Sentences with phrase «for economic competitiveness»

Importantly, the UCS analysis represents a conservative estimate for the economic competitiveness of wind and solar resources, because it assumes that the new renewable resources would be built in the same geographic area as the existing coal fired generating units.

The latter statistic represents the «pipeline» of those ready for college and the 21st century workplace, is a more realistic measure of educational success and the challenge we face than any «dropout» calculation might indicate, and does not bode well, not only for our economic competitiveness, but for the future of responsible democratic citizenship.

John Redwood has used an interview with the FT (subscription required) to set out some of the priorities for the economic competitiveness task force that he will be chairing:

Not exact matches

We can, and must, do something to expand opportunity for every young person — not simply as a moral imperative but out of economic necessity and competitiveness.

«With an ever - changing business environment, our economic plan aims to help our businesses adapt to the new technological reality and foster the competitiveness of Quebec to attract investment for leading players,» he said in a statement.

But German deputy foreign minister Michael Link hinted Paris could be fighting a losing battle this time, saying Berlin would continue to press for deeper overall cuts as part of a «modern budget» that prioritises economic growth and competitiveness.

Just this week, Will Carty, manager of public policy for Twitter, wrote a blog post praising reclassification as «critical to American economic aspirations and our nation's global competitiveness» with «important implications for freedom of expression.»

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

Canada should understand this and act to support what we have achieved, as well as help Mexico convince our mutual neighbour to change the new government's misguided and damaging attacks on our common objectives: more prosperity, more economic growth and more competitiveness for all three nations.

While that was seen as a sign of health of Europe's economic recovery and signaled growing foreign investor appetite for the region's equities, it curbed the value of overseas earnings and hurt competitiveness.

The business case for clean energy goes beyond economic competitiveness: In countries such as China and India, delivering more power without adding to the smog that already chokes big cities is paramount.

Indeed, the World Economic Forum in its recent competitiveness ranking lists the UK among the top three countries in the world for «the most technologically - ready» economy, quality of scientific research institutions and management schools, strong intellectual property rights, and at the very top for foreign ownership of companies.

Members of the Board of Trade's Government Budget and Finance Committee travelled to Victoria today for the provincial budget lockup, where they received an advanced copy of the budget and assessed it on three criteria: Economic Vision, Fiscal Prudence, and Tax Competitiveness.

This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.

«It is imperative for all of the major stakeholders in women's enterprise development — in policymaking, program development, capital, research, and organizational capacity - building — to move forward in the same direction, to not only increase our national competitiveness but to level the economic playing field.

The ultimate result is that it dramatically affects the ability to do long term transformation, dramatically effects GDP growth and economic competitiveness for society.»

The Association specifically stated how ESOPs are in accord with the seven principles outlined by Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R - UT) for comprehensive tax reform — Economic Growth, Fairness, Simplicity, Permanence, Competitiveness, Promoting Savings and Investments, and Revenue Neutrality.

According to the 2015 World Economic Forum Tourism Competitiveness Report, Canada placed a respectable 16th out of 140 countries surveyed for the quality of its air transport infrastructure.

Implementing a BAT should bolster the competitiveness of US firms, eliminate the existing incentive to keep profits offshore, and raise the revenue needed to fund a substantial cut in the statutory corporate income tax rate (currently the highest in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development [OECD]-RRB-.

This builds off of Part Iwhere we discussed the gender disparities in venture capital, and how solving for those issues creates great financial opportunities for investors, as well as assuring our country's economic competitiveness.

At the same time, we urge you to address an equally important challenge in Budget 2018: the need for a comprehensive strategy to promote economic growth, encourage private investment and strengthen competitiveness.

I resisted populist rhetoric that vilified corporations, instead favoring approaches that emphasized accelerating economic growth and competitiveness for the benefit of all.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

TORONTO, March 16, 2016 — MaRS Studio Y is spearheading the inaugural National Youth Leadership and Innovation Strategy Summit, bringing together top young leaders and innovative organizations from across the country to architect the first national plan for engaging youth leaders to strengthen Canada's economic competitiveness.

• «The ferocity about economic competitiveness, its promotion into a standard by which to measure things it can not measure... is resulting in a loss of respect for ordinary work and a soft contempt for ordinary people,» Wieseltier continues.

They have fallen well into television's mold by acquiescing to television's moral bases; air - time will be given or sold to those who succeed most in meeting tele - vision's criteria for attractiveness, competitiveness, and economic ability.

