Sentences with phrase «economic ties at»

The upcoming G20 summit in China and week - long visit by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are shining a light on Canada and China's economic ties at a pivotal time for both our countries.

And a trade war would damage transatlantic economic ties at a crucial time when economic growth is picking up on both sides of the Atlantic and trade between the US and the EU is increasing.

Not exact matches

The U.K. is bending over backwards to welcome Saudi Arabia's crown prince as he starts a three - day state visit aimed at deepening economic ties between the two countries.

Economists agreed almost unanimously at a recent provincial economic summit that a consumption tax would help level out the peaks and valleys of provincial revenue tied to energy prices.

But it is not «symbiotic,» because it can be ended at any time without really threatening either party's solvency and survival» could you please explain why you don't think that if, say, the US and China had to sever their economic ties (Walmart & Co.) that would not severely hurt both economies?

The growth in fintech investment comes at a time when the UAE and Saudi Arabia are strengthening economic ties.

Beyond closer economic and political ties within the island chains, China also gains influence at the U.N., as the islands account for 14 votes in the General Assembly.

Negotiating such a deal will be challenging given the complexity of the issues at hand and the need to secure Canadian public support for closer economic ties.

James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management in Boston, suggested that Kuroda's fate was tied to that of Abe's, who he says called an early election as a «reaffirmation» of his economic growth platform.

The Minister of Finance announced yesterday that, while the Canada Health Transfer and Equalization will be tied to nominal economic growth (projected to be about 4 % annually), the Canada Social Transfer for post-secondary education and other provincial services will grow at only 3 % annually.

The fund pursues opportunities tied to the economic growth of these countries, and invests at least 80 percent of its assets in equites securities of companies located in the emerging markets of Eastern Europe.

At a daily news briefing on Wednesday, Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry, reiterated that the country does not want a trade war and that the economic ties between the two countries have lowered costs for American consumers.

At that point, Puerto Rico's strong ties to the United States became a liability because Puerto Rico could not adjust to bad economic times with currency depreciation, but Puerto Rican people could adjust to bad times by moving to the mainland United States.

Since its establishment in 1987, the bank has implemented international credit, guarantee and credit insurance programs aimed at developing economic and political ties between Turkey and other countries.

Second, my analysis will focus on the Operação Lava Jato («Car Wash Operation»), arguably the immediate cause of the current political crisis, and will not address the ties between the media and the economic crisis — a dimension to the crisis which is at least as important as the political.

«At the top of the Conservative party, the narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU has now been interpreted as the pretext for a drastic cutting of ties with Europe, which would have dire economic results - and as an excuse for the most toxic rhetoric on immigration we have seen from any government in living memory,» the statement reads.

The China phenomenon is frequently depicted at official and unofficial levels as having put European - US ties under strain, mostly arising from a confluence of the growing significance of Asia in US economic and strategic policy; Europe's political and economic malaise; and China's more confident and assertive external policies that include the prospect of enhanced financial and economic ties between major European countries and China.

These missions are the results of common efforts done by the GIPC and the Embassy of Mexico at just one year of the full opening of the mentioned diplomatic mission in Accra, and its target is to strengthen the economic ties between both countries who are called to turn two main actors in the economic global growth in the following years.

Former Chair of CB 12 and a small business owner (he is the proprietor of the X Café at the site of the former Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated), Ramadan stresses his deep ties to upper Manhattan, where he has spent much of his life since emigrating from Kuwait as a child, and his work in promoting economic development in Upper Manhattan.

The first event was in an upstairs room at 677 Prime, a steakhouse on Broadway, and was stocked with people with ties to the Capital Region Economic Development Council — a Cuomo - created entity that helps state bureaucrats pick projects and organizations to subsidize.

The company had close ties with two men now at the center of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's investigation into the Cuomo administration's economic development efforts: lobbyist Todd Howe and former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco.

Beyond that, we now have the evidence that reinforces earlier findings on the effects of ambient pollution at large and can say that these effects are very likely real, not just loosely correlated or tied up with other economic issues like household migration dynamics.»

After years of promoting economic growth at almost any cost, Beijing is now struggling to change official attitudes, despite a raft of new policies, including tying civil servants» career prospects to their energy - saving achievements.

At the outset of the lecture, Mr. Bouffier touched upon the fact that, as Japan is a strong partner of Europe in political, economic, financial and academic terms, earlier during his visit to Japan he had held a meeting with members of the cabinet including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and had discussed in particular the strengthening of ties between Hesse and Japan.

Having run into trouble at Princeton for his ties to online gambling and now in debt for thousands, math whiz Richie Furst (Timberlake)-- whose once - promising Wall Street career was killed by the»08 economic crisis — discovers he's been cheated out of his money by an offshore gambling site.

ICPS believes that the twinning arrangements involving local authorities at the city or provincial level can lead to better understanding, improve cultural, economic and other ties between different parts of the world.

In a speech at the Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit, Romney described how how he would tie federal education funds to individual students to help promote school choice.

The interest rate on a fixed - rate mortgage will remain the same for the entire life of your loan while the interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) may adjust at regular intervals and may be tied to an economic index, such as a rate for Treasury securities.

Speaking at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Ai spoke passionately about the plight of artists and activists in his home country, and implored Western governments not to overlook China's human rights in order to cement economic ties.

At different moments, diverse aesthetic interests have flourished so that Britain, despite having fewer cultural, economic and political ties with the region than with other parts of the globe, throughout the past century has nevertheless been engaged with and touched by key aspects of Latin American art.

Since a big recession might hit coal - burning utilities» customers more than other utility customers (to name one example) or hit coal - using industries like cement and steel more than others, one has to look carefully not only at CO2 emissions changes but at underlying economic activity or personal activity changes and how those are tied to emissions in a disaggregated way.

I can't do more at the moment because I'm tied up this week visiting the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis near (roasting) Vienna, one of the world's top hubs assessing economic, population and climate trends, as well as energy and resource demands.

«This is the first time in at least 40 years that a halt or reduction in emissions has not been tied to an economic crisis,» the IEA said at the time.

Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hendricks said the «jobs versus the environment» battle pervaded his policy work — first as a special assistant to then - Vice President Al Gore, and later as an economic analyst at the Working for America Institute, an economic group tied to the AFL - CIO, the nation's largest labor union.

The conference, hosted by British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, was aimed at strengthening the socio - cultural and economic ties between China and Canada.

It depends on the definition of «default,» but many economists — including those at nonpartisan and bipartisan groups with ties to former economic advisers of Republican leaders — warn Paul's narrow definition underplays how the marketplace would react to any default of payments, whether to bondholders or others.

Our understanding in 1979 may not by itself have implied a call to action at that point, but we'd already suffered through the 1973 oil embargo, knew that U.S. strategic and economic fortunes were tied to a resource we could not necessarily control, knew of other reasons to switch (pollution, ultimate limits to fossil fuel availability, etc.), and knew that other technologies were seemingly within our grasp.

From the time I arrived at Pacific to the time that I left, the entering class size shrunk 40 per cent and so wanting to make sure that we're in a position — and the Canadian market is very different — but recognizing that legal education is very closely tied to the economic pressures of the day, not just in the legal profession but more broadly, is something I'll be bringing forward.

Because these events aren't necessarily tied to the economic cycle, the industry «isn't recession - proof, but it is recession - resistant,» says Ryan Burke, an analyst at real - estate research firm Green Street Advisors.