Sentences with phrase «impact of the policy measures»

It should reduce demand, «but the impact of these policy measures on the market is uncertain,» it said.

The stronger data increased the likelihood China would achieve its 2016 gross domestic product (GDP) growth target of 6.5 % — 7.0 % and underlined the impact of policy measures implemented earlier in the year, aimed at stimulating the Chinese economy.

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While top - down channels are used to communicate vision and strategy in order to get policies and processes aligned with them, bottom - up processes are necessary too, in order for leaders to be aware of the issues faced at the lower levels, as well as to measure the impact of the policies and practices implemented.

With over 90 % of the labour force in the informal economy, it is very difficult to assess the impact of policy actions and measure true growth.

Gold bugs like Sprott have long warned about the impact of inflation, central bank policy measures and government spending on the value of fiat national currencies.

If these measures go into effect, the impact on the economy and small businesses would be modest, says Thomas Hungerford, senior economist and director of tax and budget policy at the Economic Policy Instpolicy at the Economic Policy InstPolicy Institute.

As Chief Economist, Brian is tasked with measuring the impact of the sector and bringing economic issues facing charities and nonprofits to the forefront of public policy decision makers.

Export prospects continue to support the outlook despite elevated uncertainty about the impact of potential US policy changes, notably corporate tax cuts and protectionist measures.

The Chief Economist for Canada's Charitable and Nonprofit Sector is responsible for measuring the impact of the sector and bringing its economic issues forward to public policy decision makers.

As Chief Economist for Canada's Charitable and Nonprofit Sector, Brian Emmett is tasked with measuring the impact of the sector and bringing economic issues facing charities and nonprofits to the forefront of public policy decision makers.

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.

Higher revenues and lower expenses resulting from the improvement in nominal GDP, coupled with the saving measures implemented in the Budget are just sufficient to offset the impact of the new policy initiatives.

There is also a residual (total difference less impact of new policy initiatives and restraint measures).

Some would argue that by acting cautiously on balance sheet normalization (without actively countering impacts of ECB policy measures), Fed policymakers have partially ceded control of financial conditions to foreign monetary authorities, but the same can be said about other central banks as well, for long - term rates are correlated among advanced economies:

We think the ECB will continue to forecast a return of inflation towards its target over the medium term, with 2018 HICP projection close to 1.8 %, once again factoring in the delayed impact of its unconventional policy measures.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

The survey has been conducted every 5 years since 1975 and some would say the reason for cancelling it is the government does not wish the impact of its infant feeding policies to be measured and visible.

Hopefully the APPG will help the government implement the aspects of the Global Strategy where there are found to be gaps and encourage it to reinstate the National Infant Feeding Survey so the impact of policies can be measured and available publicly.

The Scottish Government reduced its limit to 50mg / 100 ml in 2014, but similar measures in the rest of the UK have been resisted because of fears of their impact on pubs About the Institute of Alcohol Studies The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote an informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

Democrats have sought to be on the offensive with reform policy proposals, including a recall measure that would be triggered if an official is accused of corruption that impacts the financials of a municipality or government.

Instead of speculating on the impact of proposed policies such as basic income and environmental taxes Finland will now experiment, measure and scale

· This 200,00 children is in addition to the 400,000 more children that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has previously projected will be living in relative poverty by 2015 as a result of coalition policies, and the 800,000 more children it estimates will living in relative poverty by 2020 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm121.pdf) · The government has not disclosed the likely impact of its sub-inflation uprating on absolute poverty rates which measure whether children are experiencing a real, as opposed to relative, fall in the standard of living.

Given that Medicare data from other states are available, the approach could be used more broadly to measure the health impacts of immigration policy nationwide, says Tom Wong, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

The research, published in April in the journal Housing Policy Debate, documents a study measuring the impact of sustained homeownership on net worth.

This study, conducted by researchers in the Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, is the first to measure the early impact of the program on the experiences of patients enrolled in ACOs.

It is the policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.

