Sentences with phrase «economic terms up»

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Shteir offers an account of the crime's evolution from Elizabethan London, where the term «shoplifting» first appeared, through the present day, when the economic downturn is being linked to a big spike in consumer thefts — up 8.8 % in the U.S. in the first year of the Great Recession.

As it happens, last month the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development reported that «Canada's key long - term challenge is to boost productivity growth» — so chalk that up as a win for the provocative Rubin as well.

Recent economic data point to some growth firming, inflation remains hard to find and long - term rates are up by barely 10 basis points (bps) from where they started the year, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.

The government analysis also concluded that the agreement would generate long - term economic gains for Canada totalling $ 4.2 billion, up from the $ 3.4 billion that was expected under the old TPP.

Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economicEconomic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economiceconomic future.

This term was coined by Leonard Lauder (chairman of Estee Lauder), who consistently found that during tough economic times, his lipstick sales went up.

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.

First, the method is agnostic as to what the money is spent on, so money spent cleaning up an oil spill looks remarkably similar to money spent building a new hospital or school in terms of economic impact.

More recently, however, Australian short - term yields moved up again in response to the run of economic news, particularly that on inflation (Graph 29).

Commodity prices in SDR terms remain on a firm upward trend, buoyed by the global economic recovery and the associated pick - up in demand for raw materials.

Crude oil prices edged up on Friday boosted by stronger than expected U.S. economic data though the longer - term outlook for energy markets remains weak due to a global oil supply glut and uncertainty over economic growth prospects in Asia.

The purpose of the Bernanke - Yellen monetary policy has been to lower longer - term rates and pump up asset prices creating a wealth effect to spur spending and real economic growth.

It is they who are reminding voters that casinos redistribute wealth from the poorest in society up the ladder towards the most affluent, make no contribution to long term economic growth, and cause social ills in the communities where they are built.

I want to interpret the tradition in terms of the present and the present in terms of the tradition, thus setting up a communication between past and present in the service of enhanced self - understanding.1 Such an enterprise differs from an effort to explain American society in terms of social and economic variables.

We are accustomed to thinking of the «costs» of modernization in the developing nations: the disrupted traditions, the break - up of families and villages, the impact of vast economic and social forces that can neither be understood nor adapted to in terms of inherited wisdom and ways of living.

This obscure reference to his unpublished Manuscripts is entirely understandable for us when we recall that he did indeed develop in them a systematic criticism of Hegel.11 Marx turned Hegelianism «right side up again», by reading Hegel in materialistic economic terms.

These constraints set up by the organic agriculture standards lead to nitrogen on organic farms nitrogen being - in economic terms - a quantitatively scarce factor.

Nevertheless, in the long run, despite the Tories success in framing the ideological narrative in terms of spending cuts, reducing the deficit and cleaning up New Labour's economic mess, the ideological terrain of fairness, excessive bonuses and inequality is Labour's ground.

It held up a mirror to just how unhappy and fragile this country really is underneath all the Tory spin about a «long term economic plan.»

But the rise in oil and commodity prices pushed up inflation in the UK more than in other countries, demonstrating the downsides of a policy of deliberate devaluation to which much of the British economic policy establishment remains committed as an article of faith, despite little evidence that it has done much long term good.

Cutting public services and jobs now will hit local economies, stunting economic growth, and ultimately force long - term borrowing up.»

In addition, according to the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, after the environmental clean - up costs and the repayment of loans taken out by Minvest from Gabriel Resources, the project would generate nowhere near the $ 4 billion claimed by RMGC, but instead bring «nothing to the region but a long term sentence to poverty.»

«The simple fact is that the Welsh Labour Government has nothing in the way of a long - term economic strategy, no joined - up plan on how to create jobs and invest in infrastructure.

This event, with its line up of experts from business and academia offers a great opportunity to understand and discuss the challenges of doing innovation in China and India as well as the long - term economic consequences of these trends.

Next up is the man Cuomo has termed a «near genius,» his former economic development czar, Alain Kaloyeros.

Last year, the Coalition for Queens worked with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's New York City Regional Economic Development Council to incorporate Queens tech companies and the area's start - up community into the state's long - term planning, and the group is urging Cuomo to make the borough the site of a business incubator and an Innovation Hot Spot.

