Sentences with phrase «just about economic growth»

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The key to future economic growth is about more than just increasing shareholder value.

In the budget there are bold vows — oddly reminiscent of China's annual edicts for economic growth rates — about boosting exports by 30 % in the next eight years (even though exports have climbed just 2.9 % from eight year ago).

Of course, there is no shortage of fundamental issues to worry about: another downgrade to the outlook for global growth, uncertainty about the economic transition in China, the pace of normalization in the United States, worries about Europe, worries about Japan, just to cite a few.

Basically the baby boom, post-war, boosted economic growth in the opposite way to what I just described, for about 50 years.

I was just wondering what your thoughts are on Jeff Rubin's take on all things «Oily» and «Economic», specifically re his books «Why Your World is About to get a Whole Lot Smaller» (2009) and «The End of Growth» (2012)?

Compare this to five years ago when economic uncertainty was their biggest concern or even just last year when only 39 % were very confident about growth.

I mean if we got back to robust economic growth, maybe we could even talk about it, but at this point in the economy, it just seems crazy to even be debating this.»

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

«This issue has now gone beyond Stephen Hester, this is about a prime minister who promised to rein in excess and says to the country in a time of austerity, when his economic policies have choked off growth, that we are all in it together - how hollow is his rhetoric in light of what we have just seen today.

In fact I was just talking to an economist this morning; you extrapolate the gross world product, the world economic activity and it has been just phenomenally consistent at about 3 percent growth rate over the last 30 years.

As far back as the 18th century the Irish economist Richard Cantillon described entrepreneurs as the principal agent of economic growth and renewal, whose role is to support society — so it?s not just about the money.

The conversation about teacher pay is more than just about market forces and local economic growth.

If we care about social mobility, wellbeing and economic growth — and if we want our creative industries to continue to flourish — we need to rebalance our education system so that the arts are valued just as much as other subjects.

No, I'm not talking about the UK's just - published Royal Society report, which, among other things, recommends that developed countries put a brake on economic growth.

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For one thing, as I've said before, the economic models from which IPCC and others draw these numbers are just this side of wild guesses, based on assumptions about economic growth, resource prices, and technological development decades in the future.

The truth is that, despite the fact that cheap energy is vital for economic growth and expensive energy hurts the poor and those on fixed incomes the most, about half of the students interviewed had no opinion or just did not know what fracking is.

CEOs were less optimistic about global growth prospects than when PwC surveyed them a year ago, with just over a third expecting global economic growth to improve in 2015, down from 44 % last year.

Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of ACOSS, noted when launching the report that growing inequities in income and wealth are a «problem both socially but also, importantly, economically as the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has alerted us to, with an important report just last week, that if we're serious about economic growth, concentration of income and wealth in the top is bad for the economy».

«Signs point to the Fed raising rates at least three times next year, and just like we've seen in the last month, mortgage rates will likely move proportionately in anticipation of those increases, as clear data emerges about stronger economic growth and inflation,» says realtor.com ® Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke.