worthy of international attention yet greatly complicate the ethical issues which need to be considered in setting ghg targets.

By supporting economic development in a targeted way, our climate protection can help to fight corruption and to build strong institutions, which is the essence of No 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals.

President SBY touted his 7/26 initiative, which targets 7 percent annual economic growth and a 26 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 relative to business - as - usual.

Garnaut's report showed that if we set a target of 550 ppm economic growth will be slowed by a mere 0.1 per cent, which means we would have to wait until 2042, an extra two years, before our economy doubled in size.

The State have sought to fight and limit economic crimes by enacting a number of laws targeting a number of unlawful actions which have increased and have had dangerous impact on the Qatari society.

The growing economic toll of the trolls, which came to target everyone from big tech companies to small coffee shops, eventually led to calls for Congress to pass laws to stop them.

Roose: Is the basic economic model of Facebook, in which users provide data that Facebook uses to help advertisers and developers to better target potential customers and users — do you feel like that works, given what we now know about the risks?

This move ushered in by the country's central bank is primarily targeted at clipping the wings of the widely growing cryptocurreny market which is posing considerable threat to China's economic controls and tight currency.

The announcement is notable given that on Tuesday, the government of Venezuela — which, like Iran, is the target of U.S financial and economic sanctions — launched its own cryptocurrency, dubbed the petro.

And we are, through the implementation, systematically, of special programs and policy initiatives, seeking to improve economic independence for our indigenous peoples to overcome inequalities which we know continue to exist in some areas, and we have targeted those areas of greatest need, particularly health, education, housing, employment, and economic development opportunities as areas in which we can move forward.

Gore would use «targeted tax cuts and incentives» to spur household and commercial investment, but only within the context of his economic priority, which is paying down the national debt, which he says «gives us the opportunity to keep interest rates low and our prosperity going.»