Sentences with phrase «economic terms even»

This is all costly in bare economic terms even without factoring in the personal cost to the people who have been relocated from their homes.

The prioritization was carried out through weighted scoring taking into account: the ability of the measure to decrease climate change impacts; the urgency for implementing a measure in order to gain maximum benefit; «no regret» strategies that can be justified in economic terms even without climate change; positive secondary effects; and possible climate change mitigation co-benefits.

Not exact matches

Raise interest rates in the U.S. and you could kill the recovery and exacerbate the problem of long - term unemployment, with lasting effects of labour productivity, economic growth and, yes, even government revenues.

People are going to college and don't even understand basic economic terms.

«Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy rates and longer - term rates in the most affected countries (like the U.S.) were never reduced to such low levels,» wrote William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee at the OECD in Paris, in a recent paper.

University of Alberta business professor Andrew Leach says that even absent new pipelines, a long - term differential greater than the cost of moving barrels by rail «doesn't make economic sense.»

Fortune: But even more than just the principle at stake, you would argue that it makes long term economic sense — even for a media entity that doesn't rely on subscription revenue like the New York Times?

Longer term, emerging markets are the drivers of global economic growth and investors would do well to have some exposure, even if it comes with higher volatility.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

The historical precedents indicate that however effectively the reforms are designed and implemented, if China's economic adjustment is excessively costly or economically or socially disruptive, they won't even matter in the long term.

Furthermore... It Is Their Only Legitimate Medium Term Option... As Global Sovereign Debt Stacks Have Already Grown Above The Levels That Can Be Sustained By Even The Most Optimistic Economic Growth Forecasts.

The budget does not even provide a projection of Canada's long - term potential economic growth and the key determinants underlying it - productivity growth and labour force growth.

If the US contracts its deficit with most of the rest of the world in terms of economic size, it's not mathematically feasible to have someone else pick up the slack to even hold the deficit stable.

In one illustrative example from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), at best one - quarter of the cost of a broad - based cut in individual rates could be offset by economic growth over a decade, and even that assumes future tax increases will ultimately be enacted to stabilize the long - term fiscal picture.

The yield curve has also steepened and may steepen even more, as the driver for short - term rates are influenced by Fed fund moves, while economic growth and the inflation outlook are influencing longer - term rates.

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

Even if China's debt and real estate bubbles don't pop, resulting in a global recession, slowing economic growth from China could have a detrimental effect on long - term energy prices and result in prolonged weakness in the entire energy sector, including oil services suppliers such as U.S. Silica.

Still, the estimates of prospective 10 - year S&P 500 returns below stick with a 6.3 % long - term economic growth assumption, because I want to emphasize that prospective market returns are dismal even on optimistic economic assumptions.

On the other hand, even in the United States the issue was formulated not in terms of national glory but in terms of competing economic systems.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

All their successful efforts to stimulate economic activity did not benefit people even in narrowly economic terms.

Even if it could be shown that economic or general social conditions in a given society have prompted a desire for deliverance, the ideas of redemption that may be included in a religious message are not invalidated by an inquiry into their social «background,» provided we do not conceive of the relation in deterministic terms but consider conditions as a framework which may include a variety of contents.

Realistic measures of human well being show that our vaunted economic progress is not increasing anything worth increasing, even in strictly economic terms.

Even if it lasts only three weeks, this war could be a terrible disaster in moral, political and economic terms.

First, the conventional wisdom on the role of economic factors in elections is overstated; even in a year when such short - term factors were particularly strong, they operated within the context of long - term cultural alignments.

In our corporate consumerist American culture which celebrates hedonistic materialism and where aggression and a lack of ethics often results in short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job loss.

«But the short - term economic advantages of robusta are overshadowed by long - term costs — for growers, drinkers, even the Big Four themselves.

While we on the matter... what a total farce on contract renewal, even the spuds seem to have got that sorted out — renewing long before time, and not paying out hefty wages either — I believe Kane is their top earner on # 125k, and for someone with an economic degree, how does Wenger not understand that having someone with a long contract makes not only financial sense, but sense in terms of the teams stability as well?

A Brexit vote and the fear of even a short - term economic hit could see a punishing electorate banish the Tories back to the wilderness they inhabited for the decade after 1997.

