Sentences with phrase «further policy measures»

The Japanese economy continued to weaken in the first half of 1998, prompting the announcement of further policy measures by the Japanese government.

The ongoing US recovery, the new US administration's decision to restart the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline and other energy projects, and further policy measures, including tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending, could boost both demand and business confidence, igniting animal spirits and leading to an acceleration in the rates of investment, firm creation and innovation.

Not exact matches

The unpredictability of the Trump administration in the U.S. may further encourage the Canadian government to take a more measured approach to tax policy.

The report said that to ensure a lasting job recovery, strategies were needed that combined short - term measures (job - friendly macroeconomic and labor market policies) with «further action» to tackle long - standing imbalances.

Sondhi noted that while the pace of starts has held up so far this year, TD expects that cooling demand in the face of restrictive policy measures and higher rates will ultimately slow starts going forward.

Spring time tends to be the busiest for home buyers and sellers in Metro Vancouver, said Oudil, adding the board will wait to see how they react to taxes and other policy measures the B.C. provincial and federal governments introduced so far in 2018.

Relying upon further macroprudential policy tools to contain housing risks in a timely manner is set against the mixed success of such measures to date.

ECB policy makers are likely to next week debate restarting their covered - bond purchases along with further measures to ease monetary conditions.

The government came prepared to engage directly on the patent trolling issue, going so far as to identify several potential policy measures.

To be sure, there were many admirable statements confessing how far short the churches have fallen from measuring up to the Christian ideal and calling for equal treatment of all races in policies having to do with immigration, citizenship and economic opportunity.

The European Commission says it will increase its $ 60m Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget by a further $ 30m to ease market difficulties expected as a result of Russian measures against some European agricultural products.

(a) Implement and / or further elaborate policies and measures in accordance with its national circumstances, such as:

Finally, we urge the Akufo Addo government to ensure the completion and full implementation of a number of policy and legislative measures aimed at further protecting the interests of Ghanaian workers.

As part of its policy to appease the Taliban and their sympathisers in the Afghan parliament, the Afghan government has in recent years adopted a number of controversial legal measures that narrow down the space for women's rights rather than expanding it further.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

The suit is in response to Ben Carson and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announcing that it would delay an Obama - era anti-segregation measure known as the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which was enacted in 2015 to combat discrimination in housing policy.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Senate Democrats stepped further away Tuesday from Governor Andrew Cuomo by introducing a package of measures they said would fix education policy changes included in the state budget.

If we take the average position of the general population on a scale ranging from (0) European Unification has gone too far, to (10) European Unification has not gone far enough, we find that the average position of the electorate is closest to the Conservative Party (measured by where survey respondents think the major parties» policies are on the same scale).

More recently, the study of happiness furthered the debate in public policy, as many governments brought up the necessity for new measures of social progress.

Policy Advisor to the NPP campaign, Boakye Agyarko who made the claim further chided the NDC for not demonstrating «any measure of control» in addressing power challenges in the country.

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

New York has officially become the last state in the nation to adopt no - fault divorce following the governor's signature of a measure that will permit couples to separate by mutual consent, signaling a major policy shift that has far - reaching implications for both families and attorneys.

Her votes against major sections of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 state budgets — omnibus bills that combined popular legislation with controversial policy and basic funding measures — may provide further ammunition for the opposition, according to Sherrill.

Such well - intentioned policies that do not integrate mitigation measures ensure that poor neighborhoods will be flooded again and forced further into poverty.

The # 3 million investment will also include funding to further develop the Welsh Government's policy for more able and talented learners, ensuring that any future measures are based on the most reliable evidence.

According to analysis by SchoolsWeek, a large majority of the councils likely to be targeted by the policy are run by Labour administrations, which has lead to further criticism of the measure.

«Now that there has been a change to the policy objective of forced academisation, the sugary drinks levy would command far greater public support if every penny of it was hypothecated to public health measures to support children.»

Obama's «Race to the Top» policy — the brainchild of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the former «CEO» of Chicago Public Schools — further codifies high - stakes testing by allocating scarce federal resources to those states most aggressively implementing these so - called accountability measures.

