Sentences with phrase «for other sectors of the economy»

«The governor threatens to keep doing wage boards for every other sector of the economy,» O'Mara said.
They also looked at the implications of this growth for other sectors of the economy and for the EU emissions trading system (ETS).

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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.
But as the economy has recovered, and in particular as the technology sector has roared ahead of other industries, its need for hiring specialty workers has brought the problem into starker definition.
The value of the Internet economy may be understated in GDP calculations, for example, but the omission is offset by artificial inflations in other sectors like financial services, which ballooned in the run - up to 2008 thanks to risky, unsustainable products like mortgage - backed securities.
In other words, people have to pay either so much debt or they have to have forced saving, like pension fund saving, that the economy is shrunk for financial reasons, for putting more and more of its money out of the real economy of goods and services into the financial sector.
Canada's resource sector continues to adjust to lower prices for oil and other commodities, with some spillover to the rest of the economy.
Data from the Institute for Supply Management, along with other statistics, suggest the US economy continues to be driven by the services sector, whereas growth in manufacturing (outside the buoyant auto sector) showed signs of slowing in August, possibly due to dollar strength and weakening economic prospects outside the United States.
As Director of Operations at the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Jason believes blockchain and digital asset technology can have a profound impact financial and other sectors of the world economy for the better.
As Director of the Business / Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Isabelle Duchaine leads BHER's external communications and several other initiatives that support its goals of increasing employment opportunities for young Canadians, boosting private sector and post-secondary research collaborations and helping businesses adapt to the economy of the future.
Other things equal, the appreciation represents a tightening of financial conditions for firms in the traded sector of the economy, but it has occurred against the backdrop of a steady rise in the terms of trade and, over recent months, a brighter outlook for the world economy.
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).
Earlier this year, then - Environment Minister Peter Kent said that, «significant work remains (to meet our targets),» and that, «(the Conservative Government) intends to continue to develop performance standards for other major sectors of the economy
By the same token, any regulation which seeks, on any grounds other than national security, to reserve any sector of the economy for local investors will be a violation of the treaty.
This makes the UK market more important to the Irish agri - food sector than is the case for other sectors of the Irish economy.
But different varieties of capitalism generate comparative advantages for different high value added sectors: as we have seen, high risk high innovation financial sectors are located in Liberal Market Economies (as well as many other business service sectors, commercial law, and also biotech, blockbuster software, and radical innovation in electronics).
He called on other leaders in all tiers of government in Nigeria to stop relying on the failed oils sector and seek for means to sustain their economy.
«For the avoidance of doubt, we need to state it again that Dr. Ayeni is a law abiding and patriotic entrepreneur who continues to contribute to the growth of this economy and who, through business acumen and initiatives, continues to create employment opportunities to hundreds of Nigerians in the finance, telecommunications, oil and gas, maritime and real estate sectors, among others, of our economy.
Other European countries have reduced the rate of VAT for the home improvement market in order to tackle the informal economy and create new jobs and growth in this important economic sector.
As is stipulated in Section 3 of the Ghana International Trade Commission Act, 2016 (Act 926), GITC is, amongst others, to investigate and adjudicate on complaints by domestic producers relating to dumping, subsidisation and import upsurges; adjudicate on complaints by importers relating to customs valuation; and recommend tariff levels to Government for specific sectors of the economy.
The fact that agric's contribution to the GDP is not what it used to be in the past, does not mean that it is declining, it simply means that other sectors of the economy are also doing well; which is good for the economy and normal for every developing and developed country,» he said.
McDonnell is not arguing for «nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy» or other nostrums from the 1980s, but for a «mixed economy of public and social enterprise... a private sector with a long - term private business commitment» and a national investment bank channeling # 500 million into the productive economy.
According to him, Jonathan directed the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Okonjo - Iweala, to work along with other relevant stakeholders both in public and private sector including international consultants to come up with what «we believe should be the comparative template about cost of projects particularly civil engineering projects including supply executed in the country to address criticisms on the cost of projects».
Speaking at a Breakfast Business Meeting hosted by the Mauritius Minister for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade in collaboration with the Board of Investment of Mauritius, Dr. Bawumia emphasized the NPP government's determination to make the private sector a major player in Ghana's economy, and called on Mauritian and other businesses to take advantage of the pro-business policies announced in the budget.
That legislation, considered watered down by de Blasio and other more liberal members of the City Council, would have only applied to businesses with 15 or more employees, and included exemptions for certain sectors, like manufacturing, and implementation delays in the event of a slowing economy.
He noted that when the government saw the situation on ground, labour was invited for dialogue as continued borrowing to pay salaries will not only be unsustainable, but also a let down to the other sectors of the economy begging for attention.
In it they wrote that policymakers, regulators, financial and academic institutions, among others, as well as the industries themselves can be structurally adverse to innovation — a posture that is blocking ingenuity and technological advances and stunting economic growth in sectors that account for at least 50 % of the U.S. economy.
A blue - ribbon panel has recommended creating a secure, digital portal for researchers to study the impact of U.S. government spending on health care, education, housing, labor markets, and other sectors of the economy.
For one thing, so many of the jobs in the United States and other advanced economies are in the service sector, and involve interacting with other people.
The Air Transport Action Group estimated the global economic impact of air transport at over $ 1 trillion in 1994, accounting for 24 million jobs — 3.3 million employed by the industry, 7.4 million by related industries, and 13.3 million induced in other sectors of the economy.
(I was not able to find index data for the other four sectors — industrials, consumer discretionary, telecom and health care — but none of these make up more than 6 % of the economy.)
In general they have rather inelastic demand compared to other sectors of the economy and for the companies with strong brands they have excellent pricing power.
Today Belize's fishing industry is a major productive sector of the economy, contributing US$ 10.7 million annually in revenue from seafood exports and providing jobs and other benefits for an estimated 15,000 Belizeans.
For our entire state's economy to reach reductions of 80 % below 1990 levels by 2050, as recommended by the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group, our electricity sector must achieve even deeper reductions, even as we electrify other sectors that currently rely on fossil fuels.
The sector not only accounts for almost a third of U.S. GHG emissions, but the sector is also critical to achieving energy efficiency in other sectors of the economy since industry manufactures the clean energy products needed to realize the savings.»
But Canada is further ahead on implementing the actions required to address climate change that will provide a long - term sustainable future for wind energy development by looking beyond wind energy's role in the electricity grid to its role (with other renewable energies) as a substitute for fossil fuels in other sectors of the economy where most of our greenhouse gas emissions are produced.
In fact, the buildings we see in our communities every day — offices, hospitals, schools, supermarkets, factories, and more — account for nearly half of all energy consumption in the United States at a cost of over $ 200 billion per year, more than any other sector of the economy.
Under a sectoral approach, cap - and - trade would be used for some sectors, but other approaches would be used for other parts of the economy.
New research published today (Wednesday 1 June 2005) by Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and carried out by the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, shows that unless the EU and the UK Government takes action to reduce the growth in aviation emissions the industry's emissions will wipe out all the savings that other sectors of the economy could make.
The ecosystem has a central role in the economy, including providing sources of food for people and the region's other inhabitants, and cooling water for the energy sector.
No matter how the state initiatives fare in practice, the United States can now boast to other countries that it's regulating the two sectors of the economy most responsible for carbon pollution: electricity and transportation.
Because CCS technology like that deployed at Petra Nova can be adapted for CCS at other industrial sources of CO2, projects like Petra Nova can generate valuable lessons that help us reduce costs, develop fair environmental and safety regulations, and increase investor experience for CCS projects in all sectors of the economy in the future.
In other words, while we TreeHuggers might all love to see a universal carbon price implemented tomorrow, we might be better off laying the ground work with support of specific industries and sectors of the economy that will later generate political will for more wholesale change.
Except of course for the fossil fuel corporations, who will see their hundreds of billions of dollars in profits shift to other sectors of the economy.
Unfortunately, looking for inspiration from within the profession can, with notable exceptions, be relatively unrewarding for the simple reason that in contrast with most other sectors of the economy (retail, manufacturing, energy, shipping, pharmaceutical, hospitality, aviation, etc.) we are comparatively unsophisticated and have a lot of catching up to do.
The strong economy of Baton Rouge, which draws from the petrochemical industry, manufacturing, health care, education and other sectors, makes this city a favorable environment for starting a business or pursuing an advanced education.
The way forward for other sectors of China's bitcoin economy will be interesting.
The futuristic phenomenon is becoming a must - have for industrial, commercial, agricultural, financial and other sectors of the economy.
«Other sectors of the economy have allowed for diversity so we can better weather the storm of low oil prices,» says Little.
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