Sentences with phrase «government policies designed»

Lisa Gibbs from Simpson Millar Solicitors added: «Owning bricks and mortar these days is increasingly a luxury that can only be enjoyed by people with a network of supportive relatives and the support of government policies designed to boost home ownership.

The solo exhibition takes it name, which translates to work group, from «the moniker bestowed, in different contexts and at different points in time, on [Brazilian] government policies designed to address the problem of labor force inactivity,» a press release notes.

«Rising rates are a side effect of government policies designed to reduce financial system risk.»

Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.

Other study findings: Across 38 countries (not including the U.S.), Finland and Chile — both countries with government policies designed to spur entrepreneurship — had the highest levels of training.

Not exact matches

If you believe that a government's first priority should be to do no harm, then you will struggle to support policies designed to correct a situation that isn't yet supported by data.

Instead, the company has already said that it's willing to put $ 5.5 billion into India in the coming years and has already started making modifications to its site's policies and design to play within government regulations and attract Indian shoppers.

That's led to a slew of calls for government intervention and new policies designed to juice startup activity: savings accounts to finance new companies; immigrant entrepreneurial visas; programs to facilitate startups» access to capital; and expanded tax incentives for new businesses.

Governments can benefit from the insight companies and trade associations bring to the table when designing regulations and setting economic policy.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.

The Public Policy Forum's report on the future of journalism and democracy was designed to convince the Liberal government to enact a number of changes to help Canada's media industry, including amending the Income Tax Act and the Copyright Act to provide new streams of revenue for the media.

But today's price divergence reminds us that Bitcoin's fixed number of coins was designed and intended to be independent of global government policies that create excess debt or excessive expansion that results increased inflationary expectations.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

For example, the government could take advantage of the cultural competency of these returnees by utilizing them as consultants when designing policy aimed at attracting tourists.

How could government policy be designed to improve this situation, and what could Canadian companies look for in ESL teacher returnees?

Those who run the Fed are despondent that despite implementing for eight YEARS an interest rate policy specifically designed to enable Obama to create a totally false illusion of economic «recovery» by massively increasing government spending with trillions of phony, deficit, zero - interest - rate «dollars,» the people saw through the economic lie and defeated the Fed's next intended puppet, Clinton.

With a wave of anti-immigrant, anti-free trade sentiment sweeping through Europe, and uncertainty in the U.S. with regard to its H - 1B visa program, Hussen said the federal government's response is simply business as usual — carrying on with policies already implemented or in progress that are designed to make it easier for Canadian companies to get the skilled people they need to grow.

Scripturally speaking, humankind was not designed to rule itself and since politics, according to Webster, has the principal definition, a. the art or science of government, and, b. the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy, surely we are stepping into an arena filled with lions.

A toolkit designed for governments, organic sector organizations, consultants and others involved in the development of organic policy.

According to Paul Kenward, Managing Director of British Sugar: «We are one of Britain's most globally competitive industries and we are ready to work with farmers, importers and government to design a UK sugar policy that allows our world - leading domestic sugar industry to continue to thrive.»

The Department designs and implements Australian Government policy and programs to protect and conserve the environment, water and heritage, promote climate action, and provide adequate, reliable and affordable energy.

Kleibeuker said that while ongoing reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which are designed to cut government intervention in commodity production, could not be stopped, there may be room for some manoeuvre.

The OECD has recently said that «parental leave design is one of the few policy tools that are available to governments to directly influence behaviours among parents» (read more in their Doing Better For Families report).

It has been designed especially to meet government policy on engaging with dads and encouraging them to become more involved.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Steve Elliott said «Government in the UK and the European Union needs to look carefully at the design of industrial policy to ensure the concerns of business leaders — who are making investment decisions — are considered.

«Other stand - out recommendations include a bill designed to address the exploitation of our tax laws and exploitation of Nigerians by multinational firms by Femi Obagun, and a brief policy for more stringent laws against rapists, a Workers Protection Act, an Alternate Financing to Economic Growth Act, a Policing and State Security Act, and a Government Transparency and Anti Corruption Act.

MPs have today called for a review into the impact of the government's «hostile environment» policies which are designed to make life as difficult as possible for undocumented migrants.

Though governments will not be able to call an election at a moment that happens to be favourable to them, they will be able to pursue policies designed to produce favourable circumstances at the time an election is scheduled to take place.

Following five years of policies designed to reduce immigration, quarterly statistics released at the end of August showed net migration reaching the highest level on record, taking the government ever further from its goal of reducing net flows «from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands.»

This is currently happening in Lagos, Nigeria, where the State governor, Babatunde Fashola, has embarked on an ambitious set of policies designed to improve public services provided by his government and infrastructure of one of the most populous cities on the continent.

The coalition government has put forward policies designed to reduce net migration through limitations on international students and skilled labour migrants.

May also made an extraordinary attack on the outgoing Obama administration by criticising its language about the Israeli government, a move at odds with previous UK policy and brazenly designed to curry favour with the incoming Trump administration.

Stung by criticisms of their policy, they've pursued an agenda designed to silence those daring to question the impacts of government legislation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday released a package of measures designed to curtail sexual harassment in the workplace that include a uniform policy for state government employees, a ban on taxpayer funds for settlements related to sexual assault and harassment and require the disclosure from public and some private entities of harassment - related settlements.

Commending the Board, Management and Staff of Payswitch for the «tremendous work done», the Vice President assured that the government of President Nana Akufo - Addo is committed to supporting start - ups through policies and programmes designed to ensure their success.

Professor Osinbajo said though things may appear difficult at the moment, but will not be long before Nigerians start deriving the full benefits of the current policies of government which are designed to reposition the country and improve on the prevailing economic situation.

To design better copyright policy - as in other policy areas - the UK Government requires robust evidence.

The event was designed to allow representatives of the U.S. Government to participate in direct and substantive discussions with Africa's emerging business leaders — an opportunity to engage in a dialogue that has the potential to influence U.S. foreign policy for Africa.

On government's war on corruption, he said the policy had also failed, alleging that it was designed to punish and humiliate members of the PDP alone.

Local government officials who complete this course are eligible to receive complementary one - on - one technical support in designing and implementing smart solar policy in their local jurisdiction.

Supporters defended Cuomo's liberal credentials throughout the campaign, noting his work to pass same - sex marriage and gun control measures while also working to cut state government dysfunction and boost the economy through business - friendly tax policies and initiatives designed to spur economic development in western New York.

Labour lies about Conservative policies are designed to frighten people — especially vulnerable people — into voting for their discredited government.

The absence of the information about house movements on the back of the bedroom tax — called a «spare room subsidy» by the government — raises questions about arguments from ministers that the policy was designed to save money and free up existing stock to cut housing queues.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

It is the Labour Government that people are fed up with, the «it's only Gordon Brown's personality that's the problem» line is actually a Labour myth designed to distract attention from the deep unpopularity of Labour's policies and actions.

which is designed to involve all party stakeholders (including members, local parties, trade unions, socialist societies and Labour representatives) as well as the wider community in shaping party policy and support the relationship between the party in the country and the party in government.

The Government's task will be to persuade the public that their new post-control-orders policy will work, and has been designed purely to defeat terrorism.

Workshops in areas including policy, leadership, and communications are designed to maximize each fellow's proficiency in the qualifications used as benchmarks for Senior Executive Service (SES) recruitment by the U.S. Government.