Sentences with phrase «government economic figures»

This would seem to explain the obsession with things like «whisper earnings numbers», channel checking at retailers, networking with experts in the field to glean changes in sales trends or competitive balance or reactions to government economic figures.

Not exact matches

If real GDP were to increase at 10.3 % instead of 2.5 % in 2015, then the government should receive, at a minimum, an extra $ 6.6 billion in tax revenue thanks to economic growth (this calculation assumes that nominal GDP grows at the same proportion as real GDP; it is more likely that nominal GDP would rise even higher as such quick economic growth would be inflationary, pushing that $ 6.6 billion figure even higher).

Debt has grown 30 % since the end of 2010 alone, after a huge government stimulus package had already boosted the figure, as officials struggled to meet economic growth targets in 2014 and 2015.

Still, China's economy has picked up for now: Capital Economics approximates China's real economic growth instead of relying on the government's quarterly figures, which are widely thought to be manipulated.

London - based Capital Economics, a think tank, has a proprietary indicator called China Activity Proxy that tries to track Chinese economic growth in order to provide an alternative to the government figures, which many observers distrust.

Buried in the federal government's recent Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections are figures showing the Harper government is set to squeeze federal government's role to the smallest it has been in seventy years.

OTTAWA — Government House Leader Peter Van Loan is using the return of Parliament to boast about the Conservatives» economic track record — but OECD figures cast a small doubt over his claim that Canada tops the G7 in job creation.

US government figures show exports to Iran from 2001 to 2007 totalling $ 546m, despite economic sactions.

In the presence of the authorities and distinguished figures, the Basque Government's Councillor for Economic Development and Infrastructure, Arantxa Tapia, awarded the Colombian chef Leonor Espinosa with the prize for her work within Funleo, a «Gastronomy for Development» foundation that aims to restore and promote the ancestral knowledge of communities, especially indigenous and afro - Colombian populations.

«This compares to an upwardly revised figure of 3.0 per cent growth in the previous twelve months when government policies were supporting rather than undermining the economic recovery.»

«Under the Prime Minister's watch, 3.7 million children in the UK are now living in poverty, a figure set to rise by 600,000 over the next two years, as a result of the Government's continuation of its economic and social policies.

The IMF, which concluded its mission to the island last March, for the most part confirmed the government's economic growth figures, and stated that the banking sector was «in good health» and enjoyed high capitalization rates on average.

With the figures on economic growth and employment on the rise, they will spend the next five weeks hammering out the simplistic but powerful message that the economy is safe in their hands and that a Labour government would bring chaos.

The Economic Confidential has been at the forefront of dishing out Federation Account allocations figures of all tiers of government for the benefit of Nigerians in the last decade.

This is not because politicians should be expected to regurgitate every economic fact and figure, it is more because Labour wants to be seen as the government - in - waiting.

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

Official government figures show migration increasing the UK's output by # 4 billion and making up ten to 15 per cent of Britain's economic growth.

The latest GDP figures, albeit provisional, are expected to serve as an encouragement to government of a rebound in economic activities, as Finance Minister Seth Terkper in June last year announced to Parliament that government had revised its expectation of economic growth for 2015 from 4.1 percent to 3.5 percent.

The figures do little to settle the argument over the government's economic agenda.

Chris Keates: «If, as expected, the figures show that child poverty levels have risen yet again, this is a shameful indictment of the economic and social policies of the Coalition Government.

But with economic figures not exactly helping the Labour's leader previous mantra that the government's economic plans were a shambles, his latest attack is to attack the government for its complacency.

Fayose said, «The reality is that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government has destroyed the economy within eight months in power and rather than look for solutions to the problems facing Nigeria, Lai Mohammed and his cohorts are branding bogus figures about stolen money just to cover up their lack of solution to the country's economic problems.»

Ed Balls has accused the Chancellor of being in denial about the economic perils facing Britain after US growth figures posed fresh questions about the Government's austerity measures.

«The World Bank figures are there for all to see, our economic growth rate today is at a much slower pace than it was 3 years back, agreed that the present government is doing a good job at diversifying the economy.»

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Finance Minister Ofori Atta and Vice President Bawumia are key figures in the government's economic management team

Rising unemployment figures were another sign «of the economic mistakes of the past decade» and said no government in modern times had been left with «such a terrible economic inheritance».

This was particularly damaging over the issue of immigration, where de facto the last Labour government encouraged migrants due to the economic benefits, while simultaneously some figures in the Labour party indulged in dog - whistle collusion in anti-migrant sentiment.

However, notwithstanding the immediate favourable headlines that the government has garnered from today's figures, the present economic debate still contains numerous positives for Labour.

Part of his New Year's message invoked the spirit of the Blitz, suggesting that he yearns to emerge as a Churchillian figure who can lead a government of national unity at this time of economic crisis.

The government claimed that securing a budget allocation for STI in 2010 of $ 297.3 million — a relatively small decline over the 2009 figure — is a victory and validation of its policy to place science at the heart of its economic policy and drive to create a «knowledge economy.»

For the Democrats, a party that philosophically believes that government should and can play an important role in providing for both the national and economic security of our country, the public's desire for government action is an enormous opportunity to demonstrate leadership (see Figure 1).

Though led by Manmohan Singh — a technocratic figure with a solid track record of pro-growth economic reforms — India's government has not been effective at promoting growth of late.

Though the figures vary greatly, it appears that the main situational difference between the federal government's fiasco and the citizens of America is that the government has a plethora of revenue sources, whereas the working - class heroes who literally built this great nation's economic empire are limited to one or two employment (or unemployment) checks each month.

The report, which publishes economic data on city economies one year ahead of the Government's official figures, placed Derby in second position.

The economic rescue package signed into law last week also figures to provide work for lawyers, says John «Jack» Horan, a government contracts partner with McKenna Long & Aldridge in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately the newly - minted Office for Financial Stability does not have plans for a governmental hiring spree of in - house lawyers just yet — it will operate under the guise of the Treasury Department and hire outside contractors.

There are a lot of exemptions - most of them related to economic hardship - and the U.S. government has put together a pretty good tool to help you figure out if you qualify for any of them.

Sir Ken works with governments and educations systems in Europe, Asia and the USA, in Los Angeles, and was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland.