Sentences with phrase «international competitiveness in»

With No Child Left Behind (NCLB) emphasizing math and reading, business and manufacturing leaders calling for workplace readiness in our graduates, and politicians citing lagging international competitiveness in science and math, the Arts Endowment chairman must utilize the bully pulpit more than ever before.

Not exact matches

Negative spillover effects in the form of excessive capital inflows and upward pressure on their exchange rates have at times made it difficult for them to control domestic credit conditions and have threatened their international competitiveness.

The North American Strategy for Competitiveness (NASCO) announced its 2018 tri-national conference will be held in Vancouver next fall, to address issues and discuss solutions to the rapidly changing state of international business and its impact on global trade.

The weights in the CEER are designed to capture the competitiveness of Canadian goods in international trade.

MONTERREY, MEXICO — The North American Strategy for Competitiveness (NASCO), kicked off its annual tri-national conference in Monterrey on Oct. 25 to address issues and discuss solutions to the rapidly changing state of international business and its impact on global trade.

It also ranks seventh in world competitiveness, according to Switzerland's International Institute for Management Development (IMD), and is the fastest - growing European economy.

The Bundesbank, the most hawkish of central banks, has signalled it would accept higher inflation in Germany as part of an economic rebalancing in the eurozone that would boost the international competitiveness of countries worst - hit by the region's debt crisis.

However, export volumes also fell over 2003, with manufacturers losing competitiveness in international markets.

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Mr. Chair, committee members, thank you for the invitation to take part in your study on new and emerging issues faced by Canadian importers and exporters in relation to their international competitiveness.

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Among the latter were a contraction in international demand for electronics and a loss of competitiveness as currencies appreciated with the US dollar against the yen.

FCAS aims to nurture the fintech ecosystem with talents in order to sustain its developments, ensuring Hong Kong's competitiveness as an international finance centre.

They have also made some progress in improving their international competitiveness, though there remains an opportunity for further structural reforms in labor and product markets — and not just in the periphery — to increase productivity and strengthen long term growth prospects.

The Tribunal must also take into account, in determining what amounts to a benefit to the public, all other relevant matters that relate to the international competitiveness of any Australian industry: s 95AZH (2)(b).

However, weakened competitiveness of local agricultural products compared to counterparts from other countries, incompatibility with international standards and absence of export plans have undermined the export of food products in non-oil exports.

The impacts of climate change will be countered by greater investment in Research and Development to boost productivity and international food production and processing competitiveness.

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Tensions between countries, competitiveness, and national pride will make the option of pursuing hypersonic missiles attractive, although in the long term, that could be deleterious to a peaceful international environment.

International election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, who were invited to observe and report on the 2004 national elections, expressed criticism of the U.S. congressional redistricting process and made a recommendation that the procedures be reviewed to ensure genuine competitiveness of Congressional election contests.

In Ghana, he said trade facilitation has been enhanced with a 57 % increase of volumes of goods processed at the Customs Technical Service Bureau which will have a very dramatic impact on Ghana's international investment competitiveness with direct impact «on our domestic economic situation, offering up much more job opportunity, and improve living standards for our people.»

James P. Rubin, a former State Department spokesman, was hired at the agency in 2011 as counselor on competitiveness and international affairs, with a salary of $ 150,000 a year.

Last week he told City A.M. that the EU «should stop butting in» on bankers» pay and said the reforms could «undermine London's international competitiveness».»

«Britain's international competitiveness would be severely damaged, and to be frank we will become a laughing stock if there isn't a decision on an extra runway in the South East this year.

France's road to modernization of research may not be smooth, and it may be a while before the new funding and autonomy of the universities leads to greater international competitiveness, but it is clear among the scientific community that a shake - up was sorely needed in the old system.

The reforms are shaking up research mainly in the public system, to enhance collaboration and international competitiveness, pay structures, and recruitment of foreign scientists.

The study, published recently in the online version of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out at the UAB, with collaboration from Radboud University Medical Center (the Netherlands), University of Colorado (USA) and Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and was funded principally by Fundació La Marató, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia.

«However, in a post-Brexit U.K., this international competitiveness could be jeopardized,» Runge adds — noting that, had he anticipated the Brexit vote, «maybe I would have gone to a different place.»

