Sentences with phrase «force for economic growth»

«I don't think it's perfect and certainly there have been some downsides to globalization, but there isn't any doubt that it's been a positive force for economic growth and U.S. economic growth as a whole.

You have heard the hype on technology transfer as the driving force for economic growth in knowledge - based economies.

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Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

To fully realize the economic benefits of having more women in the labor force, Japan needs to provide incentives for women to seek out more full - time work in high growth areas, he said.

The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»

As one of Michigan's leading corporate citizens, DTE Energy is a force for growth and prosperity in the 450 Michigan communities it serves in a variety of ways, including philanthropy, volunteerism and economic progress.

Economic growth depends largely on the size of the population in the labor force, making the steady wave of baby boomer retirees cause for concern.

Rao, also a fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, spoke of India's current economic growth and the geo - political forces that make India an influential global «swing power.»

Economic growth in Alberta remains positive, even when one accounts for every conceivable indirect outside force on the price of Canadian oil, no matter how tenuous the connection is: potential new Iranian supply, single - industry OPEC nations being forced to reduce output, Greece leaving the Eurozone, Donald Trump surging in the polls, Tom Brady facing suspension, etc..

The Portland Oregonian reported that United Methodist leaders abandoned an attempt to gather signatures for a referendum on video poker because the proposed initiative could have forced tribes to give up their lucrative video games, and the tribes claimed that this was unfair to Native Americans struggling for economic growth.

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

Around the world, governments are emphasizing women's participation in the labor force as a solution for economic growth, gender equality, and poverty reduction.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

Overall, the labor force in New York dropped by 78,000 workers, which some experts say could limit prospects for overall economic growth.

The chancellor will be forced to reveal a grim set of economic forecasts in his first set - piece House of Commons statement, as the independent Office for Budget Responsibility makes its first projections of the impact of Brexit on growth and the public finances.

As chairman of the Education Commission of the States (ECS) at that time, I pushed other governors and corporate CEOs to address the problem with a high - level «Task Force on Education for Economic Growth,» thus establishing the vital link between education and economic growth that has fueled so many of the ensuing efforts to improve schools at the statEconomic Growth,» thus establishing the vital link between education and economic growth that has fueled so many of the ensuing efforts to improve schools at the state Growth,» thus establishing the vital link between education and economic growth that has fueled so many of the ensuing efforts to improve schools at the stateconomic growth that has fueled so many of the ensuing efforts to improve schools at the state growth that has fueled so many of the ensuing efforts to improve schools at the state level.

For the economic model, you need to understand the three main forces that drive most economic activity: 1) trend line productivity growth, 2) the long - term debt cycle and 3) the 5 - 8 business cycle that is driven by the credit cycle.

The slowing global economic growth and deflationary forces are driving overall demand for debt.

Although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a time, the Committee anticipates that policy actions to stabilize financial markets and institutions, fiscal and monetary stimulus, and market forces will support a strengthening of economic growth and a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability.

Although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a time, the Committee continues to anticipate that policy actions to stabilize financial markets and institutions, fiscal and monetary stimulus, and market forces will contribute to a gradual resumption of sustainable economic growth in a context of price stability.

They include: reliance on industry innovation that has been the driving force behind America's energy renaissance — innovation that launched the surge in shale energy production, prompting increased natural gas use and resulting in lower carbon emissions; embracing the successful, free - market approach to energy and economic growth while lowering emissions by basing decisions on sound science; and allowing more opportunities for energy exploration and development.

The idea of economic growth as an unquestioned force for good is ingrained in the American psyche.

In any case the solution for forcing or chaotic triggers is economic growth and economic stability, trade, technological innovation and economic and agricultural productivity.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.

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The internet is effusively praised as having already become the single «most powerful force for globalization, democratization, economic growth and education in history».

WEO - 2017, the International Energy Agency's flagship publication, finds that over the next two decades the global energy system is being reshaped by four major forces: the United States is set to become the undisputed global oil and gas leader; renewables are being deployed rapidly thanks to falling costs; the share of electricity in the energy mix is growing; and China's new economic strategy takes it on a cleaner growth mode, with implications for global energy markets.

As Alex Novarese of Legal Week is right to point out, overall revenue in the UK legal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO providers.

While government ministers and opposition politicians increasingly join forces with work - life balance campaigners and IT businesses to extol the economic, social, and environmental benefits of teleworking it is important not to hype the potential for growth in this kind of flexible work pattern.

Intense demand for newly constructed homes has led to a nine - year sales high in July, meaning something has to give or companies will be forced to turn down future projects as they struggle to keep up with economic growth.

January 5, 2016 Corporate Real Estate Opportunities Grow as ASEAN Becomes a Unified Economic Market, According to CoreNet Global Report Southeast Asia emerges as a major economic force and a driver of global growth accelerating the region's potential for corporate real estate, according a new report from CoreNet Global, the global association for corporate real estate (CRE) and workplace professionals, service providers and economic devEconomic Market, According to CoreNet Global Report Southeast Asia emerges as a major economic force and a driver of global growth accelerating the region's potential for corporate real estate, according a new report from CoreNet Global, the global association for corporate real estate (CRE) and workplace professionals, service providers and economic deveconomic force and a driver of global growth accelerating the region's potential for corporate real estate, according a new report from CoreNet Global, the global association for corporate real estate (CRE) and workplace professionals, service providers and economic deveconomic developers.