Sentences with phrase «forms of economic growth»

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

But in our real world the actual forms of economic growth that are taking place continue to be destructive.

Synopsis: Chinese Communist Mayor Geng Yanbo demolishes 140,000 homes and relocates the people and ancient relics to adopt a clean form of economic growth and tourism.

This publication argues that the Latin American and Caribbean region needs to make the transition in the years to come towards a more sustainable form of development that will preserve its economic, social and natural assets for future generations and leave them with a legacy of a more equal, more socially inclusive, low - carbon form of economic growth.

«The reform of legal education could bring benefits in the form of economic growth, access to justice, and ongoing legal innovation to meet the challenges of the 21st century, as well as reducing the burden of debt on the next generation of legal professionals,» Hadfield says.

«The reform of legal education could bring benefits in the form of economic growth, access to justice, and ongoing legal innovation to meet the challenges of the 21st century, as well as reducing the burden of debt on the next generation of legal professionals.

Not exact matches

I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment.

«I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment,» Wheeler said after the decision was announced Tuesday.

Readers are cautioned that these forward - looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due a variety of factors, including, among other things, that conditions to the closing of the transaction may not be satisfied, the potential impact on the business of Accompany due to the uncertainty about the acquisition, the retention of employees of Accompany and the ability of Cisco to successfully integrate Accompany and to achieve expected benefits, business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry, customer markets and various geographic regions, global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment and other risk factors set forth in Cisco's most recent reports on Form 10 - K and Form 10 - Q.

This latest stimulus is taking the form of negative interest rates, or charging banks to park their cash with the expectation that this will spur lending and economic growth.

The Renaissance Venture Capital Fund was formed with the philosophy that venture capital is important for economic growth and that Michigan and many other major regions are underserved in the amount of venture capital available to fund exciting new ideas and technologies.

With economic growth strengthening around the globe, business leaders are finding it easier to stiff - arm worries over geopolitical conflagrations, cyberattacks, climate change - related events and the rest of the lineup of potentially destabilizing calamities that form part of the Trump era.

Second, while growth has been disappointing in both developed and emerging markets, financial markets remain hopeful that better economic data will emerge in the second half of 2013 and 2014, especially in the US and Japan, with the UK and the eurozone bottoming out and most emerging markets returning to form.

Thus far the compromise has taken the form of a modest modification of the aim at economic growth.

The first step in redirecting the economy toward sustainable economic well - being and away from damaging forms of growth is to stop taking new steps directed toward destructive growth.

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A third reason for questioning economic growth is that as a means to an end, green republicans focus on the threshold beyond which the pursuit of economic growth does not add to human flourishing, or a healthy democratic polity, and associated forms of active citizenship and the civic fabric of a free society.

Upper East Regional Minister Rockson Bukari said the last time a census of agriculture conducted in Ghana was in 1985, adding that, government's quest for another census formed part of Akufo Addo's vision of making Agric the backbone of economic growth in the country.

Commissioned by the Labour Party, many of the report's ideas will form part of their long - term plans for economic growth, should May 2015 see the election of a Labour government.

However, continuing sluggish economic growth and declines in mining and heavy industry weakened his base of support and, although Baldwin was supportive of Labour politicians forming minority governments at Westminster, his government also saw the General Strike in 1926 and the 1927 Trades Disputes Act to curb the powers of trade unions.

Commenting on the progress being made on the passage of key bills, the Chairman of the Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi said the «Senate has been on a steady march to complete passage of the bills which forms our economic growth package before the end of the year.

The web of complements to a good forms a mutually self - reinforcing and cross-reinforcing subnetwork that enhances its own economic growth.

In this, the twenty - first century, innovations in science and technology form the primary engines of economic growth.

Economists Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann concluded that the two tests measure «a common dimension of skills,» and that the scores can be aggregated to form a single national - level indicator of cognitive ability predicting economic growth.6 Psychologist Heiner Rindermann referred to that common dimension as a «g - factor,» standing for general intelligence.

The introduction of new products and production methods by entrepreneurs is an important form of competition and is a source of technological progress and economic growth.

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Shailesh Kshatriya, director of Canadian strategies at Russell Investments Canada, notes both are promising fiscal stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending that should be good news for economic growth.

I know of no form of economic organization based on a division of labor, from unfettered laissez - faire to oppressive central planning, that has succeeded in achieving both maximum sustainable economic growth and permanent stability.

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Not until the middle of the 1960's did a period of sustained peace come about here and since then, the people of the island have been enjoying economic dividends in the form of rapid growth and prosperity unprecedented in Indonesia.

By combining contemporary imagery with ancient sculptural forms, Harris comments on the growing pains of China's rapid economic growth.

Therefore given resource limit issues, we can not escape some level of simplification as well in the meantime, in the form of reduced consumption and reduced rates of economic growth.

However, there are certainly forms of «economic activity» that don't require either human population growth, or increased use of physical resources.

That neither republics nor any form of current economic systems can remain stable without growth is self - evident.

The government attributes this to economic restructuring in China, as the country tries to replace its rapid boom with a more sustainable form of growth.

These responses and others form the foundation for an energy action agenda — action that harnesses the transformative power of America's domestic energy renaissance for job creation, economic growth, increased security and climate / environmental progress.

From pursuing aggressive Global clean energy goals to restoring natural areas as a form of economic stimulus, there is no doubt that there is much work to be done which would contribute to economic growth and our mutual well - being.

Without such payments — either in the form of revenues or the transfer of environmentally benign technology — it is unrealistic to expect the LDCs to take any action which could significantly reduce their potential for economic growth.

Concurrently, energy efficiency is reducing demand for energy and holds the potential to improve economic growth while reducing harmful environmental effects of all forms of energy production.

The consultation document starts off well, in my view, with this statement: «Our legal system is a form of infrastructure which is as indispensible to economic growth as transport or energy networks.»

The answer has arrived in the form of cryptocurrency payments — a way to achieve economic growth, job creation, and wealth accumulation.

An increase of distribution centers allows for more goods to reach those in smaller markets in a timely fashion, as well as creates economic growth in the form of jobs to those areas.