Sentences with phrase «global crisis»

The current global crisis of depressive illness has a simple root cause: a failure of treatment.

The current global crisis results from believing borrowing could sustainably restore the demand lost through low real wages.

Until supplies are tighter, or one of our many global crises comes to a head and causes an oil price spike, the Canadian economy can't expect much from their energy sector.

Powerful trends point to a possible global crisis around the year 2020.

Most accounts of our contemporary global crises such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, focus on one area, or another, to the exclusion of others.

The 2007 - 08 crisis may well be the first global crisis that has occurred in a period of credible fiat currency.

While hunger is the most visible part of this quiet global crisis, it is certainly not the only impact.

«This is an unprecedented global crisis,» he said.

But, it is becoming very apparent that we have to focus on prevention to avoid a full - blown global crisis.

Civil society faces a generational opportunity to prove its value as a source of alternatives at a time of profound global crisis.

However, in spite of this potential global crisis, some investors see this as an opportunity for investing in dividend stocks.

I can easily imagine a chain of events leading a sustained global crisis.

It intensifies these affects and creates a space of reflection and a heterogeneous perceptual field that is simultaneously a close - range haptic space of proximity, on the backdrop of the recent mass media rhetoric announcing a new global crisis in which the world has never been closer to a New Cold War.

ReliefWeb has been the leading online source for reliable and timely humanitarian information on global crises and disasters since 1996.

She should know: she works there as an interpreter and sees how the power - brokering halls of the U.N. avert global crises daily.

Now a thriving local startup, Pipeguard, which was founded by a small team of MIT students, could keep as much as 20 percent of the world's drinking water supply from getting lost — and prevent global crises like the catastrophic water shortage in South Africa.

Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, explains why the non-profit will add civil disobedience to its roster of tactics in an effort to curtail the «global crisis unfolding before our eyes.»

The market's recent tribulations have been driven by such global crises as the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the U.S. - led airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and, more recently, the widespread pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

And that's very unfortunate because if you look at the last global crisis, the ozone layer, every single country met in Canada and agreed to stop CFC gasses.

The US dollar is often seen as a safe investment, and it's often purchased more aggressively during global crises.

CCTV interviews EIA's Director of Forest Campaigns, Kate Horner, in a discussion of the growing global crisis of illegal logging that threatens our world's forests and the people who depend upon them.

A combination of bond - buying programs by central banks, negative - and zero - interest - rate policies, and continued fears that a new global crisis may be around the corner (a hard path to Brexit being the latest source of such concern) have held the pedal down on the flight to safety.

Given our commitment and long history in the travel assistance space, Generali Global Assistance has been on the front lines of numerous global crisis and has the proven ability and resources to handle large - scale events.

I know it will take massive change for us as a species to survive let alone thrive in the converging global crisis around climate, food, water, fuel and the economy.

Famines in Africa, cyclones, war, squalid refugee camps: such global crises are turned into media dramas.

To draw attention to the worsening global crisis — and perhaps to ease the sting of growing public concern surrounding its use of genetically - modified ingredients and other unfun exposure — General Mills Canada has strategically yanked Buzz, its iconic mascot.

West can defy global crisis, says Premier Cashed - up companies are forming a «queue at the door» of Western Australia despite the global financial crisis as they try to snare some upside in the downturn, according to Premier Colin Barnett.

Finance experts from the euro zone have weighed in on comments made by Wolfgang Schaeuble, after the German finance minister warned that debt and liquidity problems could spark the next global crisis.

Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.

To Selden, 27, this is energizing, if not quite welcome, because it suggests that he and the rest of his seven - person team are on the right track, developing a product that could go a long way toward solving one looming global crisis and maybe help ameliorate a few more.

Likewise, the increase can be seen as an acknowledgment among investors that corporations are failing to address the several global crises that threaten the fabric of society as we have experienced it thus far.

Fears over a possible UK recession further brought the pound to a 31 - year low — a larger drop than during the financial global crisis of 2008.

Leading progressive academic economist Steve Keen gained international recognition after he successfully predicted the 2007 global crisis using an alternative macro-economic model built on the pioneering work of Hyman Minsky and Wynne Godley.

It's not as if the educated, chattering - class response to the hydra - headed global crisis has been very coherent either.

These two just won't stop trying to handle dramatized global crises.

What asset is easy to liquefy (even in case of severe local crisis) but immune to local hyperinflation and strong against global crises, plus doesn't lose value over time, or at least loses it slower than cash?

(See Taiwan shelter director suicide illustrates global crisis and Taiwan adopts plan to become no - kill nation by 2017.)

Our culture's history of energy / resource consumption and waste production has laid the groundwork for some Global - American Super-Heroes who are willing, ready and able to help manage / prevent the various, emergent global crises our culture's helped generate.

The Global Environmental Change Programmes (DIVERSITAS, International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change and World Climate Research Programme) with the International Council for Science convened the Planet Under Pressure: New Knowledge Towards Solutions conference to assess the state of the planet and explore solutions to impending global crises.

In my view the probability distribution of energy future is heavily skewed towards global crises, shortages and skyrocketing prices.

A position which should lead an enquiring mind to ask whether the Heartland Institute is ready to accept a naturally occurring global crisis exists.

In fact, we could be looking at a «silent global crisis» — one that is undermining food production and water availability, not to mention responsible for 30 percent of greenhouse

However, in light of climate change and other global crises, it might not be wise to look to Las Vegas and Dubai's development models for inspiration.