Sentences with phrase «interesting policy questions»

As an aside, I think it's an interesting policy question if charitable orgs should be required to have distribution rates above «reasonable» expected long - term returns.

Lat says «The story explores the pros and cons of having a mandatory retirement age — a legitimate and interesting policy question.

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By next year, there are questions to answer about what data should guide policy and the extent to which preventing asset - price bubbles should influence the benchmark interest rate.

Governor Poloz and I are pleased to be here to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement and our Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

We are happy to be here to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement, and our October Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I are happy to be here with you again to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement, and our latest Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

In the time I have, I will discuss how our thinking on the interactions between monetary policy and financial stability has been evolving, tell you about some interesting recent research by our staff and touch on some questions that have yet to be resolved.

-- Finally, Brad DeLong asks a fair question: «Why, if you want to tighten monetary policy, are you doing so first by raising interest rates rather than by shrinking the balance sheet?»

The funds were from Y Combinator's new Continuity Fund, which supposedly would be making pro rata investments at < $ 250 million valuations in all of Y Combinator's startups gaining additional funding, but the question as to whether or not Y Combinator has reversed its previously stated policy for the fund is less interesting than the fact the firm is also moving up market.

The more interesting question is how can we embrace and support an unprecedented opportunity — for businesses, investors, policy makers and anyone excited by where new worlds may be forming.

Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I are pleased to be back to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement and our Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

The move caused China's entire yield curve to drop 15 basis points and raised interesting questions about the PBOC's policy intent.

That has been the question on many investors» minds ever since the Fed first indicated it was prepared to eventually end its zero interest - rate policy once the economy improved to its liking.

And this random quality is present both for policy makers and investors, raising interesting questions as to systemic risk events.

One of the things I find most interesting about the prospect of the next recession is the question of the Fed's policy toolkit when it finally does happen.

If revisionists manage someday to recapture denominational offices and pulpits in large number, the churches will be less concerned to prescribe and implement theologically correct views and more interested in equipping people to do their own thinking about questions of economic policy.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

The presence of such policy - oriented commentary raises an interesting question: How do we get from highly general biblical principles to specific policies and practices?

THE PEOPLE»S RESPONSIBILITY By grounding foreign policy analysis in wider considerations of political philosophy in his «The Morality of Self - Interest» (June / July 2010), David P. Goldman has performed a valuable service, but his treatment of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars raises further questions.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

This has also raised question about the effectiveness of the conflict of interest policy of the medical journal Lancet, given that two of the lead authors of its series on Maternal and Child Nutrition were members of Nestle's Creating Shared Value Advisory Committee.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies.

Understanding these internal political dynamics also raises interesting questions about which Western foreign policy strategies are likely to be most effective in encouraging economic reform within China.

Her response that foreign policy took into account the military's security interests but is made on wider considerations of national interest raised the vital question of who defines «national interest» in Pakistan.

This question came from our site for people interested in governments, policies, and political processes.

This is an interesting comparison between the taxation systems of the US and Denmark, but how does it answer the question «Has high taxation of the rich ever been sustainable as an economic policy»?

This is a serious enough policy question; certainly the military and police are interested both in estimating, (and perhaps at budget or election time mis - estimating), crowd sizes.

The more interesting points of any poll are the more detailed questions on specific policy areas.I'll look forward to these being published.

The question is more interesting in the light of the Conservatives» relatively small opinion poll lead and their internal debate, increasingly intense, about the direction of policy.

The group, along with CitizenLink and its coalition of state - based family policy councils, questioned Trump's stances on issues such as abortion and same - sex marriage (which tended in the past to be liberal) as well his gambling and casino interests.

Certainly the Labour Party hopes so, launching an onslaught of backbench questions regarding the PM's adviser and his «devastating conflict of interest» with the ditched plain cigarette packaging policy.

«When one interest group who happens also to be a campaign contributor is favored over another, it's quite reasonable to question the motivation behind the policy change,» said Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, a watchdog group.

Policies now coming under question include «deregulation; the dominance of finance over industry; allowing large private sector vested interests to flourish; government getting out of the way in the economy; the promise that the majority would always do well from an in - it - for - yourself, laissez faire, deregulated economy just isn't working for most working people».

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

Bill Weihl, Google's «clean energy czar,» said his company undertook the study out of a combination of self - interest, commitment to cleaner energy, and frustration with a national energy policy debate that seems to ask a lot of wrong questions.

If these kinds of questions interest you, you should think about a career in science policy.

Bone up on the areas of policy you're interested in, and home in on a few key questions of contemporary relevance.

In re-visiting the question of how job applicants» race and gender affect employer interest in their resumes, Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy in the MU College of Arts and Science and Truman School of Public Affairs, analyzed employer response rates to resumes that were assigned randomly selected names.

Though the verdict was based on a technicality related to the scope of the term «product of nature,» Plomer argues the verdict «calls into question patent policies which put the rights of organizations motivated by the pursuit of profit above the public interest and rights to equal and free access to open science.»

In a posh hotel not far from Central Park, a small group of lobbyists, administrators, and legislators gathered to consider an interesting question: Does anybody in the public schools ever hear the policy debates that rage back and forth at the state level?

This year, «down - ballot» races like Question 2 on expanding the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts and the gubernatorial race in North Carolina are generating particular interest as barometers for where state policy might move.

While we can not be certain whether the higher performance of network schools is because good schools were the ones to expand or whether networking, by itself, had a positive impact, our results nonetheless add considerably to the sparse information currently available on a question of substantial policy interest.

Though South Africa opened its borders and welcomed refugees fleeing persecutions, the current approach towards treatment of refugees shows a sign of a fatigue of hosting refugees.45 It becomes a metaphysical question as to whether Rwandan refugees should blame South Africa for having laws that protect the human rights and interests of its citizens or whether they blame the superpowers foreign policies that led to the negation of the principles of human and refugee rights, resulting in their current sufferings and predicament or whether they blame the oppressive regime installed in Rwanda, a regime only interested in tracking them down for assassination.

An interesting and policy - relevant question about the demand curve is the proportion of family income that families are willing and able to spend on center - based care.

The policy intervention in Philadelphia raises questions of general interest: Do students at schools assigned to for - profit or nonprofit managers learn more than would be expected had those schools remained under school district management?

«Parents will rightly question the motives of a Secretary of State for Education who appears hell - bent on pursuing a policy agenda that isn't evidence based and clearly not in the interests of children and young people.»

Literacy researchers are rarely driven by policy questions or issues; they are primarily interested in subject matter teaching and learning.

Wallace's approach is to develop insights into important questions that, if answered, could help strengthen practices and policies within the foundation's fields of interest.

His recent research and publication interests have focused on the relationship between English language proficiency and content assessments, standards alignment, policy issues associated with Title III accountability, and applying growth modeling techniques to address key educational questions for English language learners.

Sounding Board is comprised of NBCTs who are interested in regularly giving the teacher's perspective on relevant and critical education issues or policy implementation questions.