Sentences with phrase «highest policy level»

Once the commitment is made at the highest policy level, bodies are charged with getting on with it and getting it done.

Allowing free - market expression of gold prices may have been seen as a serious risk at the highest policy levels.

At the higher policy level, different programs involved in early child development clash over ideological and historical differences on whether to focus on socio - emotional development or cognitive and literacy skills.

Not exact matches

«Canadian policy - makers have allowed household debt to rise above the disturbingly high levels reached in the U.S. in 2007, raising the risk of a similar potentially disastrous deleveraging down the road,» Madani wrote.

Guests who believe they have experienced racism while using Airbnb may report instances of discrimination to the company or accept Instant Booking listings at a higher price than normal, but there's currently no policy in place to put them on a level playing field with other white guests.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury jumped to its highest level since 2014 on Friday morning, underlining a wider move in bond markets caused by central banks moving away from financial crisis policies.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

In its latest statement, it said «household vulnerabilities have moved higher,» which is how policy makers describe the troubling nexus between excessive housing prices in many cities and record levels of household debt.

Holden says sellers who are primarily concerned with maintaining a high level of customer service - and a high feedback rating - may wish to implement a refund or return policy.

Conveniently, that post links to studies, but not the IWPR's analysis, but rather to a brief commentary by a researcher from the Economic Policy Institute in 2011 that doesn't mention what a higher wage will do to poverty levels.

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.

They contend that its open policies prove the benefits of experimenting with data and using information to establish a «direct relationship between an individual's decisions and their impact on the business» — something the grocery chain accomplishes by giving each employee high - level access to the company's financial data, and therefore a greater stake in the business.

Bond prices fell, sending the yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note to its highest level in four years, following newly released minutes from the U.S. Federal suggesting bullish sentiment among policy - makers and signalling more interest rate hikes ahead.

I wanted to do things at the day - to - day level, not just high - level policy - pushing.

Dickson's high - level policy - making seems to emanate from an ultra-exclusive bureaucratic club called the «heads of agencies,» which includes the governor of the Bank of Canada, the heads of the provincial securities commissions and senior Department of Finance officials.

«This positive relationship suggests that, on average, speeches preceding the meeting that carry a more hawkish sentiment are associated with a higher projected level for the policy rate in the medium term.»

The Federal Reserve said the price - earnings ratios for U.S. stocks were «close to their highest levels outside of the 1990s» in its «Monetary Policy Report» released last month.

LONG - TERM OUTLOOK: «High levels of policy uncertainty and regional divergences will cause higher dispersion across and within asset classes, in our opinion, which increases the attractiveness of active management in both asset allocation and at the security - selection level.»

High levels of policy uncertainty and regional divergences will cause higher dispersion across and within asset classes, in our opinion, which increases the attractiveness of active management in both asset allocation and at the security - selection level.

All in all, we believe eurozone bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level of purchases, at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.

This would imply a higher average level of interest rates and thereby give monetary policy more room to maneuver (Williams 2009; Blanchard, Dell» Ariccia, and Mauro 2010; Ball 2014).

As for Fed easings, I continue to doubt the effectiveness of easy monetary policy in an environment where problem debt levels are unusually high and capital spending is retrenching.

The National Priorities 2016 series provides a high level overview of key issues that the federal and provincial governments need to address, and provides an opportunity to highlight policy...

A shock to the price level which temporarily lowers the inflation rate below 2 per cent does not imply that monetary policy will be set to ensure an offsetting period of high inflation.

That's because even with inflation at its highest level since 2012, the Fed said monetary policy will remain accommodative «for some time.»

Thereafter, the positive impact of the higher level of nominal GDP and the saving measures more than offset the fiscal cost of the policy initiatives, resulting in lower deficits than those forecast in the October 2010 Update to 2014 - 15, and a somewhat higher surplus in 2015 - 16.

Walgreens says it does not have a no - overtime policy and tries to manage «overtime hours efficiently while providing a high level of customer service.»

Given the high level of discontent expressed on the say - on pay proposal last year, when 56.6 % of non-state shareholders voted against, securing support for the proposed remuneration policy may be a challenge.

If policies that transfer income from poor to rich, and so suppress consumption, don't unleash savings into higher actual investment levels, they can easily cause instead a reduction in desired investment levels, so that paradoxically investment actually falls.

Ms. Siu started her career as a member of the Global Markets Institute, the public policy research unit of Goldman Sachs, providing research and high - level advisory services to policymakers, regulators and investors around the world.

Since late 2008, the high level of reserve balances has not been actively managed on a day - to - day basis for monetary policy purposes.

Industrial and political leaders throughout the world have been so anti-labor that there is little thought of raising domestic living standards via higher wage levels and a tax shift off labor and industry back onto property where progressive tax policies used to be based.

[355] During the initial years of the Obama administration, the U.S. increased military cooperation with Israel, including increased military aid, re-establishment of the U.S. - Israeli Joint Political Military Group and the Defense Policy Advisory Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials of both countries.

Our high level of foreign ownership may limit our opportunity to participate in U.S. government travel contracts and the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet program, however, if we are unable to satisfy policies and procedures of the U.S. Department of Defense for the mitigation of foreign ownership, control or influence required of cleared U.S. contractors.

One of the three charged, former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, admitted to making a false statement to FBI investigators who asked about his contacts with foreigners claiming to have high - level Russian connections.

A separate discussion paper published by central bank staffers in October 2017 concluded that even under an alternative scenario in which the potential level of growth was ultimately 1 per cent higher than forecast by 2020, the effects on inflation would be «small» and «therefore does not affect the stance of monetary policy.»

Valentum's investment policy favours companies with low - debt levels, high FCF yields and high quality management teams.

Policy rates were also lowered by 300 basis points in Turkey as inflation in that country continues to decline from high levels.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

The relatively hawkish policies of the Fed compared with other central banks pushed the U.S. Dollar Index to a peak of just under 104 on the first trading days of 2017, the highest level for the index since 2002.

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

The modest outperformance in growth in the Canadian economy is arguably reflective of the relative damage that the financial crisis brought to the US housing and financial sectors, and also is reflected in the higher current level of policy rates in Canada (the Canadian overnight lending rate is currently 1 per cent, compared to the US Fed Funds target rate of 0 to 0.25 % per cent).

The Washington Post counts 37 high - level Trump aides or advisers who've resigned or been fired, including a chief of staff, multiple agency heads, and — importantly, given the administration's need to build a bench for its future — deputy directors of the National Economic Council, the National Security Council, and the Domestic Policy Council, as well as multiple deputy chiefs of staff.

But from the perspective of monetary policy transmission, the higher level of private sector leverage also does imply a stronger impact from interest rate changes.

Tightening policy will adversely affect employment levels because higher interest rates make holding on to cash more attractive than investing it.

Gold prices rallied to $ 1,234 a troy ounce, their highest level since Sept. 23, a day after minutes from the Fed's September policy meeting revealed officials were worried weaker growth in Asia and Europe could curtail U.S. exports.

As Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda put it: «With the level of nominal interest rates being high, Japan's economy will have more policy room to mitigate the impact of future economic downturns, or will be equipped with a sort of insurance for sustained economic growth.»

MNI regularly books seminars for its subscribers with central bankers and other government policy - makers at the highest level.

The dollar rocketed higher in 2014 - 2015 on the back of monetary policy divergence, however I'd view the dollar's weakening in 2016 - 2017 as a correction of this move back towards PPP levels.

The above is meant to be a high - level summary of some of the key aspects of the new tax policy, but certainly not an exhaustive or detailed list.