«It will in principle damage our international competitiveness,» said Keith Mason, chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

H.E. Andan Badran, Jordan's Former Prime Minister & Former Minister of Defense, President of Petra University Hossam Badrawi, physician, President of the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development, and the founder and the honorary chairman of the Egyptian Council of Competitiveness (ENCC) Yee Cheong Lee, Chairman of Governing Board, International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South - South Cooperation under the auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC) Helene de Rode, Professor at the UCL - Mons Dr. Ghaith H. Fariz, Director of UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States; Cluster Office for Egypt, Sudan, and Libya; and UNESCO Representative to Egypt Omar Fassi - Fehri, Permanent Secretary of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco Nazar M. Hassan, UNESCO Senior Specialist for Science and Technology for the Arab States; Director of UNESCONECTAR Network H.E. Prof. Jo Ritzen, Honorary Professor of Maastrich University Chair and Founder of Empower European Universities and Initiator of the Vibrant Europe Forum Mahmoud M. Sakr, President of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) Professor Peter Tindemans, Secretary General, EuroScience

Karoly and Bigelow calculated that every dollar invested in ECE would lead to a future return of $ 2.62, as well as additional benefits to the state such as reduced crime and greater international competitiveness.

As concern over America's competitiveness abroad intensifies, education officials in the U.S. are beginning to consider using individual states and districts — not just the nation as a whole — as the units against which to measure their international peers.

(If it ain't broke, etc.) Yet all the news about flat NAEP results and bleak PISA and TIMSS scores, to say nothing of the hand wringing over international competitiveness and waning social mobility, don't seem to have penetrated very far into the public's continued faith in their local schools.

At the same time, they said, the growing interest among policymakers in the politically charged issue of competitiveness has improved international educators» chances to make their message heard.

«As the nation seeks to maintain our international competitiveness, ensure all students regardless of background have access to a high quality education, and prepare all students for college, work and citizenship,» said Duncan when the standards were released in June 2010, «these standards are an important foundation for our collective work.»

According to them, «the focus on -LSB-...] standardised international comparisons of educational performance in core subjects divert the attention of policymakers and practitioners from competitiveness» (p. 293).

Policy makers see competitiveness achieved by securing a high rank in the proverbial leagues tables, such as PISA scores and other international assessments.

In order to increase the Accord's competitiveness against its rivals in different international markets, Honda CEO Nobuhiko Kawamoto decided on one basic platform for the sixth - generation Accord, but with different bodies and proportions for local marketIn order to increase the Accord's competitiveness against its rivals in different international markets, Honda CEO Nobuhiko Kawamoto decided on one basic platform for the sixth - generation Accord, but with different bodies and proportions for local marketin different international markets, Honda CEO Nobuhiko Kawamoto decided on one basic platform for the sixth - generation Accord, but with different bodies and proportions for local markets.

By the Accord's sixth generation in the 1990s, it evolved into an intermediate vehicle, with one basic platform but with different bodies and proportions to increase its competitiveness against its rivals in different international markets.

«Hourly wages are not higher than in the U.S., despite the rhetoric of some politicians that our wages have somehow priced us out of international competitiveness,» said Jim Stanford.

The agreement forms part of Meliá Hotels International's business strategy to strengthen its position and competitiveness in international markets, forming partnerships with major travel companies to enhance efficiency and guarantee the best products for iInternational's business strategy to strengthen its position and competitiveness in international markets, forming partnerships with major travel companies to enhance efficiency and guarantee the best products for iinternational markets, forming partnerships with major travel companies to enhance efficiency and guarantee the best products for its customers.

The programme's overall objectives are to promote a culture of quality, service excellence and continuous improvement in the Caribbean, which are driven by international standards and certification, to strengthen the business performance and overall competitiveness of tourism enterprises in the region.

We recognize the challenge that our nation faces in addressing the deficit and revitalizing our national economy; however, defunding specific grants or eliminating entire sets of disciplines... sets a dangerous precedent that, in the end, will inhibit scientific progress and our international competitiveness.

The 2010 IEPR Update will focus on how projects in California receiving ARRA awards are creating economic benefits and new jobs, reducing California's dependence on imported energy, and increasing California's competitiveness in national and international energy markets.

Successful RD&D programmes need to be well focused and should be co-ordinated with both industry efforts to promote commercialisation and competitiveness in the market, and with international programmes.

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

Ultimately business involvement at COP21 will ensure there is no «distortion of competitiveness in the global market» as the International Chamber of Commerce Climate Working Group puts it.

Howard Feldman, API's director of regulatory and scientific affairs, testified at EPA field hearings this week that the agency's proposals could result in higher energy costs, impacting the oil and natural gas industry's international competitiveness and negatively affecting the broader economy.

The lack of vision and political will from the leaders of many developed countries is not just harming their long - term competitiveness, but is also endangering efforts to create international co-operation and reach a new agreement that should be signed in Paris in December 2015.

«This year's Sustainable Transport Award nominees demonstrate the relevance of the developing world in the fight against climate change while improving citizen's quality of life and enhancing their international competitiveness,» said Walter Hook, the ITDP»S executive director.