Sentences with phrase «economies of countries like»

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When that day of reckoning comes, the huge Chinese investments in countries like Canada could suddenly be repatriated and the economies of both countries will falter.

South Koreans revere the entrepreneurs like Cho's grandfather who helped build the country's economy from the ashes of the 1959 - 53 Korean War.

Indeed, in countries like Spain and Greece, youth unemployment remains above 50 percent and shows little sign of abating despite improvements in the economies of these countries.

While Colorado and California are looked at as models of the modern marijuana economy, the U.S. lags behind other countries like Canada, which already has a fully - functional nationwide medical program and will launch its nationwide recreational program in the next year.

Besides touching off a trade war with other countries, a bump in costs — even if only for certain sectors of the economy, like automotive companies — could have ripple effects on the economy overall.

Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»

We have the biggest economy in the world in terms of GDP, but when it comes to internet speed, we fall behind countries like Romania, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Russia.

President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday to open the country's economy further and lower import tariffs on products like cars, in a speech seen as an attempt to defuse the increasingly bitter dispute with the United States and possibly open the way for the start of negotiations after both sides threatened tit - for - tat tariffs.

All are potentially big issues for a country like Canada, since services now count among the fastest - growing sectors of the economy.

Now, I personally find it hard to believe that a country that makes up just 5 % of S&P revenues like China does, is going to derail the US economy, but I would be an idiot if I didn't admit that I have no idea what's really going on in the Chinese economy (and neither does anyone else to be honest).

Like many major central banks, the Bank of Japan has been buying the country's bonds in order to stimulate the economy.

The paper argues that sub-national governments like provinces don't have the same ability to stimulate the economy through spending, partly because of spillage to other provinces and partly because their actions don't directly impact the country's trade.

«We had to create a new kind of economy,» he wrote, «try new methods and schemes never tried before anywhere else in the world because there was no other country like Singapore.»

«Of the other BRICS, commodity - driven countries like Russia and Brazil did not diversify their economies fast enough while oil prices rode high,» observes Lau.

This is why countries like China, whose economies are not subject to these two constraints, are able to achieve GDP growth targets that for many years exceed the underlying growth of the economy.

As China moves to grow its domestic consumer economy, this can only be good news for countries like Canada which has always aspired to move beyond the export of «rocks and logs».

The United States produces beef for both domestic and foreign customers, and many countries like Canada, Mexico, and Japan create a huge demand for American beef, driving the economy for thousands of farmers across the midwest.

The award is open to Technology Fast 500 companies that come from countries with huge local economies like China, India, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, and cover a wide range of industries.

Estimates of the economic multiplier for small open economies like Canada are lower than for larger countries like the United States.

In terms of the actual economy in the Eurozone, in aggregate, I think that the Eurozone is roughly a 1.5 % growth economy, but again that's in aggregate so it masks the big divisions between the core countries like Germany and the weaker countries like Greece and Portugal, and Italy as well.

It ushered in the age of globalization, it allowed countries like China to be revolutionized from a very poor, developing country, to the second largest economy in the world.

Half of the country's 2014 exports were raw products like oil, iron ore, soybean and corn, so the economy has been vulnerable to commodity price changes on those products.

While only Italy and Japan here are considered major economies on a global scale, the high debt levels of countries like Greece or Portugal are also important to monitor.

and after all of this were now in economy problems and natural disasters and our country looks like its falling.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

Studies have to be carried concerning the economies, the social conditions of people, their human rights, working conditions, the flow of capital, the ownership of assets in a country and world, the availability and ownership of finance, the operation of agencies like the WB, IMF and WTO.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

And the crisis of confidence in the ability of Eurozone countries to pay their debts has spread from the periphery to major economies like Italy and Spain.

We need someone like Doug Hoffman who reflects North Country values such as pro-life, term limits, opposes cap and trade legislation (which if enacted will destroy what remains of the North Country economy), and opposes card check legislation.

Frank embraces the populist tone that most members of Congress are employing against Wall Street, especially lines like «saving the banks and corporations wasn't the goal» of fixing «our country's broken economy.»

Well I got a tougher — you know, when two thirds or three quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think — on, my point is, a country's more like, [inaudible], a country's more than an economy.

BANNON: Well I got a tougher — you know, when two thirds or three quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think — on, my point is, a country's more like, [inaudible], a country's more than an economy.

He said: «There is just one economy in this country and so we need to first of all accept the fact that there is nothing like private sector as against public sector; there is nothing like Federal Government as against State Government.

Referring to major growing economies like India and China, Mr Blair said: «They've every imperative to be part of a deal provided it is one that allows them to grow their economies so that they spread the prosperity they are creating to the millions in those countries still in poverty.

For a mono - product economy like ours, it is not unprecedented, therefore, that a sudden and sustained decline in the price of the product will impact the country's revenue negatively.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

There's a reason other countries, like Australia, are putting together plans to encourage more foreign students: they bring lots of cash, they contribute to the local economy, and they provide a long - term boost to a country's reputation, international status and finances.

At a time like this in our country's history, after the neo-cons have destroyed our economy, killed our children in an unjust invasion / occupation of a country that did nothing to us, extinguished our world beacon to peace and freedom, of course we need this visionary to rekindle the spirits of John & Bobbie and restore America; s greatness.

Like other countries that see knowledge - growth as a pillar of their economies, Wales has created a science agenda that aims not only to expand academic science, but to translate science and technology into applications that lead to economic growth.

But now countries like China and India are seeing the benefits of brainpower and what it can do to remake their economies.

It seems like a lot of trouble for a country already considered a climate leader among the world's middle - sized economies.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

In an earlier study, UCI's Davis showed that developed countries were outsourcing both jobs and the problem of industrial pollution by having products manufactured in low - wage economies like China's.

McKibben: Well, it's not quite the same, because we're not, you know, we [wouldn't] try to, sort of, do a big political campaign around it, but it is the way that this, you know, the things like this locavore movement and local agriculture in general have spread very rapidly from local farmers» market [s] to the fastest growing part of the food economy in this country and have been for a decade now, they're just booming everywhere.

It is anyway difficult to achieve such excellence, imagine accomplishing the same while building the wealth like that of Warren Buffett or try running a country with as significant an economy like Germany.

With countries like China and India building larger intensive knowledge based economies the report said that Australia needed to «lift its game» in the teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects.

He recalled the awe that the smart set once evinced for the economies of «Japan, Inc.» and the Soviet Union, and noted that Germany's current success benefits from liberalization «that made the country a little bit more like... the United States.»

He heads the Center for Education and the Economy which for 25 years has been studying the world's best performing education systems, like the Chinese province of Shanghai and countries like Japan and the Republic of Korea.

Business leaders, like education leaders, are acutely aware of what this could mean for the future of our country: Young people might be unprepared for rewarding jobs and the demands of informed citizenship, businesses may not find the talent they need to keep innovating, and the economy may stagnate with too little innovation.

So many of us in this country wake each morning having to ask essential questions about what «good work» means, what it looks like in a nation driven too often by the short - term, what - ever - it - takes logic of the free - market economy — or more generally in a culture that willingly downplays professional ethics.