Sentences with phrase «engines of growth»

Cities have always been engines of growth, innovation and opportunity, drawing people from afar since the ancient settlements of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus, and the Yellow River gave urban form to «a certain energized crowding» along their alluvial plains.

For example, in the settling of America, one of the big engines of growth was abundant natural resources.

«It's going to be one of our main engines of growth,» says David Booth, co-chief executive of the index fund giant.

But ultimately, China needs to find more sustainable engines of growth beyond further debt accumulation by unproductive national and local SOEs, or accept slower growth.

Deeply discounted books were among the key components in the fuel stoking Amazon's engines of growth.

President Barrack Obama, on Tuesday while delivering his historic address in Havana, Cuba, called for the island nation to expand Internet access across the country, calling the Internet «one of the greatest engines of growth in human history.»

Much of the bank's financial support has been directed toward the construction and manufacturing sectors, which make up 20 % of Zambia's GDP and are expected to be the engines of growth for the future.

The recommendations are future - oriented by design; the role of Asia and the need to equip Canada's work force with skills for the future feature prominently as engines of our growth.

Let's learn and connect these communities, engines of growth and innovation.

But if we don't get involved, we'll miss out on one of the main engines of growth over the coming years.

Four years into the recovery, the U.S. economy has finally gained some momentum — and just in time to give Canada a nudge forward when all domestic engines of growth, from consumer demand to the housing market, had burned out.

But the company's real engine of growth is in the fledgling wholesale and design side of the business — something that never would have happened had White not been paying attention to his customers» needs.

So, over the next couple of quarters, business investment is going to become an engine of growth,» Jesper Koll, head of Japanese equity research at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo told CNBC Asia's «Squawk Box.»

A prolonged economic slowdown in the nation's economy has put pressure on big consumer brands like Anheuser - Busch InBev, which has long depended on Brazil as an engine of growth.

Clothes are getting smarter... Sure, innovation is the engine of growth, but sometimes it can seem a bit, well, unnecessary.

But net exports seem poised to become a larger engine of growth, one that could help offset the impact of further spending cuts in Washington or soften the punch from another bout of eurozone crisis travails, writes TD's Michael Dolega.

Whereas Britain may not have been an engine of growth for 18th Century India, or at least for the Indian textile industry, it was for much of the 19th Century the world's engine of growth because it supplied much of the capital that a savings - starved world needed to fund investment.

An engine of growth drives growth around the rest of the world.

If an economy is simply growing quickly, and especially if it is growing at the expense of other economies, it can hardly be called an engine of growth.

But this doesn't mean it is the engine of growth.

If there is such a thing as a global engine of growth, in the latter case, it is the country that is able (or is forced) to import the most amount of capital and export the most amount of demand (i.e. run the largest trade deficit).

«I think that we all appreciate the engine of growth is with small and medium - sized businesses,» said Mnuchin.

The same IMF report above concluded «G - 20 emerging economies will remain an engine of growth, but the rate of expansion is expected to drop to 5.6 percent this year from 7.1 percent in 2011, before rebounding to 6.2 percent in 2013.

Canada has been doing a pretty good job of supporting its tech startups, but I'm calling on government, private investors, banks and pension funds to double down on that support to help make them the country's engine of growth over the next decade.

Part of the problem is that emerging markets, an engine of growth for much of the past decade, continue to decelerate.

And by that we mean bring an end to double - digit price gains, bring about a steep correction in house prices to levels the city's lowly middle - class incomes can afford, bring about an end to staggering household debt levels and ultimately, bring about the end of housing as the economy's engine of growth?

Most worrisome is the British Columbia pipeline fiasco where a lawless NDP government has gotten away with impeding a legally approved pipeline and by doing so damaged Alberta, Canada's engine of growth.

Growing self - reliance in North America has also fueled a fierce battle over market share in Asia, the engine of growth for fossil fuels, a trend that ADNOC's CEO acknowledged in his remarks on Monday.

Globalization encourages the capitalist engine of growth.

This is linked to the policy of the private sector being considered to promote the engine of growth.

The creativity and entrepreneurship which is the engine of growth in the music industry is not just in London - it's in Scotland, Wales and every region of England.

``... Management should not wait for us to even come and ask if we are really the engine of growth as workers.

``... Management should not wait for us to even come and ask if we are really the engine of growth...

Within the [NY Fed] region, New York City remains an engine of growth, posting job gains that surpass the national pace.

«SMEs are the engine of growth.

«The engine of growth is through entrepreneurship.

«As a Government that believes in the private sector as the engine of growth, the Government through the Ministry of Trade and Industry welcomed the initiative to collaborate with the Foundation to see to the birthing of the initiative.

This development he noted has affected the growth of small and medium enterprises considered as the engine of growth.

But in the Ambassador's view, President Akufo - Addo's decision to «make the private sector the engine of growth rather than government being the driving force is how I see the difference between the two of them.

Organized under the theme, «Let's empower the Engine of Growth», the forum was to afford the Bank's customers an opportunity to appreciate relevant government policies which affect the business community as well as informing them of some developments within the Bank.

I want to be part of the new engine of growth, i.e., be involved in the biomedical sciences or the medical devices, biotechnology, or pharmaceutical sector.

The theoretical engine of this growth turns out to be complex: New galaxies get pulled in and stretched around the halo like strings of spaghetti, maintaining the signature of their independent origin; galaxies closer to the central bulge get mixed up with other old structures, losing the hallmarks of their original form.

Lee highlighted the promotion of biomedical sciences as the nation's new engine of growth and added that one of the central cores of activity will be staffing development, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Interestingly, that was exactly the same time that Christian Dior and many other luxury brands first entered India with a wave of retail investment and high hopes that the country would become a new engine of growth.

We believe mobile is an important engine of growth in the online dating industry, and we're pleased to be one of the leading providers of online dating applications.»

This is a great example of a pivot, as defined by Eric Ries: «a structured course correction designed to test a new fundamental hypothesis about the product, strategy, and engine of growth.»

The second avenue is collecting, developing and learning effective dialogue practices between religions The enterprise is the major engine of growth in the world but its gaps and weakness lead to sub-optimal wealth creation and sometimes to massive wealth destruction as we had seen in the 2008 global financial crisis.

Now that student academic progress will be used as a measurement of teacher effectiveness, it is crucial to transform teacher evaluation from an exercise in compliance to an effective engine of growth.

With this new focus, it has become crucial to transform teacher evaluation from an exercise in compliance to an effective engine of growth.

All five of the company's brands operating in the States contributed, but the engine of the growth was Volkswagen.