Sentences with phrase «increasing economic influence»

The TPP serves as a counterweight to Beijing's increasing economic influence in the Pacific.

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Meanwhile, there will be more economic data released this week that could influence the Fed's stance, including a look at housing data as well as the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, which likely increased 0.2 % in July.

However, this policy is more than just a strategy for China to leverage its economic might to increase its influence beyond Asia, this initiative is also part of China's domestic reforms and economic growth.

The mass media both nationally and internationally are rapidly becoming not just an aspect of social cultures, but through their increasing ubiquity across cultures, their functional interrelationship, and their place within the international market and economic system, are becoming the vanguard of a new international culture whose web is touching and influencing almost every other cultural system.

Improving financial and business performance is particularly important given the continued climate of declining terms of trade, increasing land prices, tightening credit and rapid national and global economic and policy influences affecting beef enterprises.

Russia has powerful economic tools (restrictions on imports, increases of gas prices, restrictions on migrant labour); this leverage is complemented by more cultural sources of influence: shared language, history and culture, and kinship.

Further afield, China has been increasing diplomatic, economic and military influence elsewhere.

Moscow has also sought to increase its influence by deepening economic ties with Serbia.

«As a country whose long - term economic recovery relies on the health of our exports and our regulatory environment being attractive to global investors, it would be a colossal surrender of power to walk away from our largest trading partner, increase uncertainty, erect trade barriers and diminish our influence.»

The ability to continuously upgrade job skills and address indirectly related workforce issues such as transportation and housing will influence a person or family's ability to increase and or maintain their economic situation.

This shift has been stimulated by a combination of influences, including greater demand by families at all economic levels, increased public understanding of the importance of early learning, greater support for investment in programs for low income children as a matter of equity, and growing concern about the threat of economic globalization and the need to enhance the nation's human capital by building a strong foundation early in life

As the influence of this international assessment administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has increased, so have the skeptical voices denouncing the nature and consequences of this test.

«Many of the measures of «health of the movement» are just that — measures of the degree to which charter schools, as a movement, are increasing in number and influence,» said Elaine Weiss, who helps lead education initiatives at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank focused on low - to - moderate - income people.

The legislation recognizes that achieving excellence in American education depends on providing access to opportunity for all children, and that increasing inequality within external social, economic, health and community factors — traditionally viewed as outside of the domain of schools — have a significant influence on academic outcomes and a persistent achievement gap.

The Roth IRA contribution limits for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 were greatly influenced by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2002, which advocated for the increase in these Roth IRA contribution limits.

A new National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) report on trends and conditions affecting U.S. artists found the population is diversifying, the definition of who is an artist is broadening, technology is influencing artists» work, economic inequality and debt levels are increasing, and training and funding systems are not evolving with changing practices.

These include reducing inertia in social and economic systems; building on a growing public desire for governments to act on climate change; removing implicit and explicit subsidies; reducing the influence of vested interests that increase emissions and reduce resilience; enabling the shifts from ineffective governance and weak institutions to innovative leadership in government, the private sector and civil society; and engaging society in the transition to norms and practices that foster sustainability.

Determining the effects of climate change on infectious diseases is complex because of confounding contributions of economic development and land use, changing ecosystems, international travel, and commerce.38 Currently, climate warming has been identified as contributing to the northern expansion of Lyme disease in North America39 and has been projected to increase the burden of child diarrheal illness, particularly in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.40 Concern has also been raised for climate links to emerging infections, including coccidioidomycosis41 and amoebic meningoencephalitis.42 Further investigation into climactic influence on infectious diseases is needed.

I realise your paper is not meant to be interpreted this way, but it is influencing me to believe the uncertainties in the IAM's are so great that we should not be advocating policies that increase the cost of energy, like carbon pricing and mandating renewable energy, because they will inevitably do economic damage but with low probability of delivering the projected benefits.

The Power of the Purse, which is a program that's free, can be downloaded by anyone, can be done in Bar Association or in conjunction with in - house counsel, and it advises in - house counsel on ways that they can use their economic influence to increase diversity on law firm teams, not just women but diversity as well in all other ethnicity and other ways.

How the Economy Influences Bankruptcy and Vice Versa Doug Hoyes We know that insolvency rates will rise following an economic downturn and increased unemployment.

Economic damages are the losses that have a direct influence on your finances and might include your lost wages, the loss of potential future earnings such as bonuses, promotions, salary increases, contributions to your retirement savings account, and your medical expenses.

Reflecting on the nature of legal service, Susskind's central premise is that the role and influence of lawyers is «on the brink of a fundamental transformation» (p. 1) and furthermore, that its revolutionary improvement will be driven by two forces: commoditisation, driven by market preferences for increased economic efficiency, and a pervasive uptake of information technology.

More recently, and closer to home, there is the influence the Catholic Church had on the province of Quebec (and continues to have in some regions); clergy not only exercised a top - heavy influence on their followers by keeping them in relative ignorance, but also by isolating them from the rest of the world, which contributed to the increasing economic inferiority which came to mark the province and remained severe until the recent past.

A shift of economic and innovation dominance from the West to the East (China, India) and South (South America), accompanied by increasing influence of non-Western cultures

Research results in Indonesia show that the desire to increase the number of children also influenced by their perception of children values, such as primary group ties and affection, adult status and social identity and economic utility [11].

With the increased recognition that parenting is influenced by a range of factors that might compromise its functioning, several programs have extended their focus by offering support for parents» self - care (e.g., depression, birth - control planning), marital quality, and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g., improving educational, occupational, and housing resources).

Real estate, though cyclical, is being influenced by new parameters that have to be weighed in the balance — including demographics and preferences of aging baby boomers, the economic impact of ever - increasing oil prices and the like.