Ulster University in Northern Ireland has been awarded funding of almost $ 400,000 as part of a larger $ 2.6 million research grant to develop new mixing process technologies for milk powder hydration, which aims to significantly enhance the economic competitiveness of the Irish dairy industry.

His economic competitiveness review was criticised for its lack of green credentials with its support for motorway and airport expansion and sympathy for greenbelt development.

Raab argued for, in The Future of Conservatism: Values Revisited, a further round of trade union reform arguing that «Luddite union leaders» block vital reforms needed to boost UK economic competitiveness.

This leads us to the second big problem that Spain faces: The dire need for overarching economic reforms that increase its competitiveness and bring back growth.

Appealing, for example, to those Senators who, while eager to withdraw from Afghanistan and avoid future such «entanglements,» nonetheless remain anxious about the future of American leadership and economic competitiveness, Kerry argued that «deploying diplomats today [to protect the national interest] is much cheaper than deploying troops tomorrow.»

In the Global Competitiveness Report 2011 - 2012, World Economic Forum 2011 it found that the UK ranks 83 out of 142 countries for the compliance burden it places on businesses.

A new approach for our schools by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The CBI report has recognised the important link between high - quality education systems and economic competitiveness.

In Ghana, he said trade facilitation has been enhanced with a 57 % increase of volumes of goods processed at the Customs Technical Service Bureau which will have a very dramatic impact on Ghana's international investment competitiveness with direct impact «on our domestic economic situation, offering up much more job opportunity, and improve living standards for our people.»

«We must pursue the clamour for the southwest regional integration to advance social - economic, political and education relationship for the comparative competitiveness», he added.

Corroborating similar gesture, the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said it is time for all to pursue the clamour for regional integration so as to advance social - economic, political and education relationship for the comparative competitiveness in the southwest.

In a statement, Cuomo said, «These investments are critical to our transportation system and essential for community growth and regional economic competitiveness.»

The comptroller's first - blush analysis focused heavily on how the Trump proposal could affect New York's (mainly downstate) six - figure middle class — but virtually ignored the plan's broader implications for the state's finances and economic competitiveness.

The World Economic Forum places Britain in 140th place for price competitiveness for tourism out of 141 countries and the reduction in the VAT rate to 5 %, as agreed by the Liberal Democrat conference, would increase employment and raise extra revenues for the Government.»

John Redwood, who heads the economic competitiveness group, has broken away from the kindly attendants in white coats who accompany him through public life, and is crying from the rooftops for a commitment to tax cuts.

The pledge mirrors many elements of Cohen's platform, calling on candidates for state Legislature to commit to fundamental reforms necessary to return the state to financial stability and economic competitiveness.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce with a mission of leading the federal economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing American regions for growth and success in the worldwide Economic Development Administration (EDA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce with a mission of leading the federal economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing American regions for growth and success in the worldwide economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing American regions for growth and success in the worldwide economy.

It is the objective that each initiative associated with that environment will advance the educational and research mission of SUNY Polytechnic Institute through the enhancement of research opportunities for faculty, students and staff; to promote the economic development and competitiveness of New York State by encouraging and facilitating the transfer of technology resources to the marketplace; and to enhance the ability of SUNY Polytechnic Institute to attract public and private funds to further research and technology development.

The EDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, supports a federal economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing American regions for growth and success in the worldwide economy.

From the traditional right Cameron enlisted Iain Duncan Smith for the social justice policy group, John Redwood to examine economic competitiveness and Peter Lilley to look at global poverty.

I will continue to push for science and technology research and education because they put our economic recovery on a stronger course; however, we can all do more to publicize the tangible benefits that greater investment in science and technology has on our global competitiveness.

Given the nature of the challenges the country faces in global economic competitiveness, energy, and health, the President will call for the U.S. to surpass its record investment in research and development, set in 1964 at the height of the space race, exceeding three percent of GDP.

This work is part of the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP), which aims to maximize the benefits of exascale — future supercomputers that will be 50 times faster than our nation's most powerful system today — for U.S. economic competitiveness, national security and scientific discovery.

But we believe there should be bipartisan support for the research that is the foundation of innovation and economic competitiveness.

«The bill slashes support for U.S. innovators — scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs pioneering new clean energy technologies that will spur America's long - term economic competitiveness,» he wrote.