Obama has joined the three presidents preceding him in favoring a far different policy of school improvement than that epitomized by Title I. Instead of additional dollars for extra services for children, the creation of academic standards and tests to measure achievement is seen as the way to increase the quality of American schools, especially that of schools with concentrations of low - income children.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

We'll wait to see how they react to the taxes and other policy measures that our provincial and federal governments have introduced so far this year,» Oudil said.

The Fed has far more control over rates on the way down than on the way up — upward spikes can happen far faster than policy measures can keep up with.

A functioning market would make this more apparent (e.g., if the market price is equal to the IPCC midpoint scenario), of course, but it appears to me that in the debate motivated by James so far that there is no expectation that emissions reductions policies will have a discernable effect on the climate (as measured by GAT) by 2030 (the terminal point of the bet).

This is the only thing I'd like to say about religion, and I don't think it's too far off the rails: Any strategy for communicating the science to the public — let alone any strategy for promoting policy measures — needs to carefully analyze different segments of public opinion and look for ways they can be won over to your point of view, rather than needlessly alienated from it.

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It is designed to reduce emissions in six provinces, working with provincial, district and commune authorities, local communities and the private sector, with the objective to «enhance Viet Nam's ability to benefit from future results - based payments for REDD + and undertake transformational changes in the forestry sector», with a focus on «the implementation of national policies, measures and national strategies or action plans that could involve further capacity - building, technology development and transfer and results - based demonstration activities».

However, the projected development beyond 2020 is only compatible with the IEA alternative policy scenario in which coal production is constrained by climate policy measures while the IEA reference scenario assumes further increasing coal consumption (and production) until at least 2030.

The climate wars will no doubt continue between extremes on both sides, but that should not delay a far - larger set of pragmatic Americans from embracing policies and measures that attract widespread agreement, are adjustable over time, incremental in their implementation, and provide positive feedbacks for further action.

Adaptation: Adaptation measures taken thus far in Nigeria have centered around educational initiatives, but the country still lacks a federal oversight body for the purpose of coordinating research and policy.

Shell's own «review of the scientific uncertainty and the evolution of energy systems indicates that policies to curb greenhouse gases beyond «no regrets» measures could be premature, divert economic resources from more pressing needs and further distort markets,» a February 1995 management brief advised.

The text decides (without brackets) in paragraph 7 that REDD - plus will occur in three phases and acknowledges sub-national strategies and results based demonstration activities as part of those strategies «beginning with the development of national strategies or action plans, policies and measures and capacity building, followed by the implementation of national policies and measures, and national strategies or actions plans and, as appropriate, sub national strategies, that could involve further capacity building, technology transfer and results based demonstration activities, and evolving into results - based actions.»

The promotion and implementation of national strategies or action plans, policies and measures and capacity building, followed by the implementation of national policies and measures, and national strategies or actions plans and, as appropriate, sub national strategies, that could involve further capacity building, technology transfer and results based demonstration activities, and evolving into results based actions.

A new analysis from the Breakthrough Institute shows how the growing expert consensus that energy efficiency rebound is real and significant substantially undercuts RMI's projected gains from efficiency measures and makes their proposals of limited relevance as far as climate policy is concerned.

It further presents the concept of regulation — or regulatory oversight — in terms of its impacts on energy efficiency and shows how regulation and policy measures can be used to encourage increased levels of energy efficiency in the energy system.

It further presents the concept and benefits of industrial energy efficiency and provides an overview of policy measures that promote them.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

The policy measures planned and taken are by far not enough.

In its report the IPCC emphasises the futility of subsidies for renewable energy parallel to an emissions trading system: «The addition of a CO2 reduction policy to a second policy does not necessarily lead to greater CO2 reductions,» it says in a literal translation of the IPCC's Technical Summary: «In an emissions trading scheme with a sufficiently stringent cap other measures such as subsidising renewable energy have no further influence on total CO2 emissions.»

When policies are driven by «look to deny» cost - cutting rather than legal principles, and «medicalized» decision - making blames age or pre-existing conditions rather than the impact of a work - related cause, our system seems increasingly to be run on the private insurance model — far from Meredith's call for «full justice, no half - measures».

Hopefully the relatively small number of offensive tweets received by that social media site can be further reduced, if not totally eliminated, by lesser measures such as the ones described above and the development of a TTC social media policy.