Sentences with phrase «in economic welfare»

The Cato authors argue that using the proceeds from a carbon tax to cut other taxes will not produce a net improvement in economic welfare if we divorce that conversation from any consideration of environmental benefits.

Members of the Institution are at the forefront of high - technology industry and play a major role in the economic welfare of their countries as well as in the quality of life.

Are improvements in economic welfare so connected to increases in GNP that, despite the differences between economic welfare and market activity, it is appropriate to continue to use GNP as a way of measuring economic success?

We suspected that the decline in correlation of improvement in economic welfare and growth in market activity had continued, and we thought that using a widely recognized measure, developed by respected economists, would give some authority to the results.

Not exact matches

A good part of Putin's political success has been based on his record of improving people's welfare, but with no relief in sight for Russia's economic troubles, it may only be a matter a time before the general populace begins to feel the pinch more sharply.

Already in Brazil, the region's biggest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is starting to roll out a more conservative message of austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits, to tame a record budget deficit widened by the biggest economic slowdown in 25 years.

No democracy in the world has been sustained over time without some independent institution that stands up for and advances worker rights, interests and economic welfare.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

So it is perhaps appropriate that the most intuitive explanation for the effects of an improvement in terms of trade on economic welfare that I've seen came from Governor or the Reserve Bank of Australia Glenn Stevens:

In determining monetary policy, the Bank has a duty to maintain price stability, full employment, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the Australian people.

Williams joined the Sherwood Foundation in September 2006, where she has developed a diverse portfolio focusing primarily on child welfare, family economic well - being, and social and racial justice.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

The CPTPP raises real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the parties as a group by about 0.075 per cent, generating economic welfare benefits of about $ 17.5 B in current Canadian dollars by 2035.

SEEKING MORE - INCLUSIVE GROWTH By Gordon Platt After strong economic growth in 2011, the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council are spreading the wealth by putting a priority on non-oil job creation and social welfare.

Arguably his signature achievement is to have radically reduced the fiscal capacity of the federal government, and with it, the broader role of government in advancing the economic and social welfare of Canadians.

Through the 1950s, however, all Christians of whatever stripe held to what Wilcox calls «the ideology of familism» that invested marriage, childbearing, and the household with sacredness, and in which, at least since the Industrial Revolution, men were the chief economic providers while the domestic sphere and the welfare of the children were chiefly the domain of women.

Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»

In order to show that increasing total production does not improve human welfare, we have developed an Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) for the United States.

Basically their figures showed that growth in gross product and growth in welfare rose together from 1939 to 1947 but that since then a large continuing growth in product was accompanied by very little improvement as judged by the Measure of Economic Welfare.

My point is only that rough approximations to measuring economic welfare strongly suggest that the time for viewing increase in gross product as the appropriate goal for national policy is ended.

But we have no doubt that in the United States sustainable economic welfare is declining while the Gross National Product rises.

If it turned out that in the twenty years after 1965 continuing growth of GNP had not been accompanied by improved economic welfare, then surely it was time for a national discussion of how welfare could be improved.

They may allow «national planning» of a sort (as in France); they may allow welfare programs; they may allow some progressive taxation; but what they will not allow is an invasion of the autonomy of the private corporation so that economic decisions can be coordinated and made on a basis other than profits.

«Utopia - writing,» she argues, interacted with social experimentation and the more popular imagination to create social innovations in every sphere from the economic (the trade union movement, profit - sharing, social security, scientific management) through political (parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage) to the social (universal education, child welfare practices, women s «emancipation,» New Towns, social planning.

Along with health and social welfare, education too has become a commodity in the market with self - financed technical institutions imparting training in technical and managerial skills for employment in Trans - national economic enterprises to those who can afford it.

Moreover, violence is always used in the conviction that it is the only means adequate for attaining a noble end — social justice, the nation's welfare, elimination of criminals (for the political or social enemy is always considered a criminal), radical change of the economic structures.

In his foreword to Venkatesh's book, Wilson speaks of the rights denied to American citizens to «basic economic welfare and security.»

The IME and WB insist on reducing the role of the State in economic life and in public social welfare.

Secondly, he continued to be concerned about the economic welfare of the Apostles in Jerusalem.

«Is the church a genuinely creative source of human welfare, or does it merely share in and decorate the goods created by economic and other secular forces?»

In the meantime, the economy that cooperated with welfare reform by providing jobs and economic confidence in the late 1990s has turned souIn the meantime, the economy that cooperated with welfare reform by providing jobs and economic confidence in the late 1990s has turned souin the late 1990s has turned sour.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

The U.S. led in dismantling the welfare state and the national economy — the dominant economic system of the first decades after World War II.

If we draw a broader picture of what is important to human beings, the leveling off of sustainable welfare in economic terms would be replaced by a definite decline in overall human terms.

Believers need to learn about the ways in which marriage advances the emotional, social, and economic welfare of children.

There are many respects in which these measures omit positive contributions to economic welfare and ignore what is harmful.

When efforts have been made to measure economic welfare in distinction from gross product, the results have generally showed greater divergence than economists generally like to suppose.

In order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange - based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communioIn order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange - based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communioin a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communion.

Nevertheless, I am confident that our figures are much more indicative of actual change in sustainable economic welfare than is GDP.

This indicated a marked decline in the usefulness of GNP figures, if the goal is improved economic welfare.

This means that economic goals like liquidation of poverty and unemployment, distribution of welfare, narrowing the gulf between the rich and the poor, people's participation in the economic process, accountability of economic centres to the people, economic self - sufficiency and similar other economic purposes are jeopardized because the market is not concerned with them.

With this addition, the decline in sustainable economic welfare turns out to be considerable.

It would seem more rational to draw the conclusion that in the circumstances of the time, increasing GDP was a rather ineffective way of improving economic welfare.

We could focus on overcoming the first of the assumptions noted, an assumption that is not part of economic theory but rather of contemporary politics, namely, the primacy of the economy in shaping human welfare.

Partly it has been a function of imitation, beginning in the nineteenth century with Bismarck's social welfare programs in Germany, and partly it has been prompted by international economic competition, again starting in the nineteenth century, with national governments playing an increasing role in regulating and promoting all forms of economic activity.

But the most important questions in framing a measure of economic welfare have to do with what contributes to sustainable well - being.

Although one could argue that we are wrong in subtracting certain things or in using the values we do at various points, and so claim that economic welfare has in fact not declined in recent years, it would be equally possible to reintroduce leisure into our calculations and end up with figures indicating a more drastic decline.

If you agree that environmental deterioration is important, that net international capital is a significant consideration, and that a nation is better off economically when the gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed, then our figures will be useful to you in evaluating how much correlation there is between changes in per capita GNP and economic welfare.

Yet when their results are examined more carefully, they would seem, at the very least, to call for close monitoring of the economy with the distinction between improving economic welfare and growth of GNP in mind.

In order to appreciate the full force of these results, it is helpful to understand that the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare accepts the most basic assumption underlying the work of Nordhaus and Tobin and all others who have devised measures of economic Economic Welfare accepts the most basic assumption underlying the work of Nordhaus and Tobin and all others who have devised measures of economic economic welfare.