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Speaking at the closing ceremony of the fifth National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Expo in Sharm - el - Sheikh, Egypt, Ms Espinosa emphasized that adapting to climate impacts is as much an opportunity to build resilient economies and societies as it is to improving the state of the world.

And the potential for cuts in oil and gas methane emissions to help us achieve this goal, while benefiting the economy and society as a whole, is an opportunity we can't afford to miss.

Steve Hill, Director of External Engagement at The Open University, comments: «Productivity underpins economic growth, playing a vital role in our economy and society as a whole.

The series include the Dallas landscape, economy and society as the subjects.

My opinion is that, putting global warming and climate change aside, we have much greater evidence of the difficult future caused by land degradation, shrinking drinkable water supplies, collapsing fish stocks, and the troubles that will be caused to the economy and society as supply of oil and gas supplies shrink and energy becomes too expensive.

According to our research there are several reasons why this new technology is going to disrupt our economy and society as we have never experienced before:

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The study looked at living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness as a way to determine if the economies were including every individual equally in their society.

As increasingly fast - paced change grips our economy and society, it's clear that it's time for unions to think about doing things in a new way.

As Satya Nadella said, we are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and every organization with tools they can use to go solve the most pressing challenges of our society and our economy.

In all these cases the effect of debt deflation extracting interest is not only on spending — and hence on current prices — but on the economy's long - term ability to produce, by eating into natural resources and the environment as well as society's manmade capital stock.

To keep prices low and hence national economies competitive, governments were to undertake society's largest spending programs: basic infrastructure such as transportation, power production, communications — all of which happen to be natural monopolies as well.

Strong economies and societies around the world help fuel the growth of our business, while integrity, trust and responsibility are essential to our continued success as a premier global investment management organization.

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

Chudacoff describes how the demands of single life promoted neighborhood services such as laundries, pawn shops, and drug stores with tobacco and soda services, but he dismisses society's apprehension that such neighborhood facilities could be sites of vice and dissipation, implying that they were simply products of the service economy single men required.

Samuel Gregg, author of award - winning titles such as Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded, On Ordered Liberty, The Commercial Society, and The Modern Papacy (on John Paul II's and Benedict XVI's social and political thought), highlights Röpke's more humane approach to political economy.

People are increasingly recognized that the economy itself is far too important to be left to those who deal with it in such abstract ways and that society as a whole is too rich to be placed in the service of the market.

The ideology of the «free market» plugged by the media and academics as the panacea for the problems of economy and society may help the spread of such elements of a mono - culture.

As I said earlier, you can not have a fair society unless you have an economy which is growing, where people can get work, earn their own money, look after themselves and their families.

The defiance of the song was a defense, as many of his songs («Workin» Man Blues,» for instance) were — of those who were derided by the mainstream of society, like the «Okies» demonized in California, as, at best, a drag on the economy and, at worst, a threat to public safety.

As in his previous book Lewis provides data on the yawning gap between Western nations and the economies and cultures of Muslim societies.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

As the institutional pressures of the economy change, alternative behaviors will supplant this shortsightedness, but this will not happen without a political and legal restructuring of the corporation's place in the society.

Old - fashioned laissez - faire in its pure form has fewer proponents today, but it is still conventional, among experts as well as in common discourse, to speak of «the economy» as an entity as though it were quite separate from government and society.

If the economy were viewed as one among several important components of society, perhaps as subordinate to sociological and political considerations, then it would be these sociological and political considerations to which we should be giving primary attention.

He concluded that their news portrays society as divided into three separate spheres of activity: the private sphere, which includes the individual, family and private enterprise; the public sphere, where «politics» and «the economy» operate; and the state sphere, where agencies of the government maintain political, economic, and social stability.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

The «new economy» spurred on by the new technology is still in a period of transition just as our society is groaning though a movement away from modernity and modern rationality into postmodernity and a postmodern rationality signified by its offspring technology that will continue to give it shape.

A profile in La Stampa headlined «the cardinal who brings poetry to the faith» described him as one who «speaks like a poet but his evangelical message covers the economy, society and politics».

As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.

Like so many others, the Augustinian cloister had in fact taken on a life of its own as a social and economic unit in a society devoted to the maintenance of the policy and economy of the Church with all its complicated and expensive structures.

It forecast that «almost all our economy and society» will be affected by the momentous changes taking place to our north and warned «a whole - of - Australia effort» was needed to deal with a social and economic transformation as «profound as any that have defined Australia throughout our history.»

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It seems that as a society, we are displacing our own anxieties about the unstable economy and the condition of the planet onto our children.

This is precisely because «Islamic umma» is not «an imagined community» equivalent of any nation - state; it «is ideologically not «a society» onto which state, economy and religion can be mapped» as it is «neither limited nor sovereign», and «can eventually embrace all of humanity» (Asad 2003: 197 — 198).

As Angolan oligarchs and profiteering foreign consultants reaped astonishing sums in a free - for - all reconstruction economy, the broader Angolan society was growing restless.

At various points, he recognizes the legitimacy of all four common justifications of market regulation: to protect workers from exploitation, to protect consumers, to protect third parties harmed by market transactions (through externalities), and to preserve the stability of the economy or society as a whole (e.g., through regulation of the financial sector).

Moreover, when industrialised countries undergo population decline — as Russia did from the 1990s onwards, for example — their economies and societies suffer as a result.

So, as a human society, where so much of the emphasis has been on preparing and improving the productivity of the workforce, and people's lives center around the labor they contribute to economies, what do you do when you don't NEED everyone to work?

In May 2013, Fox described a vote for independence as a «significant defeat for the British state and its stranglehold over our economy, society, culture and politics», as well as an opportunity to» [repudiate] neo-liberalism, corporatism, the financialisation of our economy and existing class relations».

We'll finish the job of balancing the books, but continuing to spread the burden fairly, as we have been in this government — giving Britain a stronger economy and a fairer society too.

But in another sense, as we always know, out of crisis comes the chance to think about the kind of economy and society we want to build.

The Liberal Democrats will continue to build a stronger economy and a fairer society for Wales, Nick Clegg has said today as he launches the Welsh Liberal Democrats» General Election campaign.

As we need a leader who can offer a vision of a fairer society and economy.

He should explain why his moral purpose in politics is defined by extending opportunity to all and narrowing the gaps in life chances in Britain, because we are stronger as a society and an economy when all are included.

Kathryn Nwajiaku, Oxford, gives a talk on The politics of Oil and Ethnic Nationalism in Nigeria's Niger Delta as part of the Nigeria Economy and Society section of the Celebrating Gavin Williams Conference.

Of course, we can not be starry eyed about globalisation — it presents huge challenges as our economies and societies try to adapt.

But it is clear that a fairer and more balanced economy would mean — a more reliable and resilient tax base — as well as fairer outcomes and more resilient families and communities so as well as delivering a stronger economy and a fairer society, a more responsible capitalism will also help us deliver long term fiscal sustainability.

Its proposed high - pay successor would consider options like maximum wage ratios and bonus taxation as the best ways of providing a «just society and sustainable economy».

The proposals within the collection echo the sentiment of David Cameron's «big society» agenda and pushes for the government to encourage workers in the private and public sectors to form mutuals in order to aid what its authors described as a «broken» economy.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.