The governor in his first term has cast himself as a pro-business chief executive and pursued measures friendly toward the state's business community, including a self - imposed spending cap in the state budget, a limit on annual property tax increases and a revamped economic development program called START - UP NY.

In the run up to the last general election, Osborne encouraged ministers to use the phrase «long term economic plan» in almost every statement they made.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a yeaUp - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a yeaup or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

As far back as my first term in the Legislature some six years ago I have worked to bring focus to this problem; a demand for equivalent service or withdrawal was part of my Minority Address four years ago; and a formal withdrawal process was commenced in the legislature, under the auspices of the Economic Development committee headed up by Legislator Michael Grant, three years ago on January 21, 2009 to be precise.

In the long term we should up - skill British workers so that we do not need as many economic migrants to fill jobs.

Labour's economic strategy — to lift borrowing in the near term in an attempt to boost growth — is the stark opposite of the extended austerity programme to which the Lib Dems have signed up.

He added: «Ed Miliband has shown he's too weak to stand up to the union barons who own him, too weak to stand up for hardworking people and too weak to offer a long - term economic plan to secure Britain's future.»

The Centre for Vision in the Developing World, set up by University of Oxford physicist Joshua Silver, says that by 2030 eyesight will be one of the world's top 10 health issues in terms of productivity and opportunities — taking a bigger economic toll than the HIV epidemic.

In a report on their HIV epidemic - economic model, published online in October by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers say that efforts to encourage people with HIV to follow up regularly with their provider and maintain long - term drug therapy may be more fruitful in preventing HIV transmission than efforts to increase HIV testing alone.

Improved population estimates could help resource managers to weigh up the economic benefits that forests provide in terms of water purification, soil conservation and other functions against those of harvesting or clearing trees for farmland, says ecosystems - services ecologist Becky Chaplin - Kramer of Stanford University in California.

Its main objectives are: to train SESAME staff in the storage ring and beamline instrumentation technology, research techniques and administration, to build - up human capacity in Middle East researchers to optimally exploit SESAME's infrastructure, and to train SESAME staff and user community in public outreach and corporate communications, as well as to support SESAME and its stakeholders in building awareness and demonstrating its socio - economic impact to assure longer term exploitation.

Thinking in the same economic terms, what's going to happen as soon as you clean up your mismanagement problem, and resources start moving smoothly from wherever they are stored to wherever they are needed?

The total value of Internet sales by UK non-financial businesses employing 10 or more people in 2008 was # 222.9 b, up 36.6 % on 2007, which shows in economic terms the pace of this change.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

The A Nation at Risk report warned in the starkest terms that if U.S. schools didn't shape up, the Germans and Japanese would beat our economic brains out, just as all the post-Sputnik Cassandras of the late 1950s and early 1960s warned that the Russians would win the cold war if the schools did not improve.

Roseanna Ander, Jonathan Guryan and Jens Ludwig propose scaling up a daily, individualized tutorial program that would allow students who have fallen behind grade level in math to reengage with regular classroom instruction, likely increasing their chances of graduating high school and achieving the many long - term economic benefits that go along with academic success.

In economic terms, the broader conversation about financing early years education and care should acknowledge that the sector is financed not only by governments and parents, but also propped up financially by members of educators» households.

«Now we have an «irrational exuberance» for reform,» Pinkston contends, using the term Alan Greenspan coined for describing the economic speculation in the country that led to the stock market run - up in the 1990s.

The $ 10k + is, in economic terms, a sunk cost and is at the very least comparable to the cost of borrowing, rent, renovation, bookshelves and other equipment necessary for opening up a physical bookstore.

As the Federal Reserve is expected to «taper» its purchases of long - term Treasuries and mortgage - backed securities, and as economic growth picks up, long - term yields will gradually rise.

Unlike traditional financial advisors and other robo - advisors, the internal algorithms build and manage global, customized portfolios of highly diversified, low - cost ETFs across asset - classes, while putting an emphasis on risk management by incorporating deep analysis of economic cycles in order to navigate its ups and downs and maximize long - term returns.

Well, in crass economic terms, your years in the workforce are all about building up enough financial capital so that one day you can live without the income of your human capital, and so if you think about that process, building up savings so that one day you no longer need a paycheck.

However, the NBER paper suggests that when low - income borrowers attend less selective schools that are still in the middle of the road in terms of economic mobility, about half end up earning more than $ 25,000 a year after entering repayment.