Sentences with phrase «global economic competitiveness»

The U.S. needs high - speed rail transportation to support its mobility needs and global economic competitiveness.

Develops designs for more economically efficient transportation programs and policies as it relates to FASTLANE grants, to generate national or regional economic benefits and an increase in the global economic competitiveness of the United States.

Over time, the United States» public education system has evolved from a fundamentally locally - driven enterprise to one that reflects broader goals of ensuring equality of opportunity for individuals and the country's global economic competitiveness.

Clearly, this ranking proved nothing about global economic competitiveness or future economic growth.

«It is the key to a vibrant middle class, strong national security and our global economic competitiveness.

The urgency of the state's need to improve its national and global economic competitiveness has meant an intense focus on STEM education.

The combination of sensitive schools and an overarching focus on education as a tool solely to promote global economic competitiveness has seemingly deemphasized the need for civic and moral education in classrooms, according to Levinson.

Given the nature of the challenges the country faces in global economic competitiveness, energy, and health, the President will call for the U.S. to surpass its record investment in research and development, set in 1964 at the height of the space race, exceeding three percent of GDP.

«This harmonization should facilitate the development by manufacturers in both countries of world - class front - line workers with the skills needed able to meet the dual challenges of global economic competitiveness and accelerating technological change.»

Not exact matches

Greece ranks 87th out of 137 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, behind Tajikistan and Ukraine.

America's road network, which includes its bridges, was ranked third among the largest advanced economies by company executives, behind Japan and France but superior to those of Germany, Britain, Canada and Italy, according to the World Economic Forum's latest global competitiveness report.

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

Just this week, Will Carty, manager of public policy for Twitter, wrote a blog post praising reclassification as «critical to American economic aspirations and our nation's global competitiveness» with «important implications for freedom of expression.»

Through global, confidential and collaborative peer - learning groups, the WPO accelerates business growth, enhances competitiveness, and promotes economic security.

This different focus has been associated with significant success in economic and social terms, and contributed to these countries» advancement in their global level of competitiveness.

«Perennial rail service challenges have impacted our competitiveness, our national supply chain's long - term economic sustainability and Canada's global reputation as a trading nation,» the company wrote in its briefing to the committee reviewing Bill C - 49, the government's modernization of the Transportation Act.

The Canada-U.S. economic relationship is increasingly about making things together and improving our global competitiveness.

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

Milwaukee is also home to the international headquarters of six Fortune 500 companies and was recently selected to join the Global Cities Initiative as a result of its commitment to promote global trade and economic competitivGlobal Cities Initiative as a result of its commitment to promote global trade and economic competitivglobal trade and economic competitiveness.

The «Beyond the Border» and Regulatory Cooperation action plans promise to create an even more robust economic relationship and strengthen our global competitiveness to the benefit of our citizens on both sides of the border.

Jennifer facilitates the contribution of the Business Council of Australia's CEO members across a policy agenda that includes economic policy and competitiveness; regulation; infrastructure and sustainable growth; labour market, skills and education; engagement with Indigenous Australians, global engagement; healthcare policy; and innovation.

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).

In the Global Competitiveness Report 2011 - 2012, World Economic Forum 2011 it found that the UK ranks 83 out of 142 countries for the compliance burden it places on businesses.

From the traditional right Cameron enlisted Iain Duncan Smith for the social justice policy group, John Redwood to examine economic competitiveness and Peter Lilley to look at global poverty.

I will continue to push for science and technology research and education because they put our economic recovery on a stronger course; however, we can all do more to publicize the tangible benefits that greater investment in science and technology has on our global competitiveness.

Like the bipartisan group of Members of Congress who support the Golden Goose Award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

Like the bipartisan group of members of Congress who support the award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

Stringent IP protection and enforcement is a pillar of Singapore's successful startup scene, contributing to the nation ranking third on the World Economic Forum's 2017 - 2018 Global Competitiveness Index.

In addition, in some nations education goals have focused very narrowly on the development of skills that are presumed to contribute to national economic competitiveness, the formation of national identity, and local relevance, without sufficient attention to the development of the skills that contribute to effective citizenship and global citizenship.

«Our economic productivity and global competitiveness are threatened by an inadequate public education.»

As colleagues and I have documented on numerous occasions, rankings on international tests do not relate to international indicators of economic strength, global competitiveness, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, or any other economic indicators that reflect a strong economy (e.g., Tienken, 2008; Tienken & Mullen, 2014).

Pickler noted that strong public schools are essential to America's economic stability and global competitiveness and encouraged Congress to develop a plan to protect the nation's educational investment.

The E3 Alliance was formed as a collaborative effort of Austin Community College (ACC), the Austin Area Research Organization (AARO), the University of Texas and others to initiate a regional effort to increase global competitiveness, economic vitality and overall quality of life for Central Texas by aligning our education systems to better fulfill the potential of every citizen.

Students should pay close attention to current events regarding educational reform, the environment and clean technology, economic stimulation, global competitiveness, etc..

Investing in young children is likely to have enormous positive effects on the U.S. economy by increasing economic growth, improving the skills of the workforce, reducing poverty, and strengthening U.S. global competitiveness.

Now that the federal government is fully operational again, it is imperative that Congress make the strategic investments in education to help close achievement gaps and equip all students with the knowledge and skills they need to assure our country's economic competitiveness and global leadership for years to come.»

Partnerships between states and railroads are central to the Obama Administration's vision for a national high - speed rail program, which will allow America to win the future by creating construction and manufacturing jobs here in the U.S., while promoting future economic growth and global competitiveness.

The World Economic Forum released their Global Competitiveness Report yesterday and it offers a comprehensive view of individual country risk / reward.

The Global Competitiveness Index, published annually by the World Economic Forum, ranks around 140 countries by several factors deemed responsible for the long - term competitivenCompetitiveness Index, published annually by the World Economic Forum, ranks around 140 countries by several factors deemed responsible for the long - term competitivenesscompetitiveness of nations.

But to seize it, we have to make the case to the American people that these new investments are what's required to free us from oil, restore our economic competitiveness, and deal with global warming.

«The U.S. should approve this pipeline to utilize this resource to enhance our energy and national security, preserve our global competitiveness, and maintain our role as a world economic leader.»

Green freight refers to the efforts of the freight sector to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants and improve fuel efficiency across the global supply chain while maintaining competitiveness and economic growth.

This morning, at the Council on Competitiveness National Energy Summit, Georgetown University President John DeGioia appeared on a panel on «the Global Economic Development Opportunity».

The reason wind and solar are now rapidly eclipsing global nuclear capacity is due to simple economic competitiveness alone.

But unless the U.S. quickly improves its economic competitiveness, our global leadership will be severely damaged.

The impact of globalisation and the emergence of knowledge - based economies creates a formidable challenge for them in their endeavour to maintain and enhance the competitiveness of their cities by achieving a flexible, adaptable and diverse local economic structure, which would better position their cities faced with global competition.

The 2000 - Watt Society can get us there: it's a proven framework based on global equality + local economic benefits for our neighborhood such as increased competitiveness, independence and long - term resilience.

Hong Kong is also proud of its judicial independence (it is the leading Asian jurisdiction in this regard, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2017 - 2018), although Mr Justice Fok, Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Court of Appeal, felt driven to provide a strong assertion and defence of the judiciary's independence during the UNCITRAL Asia - Pacific Judicial Summit, following allegations by some commentators that the judiciary had compromised its independence in respect of certain well - publicised cases (not connected with arbitration).

The 2015 - 2016 World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report said Canada's «insufficient capacity to innovate» is the most problematic factor for doing business here.

According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2016 - 2017, Singapore is ranked the most transparent and least corrupt country out of 138 economies.