This indicates that women are a force to reckon with even in economic terms Not only did Dr. Nkrumah recognize the enormous role of African women in the struggle for freedom and African Unity, but also recognized the power of women in negotiations and decision - making.

The chancellor's move, which will cut # 3bn a year from the welfare budget, is designed to cement the Conservatives» reputation as the party willing to take tough long - term economic decisions, even at the cost of hitting more than 5 million families characterised as working poor.

Cameron does not have to worry about the UK's long - term economic future even if there is a Brexit, believes Capital

An even higher minimum wage, cancelling cuts to inheritance tax or to income tax for the top fifteen per cent of earners all may make wider political and longer term economic sense.

Even with WTO terms (the so called «hard Brexit»), the economic costs or tariffs are not that great and would be discounted before the exit day by revaluation of the currency.

Does it return Ghana to paths of economic prosperity next year, in the medium term or even the long future?

In terms of economic policy, speaking on BBC's Breakfast yesterday morning Clegg said he was adamant that his party would «stay the course», thus indicating that even relatively minor changes in economic legislation may not be forthcoming in the next 12 months either.

The extent of the discomfort with the government's economic plans was laid bare even further when a group of Liberal Democrat councillors wrote a letter criticising the spending cuts programme in the strongest possible terms.

If she treats this as a short - term electoral exercise, she will win headlines and plaudits and maybe even a snap election victory, but she will leave Britain's growing political, social and economic vacuum untouched.

«Adding an arbitrary expiration for reasons unrelated to the special permit process or requirements would not only set a dangerous and questionable precedent, but would also hinder our ability to make MSG and New York City the long - term home of even more world - class events, and would harm a business that has served as a significant economic driver for the City for generations.»

It's an even stranger «economic security» that rests on short - term, temporary appointments.

Although not specifically a biology book it is something that all biology students, even all science students, should dip into, especially the first contribution by Lester Brown that describes the costs of environmental degradation in economic terms and the pressing need to develop environmentally sustainable economics.

Even so, it is the nature of most governments to want to see short - term economic results to justify investment, and, especially in the west, to justify not taking an axe to research.

Even the teachers unions have been in the grip of neoliberal education policies, although for years I have advocated a social movement unionism — that is dedicated to engage beyond workplace concerns, but also in terms of wider political struggle for social and economic justice, for human rights, and for participatory and direct democracy.

It goes back to the basic economic problem and even though this is not a heavy economics lesson in terms of learning graphs and lots of detail, for me this is one of the most fundamental issues that economist face..

Situations that would normally lead to a lease being classified as a finance lease include the following: the lease transfers ownership of the asset to the lessee by the end of the lease term; the lessee has the option to purchase the asset at a price which is expected to be sufficiently lower than fair value at the date the option becomes exercisable and that, at the inception of the lease, it is reasonably certain that the option will be exercised; the lease term is for the major part of the economic life of the asset, even if title is not transferred; at the inception of the lease, the present value of the minimum lease payments amounts to at least substantially all of the fair value of the leased asset, and; the lease assets are of a specialised nature such that only the lessee can use them without major modifications being made.

This necessary opinion leadership is not yet sufficiently energized for this next phase of education reform, but I submit that the current state of and prognosis for our public education system represents a threat even more onerous to our economic and cultural future and it is one that is worthy of a similar long - term commitment to overcome.

This necessary opinion leadership is not yet sufficiently energized for this next phase of education reform, but the current state of and prognosis for our public education system represents a threat even more onerous to our economic and cultural future and it is one that is worthy of a similar long - term commitment to overcome.

The necessary opinion leadership is not yet sufficiently energized for this new phase of education reform, but the prognosis for our public education system represents a threat even more onerous to our economic and cultural future and it is one that is worthy of a similar long - term commitment to overcome.

The «scariness» over home loans was the widespread realization that the rules of the game had been changed permanently, by the combination of an economic downturn plus national (or even international) financial policies designed to enforce low inflation rates - with the consequence that «being underwater» had been changed from a short term problem to a long - term one.

Economic theory assumed investors, on average, would make good, even optimal decisions in terms of maximizing their wealth: Real money was at stake, so people would do the thing that earned them the most.