None of the studies, though, attempted to measure fully the impact of the policy on students who might have been motivated to work harder to avoid being held back, or on teachers and schools; nor did they parse the effect of student retention on overall system performance.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

It should be obvious even if it sometimes gets lost amidst the noise: The measure of a policy is not its intent but its impact.

To the extent that better information improves the match between families and schools or leads to pressure on schools to increase measured achievement, this effect can augment the impacts of school - choice policies.

The studies themselves weren't designed to isolate any of those factors to measure their direct impact — and more research doing just that is needed to give policymakers a clear road map to success, says Grover Whitehurst, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington.

If the effort succeeds, the state's educator - evaluation system — which measures teachers» impact on student learning — would become a primary component of school personnel policies.

Using these measures, a near - consensus of the «gold standard» studies — those that employ random assignment to determine the causal impact of a policy — have found that students in a school choice program benefit academically from the new setting.

Basis Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation of educator effectiveness by implementing mathematical models that include multiple measures of student growth and which evaluate educator effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety of factors that may impact student learning but over which the teacher has no influence.

Using these measures, a near - consensus of the «gold standard» studies — those that employ random assignment to determine the causal impact of a policy — have found that students in a school choice -LSB-...]

While it is still too early to measure the full impact of RTT, what is clear is that the program inspired major policy changes at the state level.

While this study provides one useful data point for policy makers who are considering introducing or expanding educational choice in their states, policy makers should also consider information generated by studies that have already measured the impact of educational choice on segregation.

His work interests include assessment and accountability technical and policy issues, assessment and accountability design and implementation, measures of student growth, standard setting, educator accountability systems, and impact evaluation of policy and programs.

Other economists are interested in assessing the effectiveness of education policy — weighing the costs and benefits of specific investments, measuring their impact, or identifying unintended consequences.

I disagree that at the very least VAMs might be useful when conducting large - scale research, because the other methods often used to measure gains or the impacts of large - scale interventions and policies over time seem to fare well as well.

«The slowdown in mortgage growth has been evident since the middle of last year, reflecting the impact of prior policy measures, as well as three interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada,» DBRS Ltd. said in a March 19 note.

To ensure our activities are having an impact towards our overall 2020 mission goals we track the following key measures: # researchers funded, breakthrough achievements of funded research, policies changed and / or significant progress made on healthy public policies, # Canadians reached to learn about and establish healthy lifestyle choices and, # survivors and care partners reached to receive needed information and supports.

To reduce the impact of in - use heavy - duty vehicle and engines, the American Lung Association supports measures to reduce or eliminate engine idling, including school system anti-idling policies, truck - stop and port electrification, and the use of auxiliary power units to supply overnight heating, cooling, and other driver amenities for sleeper - cab equipped long haul trucks.

From these three country experiences, we find that fostering public support to implement lasting reform may depend on four measures: (1) forming a public engagement plan and a comprehensive reform policy that are then clearly communicated to the public in advance of price increases; (2) phasing in price adjustments over a period of time to ease absorption; (3) providing a targeted compensatory cash transfer to alleviate financial impacts on low - to middle - income households; and (4) capitalizing on favorable global macroeconomic conditions.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

There are a number of transport emissions reduction policy measures that Congress could pursue, but the one that will have the most immediate impact is the one that will demand more from those modes of transportation that are currently the most fuel and carbon efficient — like passenger rail.

These policy actions include new legislation requiring long - term contracting for renewables and other resources in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, revised incentives for distributed generation resources, changes to RPS polices in other states in New England, proposed Massachusetts - specific CO2 caps, and newly - revised forecasts for electricity sales that take the full impact of new energy efficiency measures into account.

A new peer - reviewed paper by Dr. Bjorn Lomborg published in the Global Policy journal measured the actual impact of all significant climate promises ahead of the Paris climate summit.

This flyer highlights that migration policies and measures to address displacement need to be part of adaptation strategies, and briefly presents key UN system's activities aimed at making vulnerable people, places and sectors more resilient to the impacts of climate change.