Sentences with phrase «economic think tank»

The country's leading economic think tank forecast that with spending on health and education protected, defence, housing, transport and higher education would be the most likely areas to be cut.

Juha Siikamäki, a fellow at the environmental economic think tank Resources for the Future and lead author of the study, says efforts to maintain mangroves could add an enormous potential for carbon offset projects.

«Iain Duncan Smith's plan to persuade millions of people that working is more lucrative than living on benefits could succeed, Britain's leading economic think tank said today.

I find it difficult to comprehend Ralph Martire as the head of a Chicago - based (supposedly) bipartisan economic think tank when he is actually a well - known liberal expounding Keynesian policies.

There was nothing new in their proposed strategy that could not be found in policy statements made by G - 7 leaders, G - 20 leaders, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and most credible Economic think tanks over the past decade.

Ron Deutsch with Fiscal Policy Institute, a union - affiliated economic think tank, said the ideas do seem a bit far - fetched, but he said states with higher local taxes may have to get «creative» to prevent being harmed by the new tax changes.

The bruising process of reforming public sector pensions will not save the taxpayer any money, a respected economic think tank has argued.

EARN is a network of 61 state and local economic think tanks and 25 national partners founded by the Economic Policy Institute and several other state and national groups, including the Fiscal Policy Institute.

The tax plan, known as the one - percent tax plan, was worked out in conjunction with the Fiscal Policy Institute, a left - leaning economic think tank.

The OECD economic think tank says the comparisons - based on test scores in 76 countries - show the link between education and economic growth.

The head of a Chicago - based bipartisan economic think tank, Ralph Martire, discusses the link between government policies and your financial well - being.

In a report released Monday, the economic think tank

As the economic think tank Milken Institute wrote in September 2016, Shenzhen is «one of the pioneers in China's new economy.»

The Conference Board, an economic think tank, analyzed job postings in the 20 metro area candidates and found that in terms of the kinds of jobs Amazon hires for in Seattle, the D.C. area and Boston were the fastest growing in terms of Amazon technical staffers.

Economic think tanks are reducing their estimates of the impact of sequestration.

Research by the impartial Centre for Public Policy for Regions (CPPR), an economic think tank, warned that Alex Salmond had «skewed in an optimistic manner» estimates for North Sea oil revenues and failed to incorporate recent downward trends in production.

The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) is an economic think tank that focuses on issues that affect the quality of life and economic well - being of New York State residents.

The economic think tank also predicts as many as 50,000 people from Romania and Bulgaria are set to move to the UK in 2007.

Subsidy reform boosts revenue in India, Indonesia Phil Sharp, a former 10 - term congressman from Indiana and current president of the economic think tank Resources for the Future, said such critical examinations of energy subsidies and their broad societal effects are helpful in keeping the issue «out front» with policymakers.

In fact, such energy - saving measures in the U.S. alone could negate the need for 66 large coal - fired power plants, according to a study by McKinsey Global Institute, an economic think tank and global consultancy.

But the economic think tank has decided to introduce a very different kind of test, addressing the type of skills young people need to navigate a world of «post-truth» and social media «echo chambers».

Jeremy Kronick, senior policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, an economic think tank, argues that if governments want to cool overheated housing markets without chilling economic growth in the process, they've been going about it the wrong way.