Sentences with phrase «larger than the economy»

Of course not, but remember that cultures are larger than economies, which are larger than governments.

Some comments on the cabin itself - it's just 3 rows of 2 -3-2 configuration (rows 9 - 11); each seat has its own video screen (larger than economy), its own armrests (one of which contains a tray table, the other has storage and a mains outlet for charging devices).

The carbon tax stands; Carole James falls.There were, of course, many other issues in the election, probably none larger than the economy.

Not exact matches

Larger operations tend to have greater profitability, because of economies of scale, but, at the same time, these businesses would likely capitalize more than smaller ones from any innovations.

When that happens, the demographic pinch is likely to force China's economy to switch from low - cost exporter to advanced welfare state faster than any large nation has ever done before.

The impulse from this spending bill is likely to be even larger for the economy than the tax cuts because the multipliers are significantly larger,» he told CNBC.

Chinese e-commerce accounts for 13.5 percent of all retail spending, a higher share than that of all large economies except the U.K.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

The firm raises more than 20 million chickens a year for McDonald's in the world's second largest economy.

Canada's economy is only slightly larger than the state of New York, meaning many U.S. retailers didn't make it a priority in their expansion plans.

However, the economy has proved more resilient than expected, in large part, thanks to consumer spending.

The positive economic data, which included the release of better - than - expected purchasing managers» index (PMI) readings last Wednesday, and a large current account surplus in some euro zone economies, have given confidence to investors to buy euros.

But it'll have to do more than that to win over the world's second largest economy.

«That would be the equivalent of adding a country with an output larger than Germany to the global economy,» Lagarde said at a panel in Brussels on Wednesday, according to prepared remarks.

Your legacies of deregulation, a financialized US economy and the Greenspan put have spoken for themselves by helping to cause the world's largest and most productive economy to suffer more than a decade of malaise, 10 ′ s of millions unemployed and a near collapse of the entire system.

China is the second largest economy in the world and is growing faster than any of the world's large economies, so if Canada is going to maintain the standard of living that we have today, we need to tap into that economy.

Already in March most indicators have disappointed: the U.S. economy added a dismal 88,000 jobs last month, less than half as many as analysts expected; retail sales dropped 0.4 %, the largest decline since June of 2012; and this week durable goods orders, out last Wednesday, plunged 5.7 %, nearly twice the tumble expected and likely a sign that U.S. factories have entered a slump.

Brazil was the only main market to see profits decline, for a sixth consecutive quarter, as Latin America's largest economy emerges unevenly and slowly from its worst recession in more than a century.

China is the world's second - largest economy, and even with a GDP growth rate of 5 %, the growth rate is more than double that of developed economies,» said Ma.

Notwithstanding a black swan or two, even the most conservative forecasts show that China and India are set to be the No. 1 and No. 3 economy in the world by 2050 — larger together than the entire G7.

In a speech in August, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada's economy is 2.5 per cent larger every year than it would be without NAFTA: «It is as if Canada has been receiving a $ 20 - billion cheque each year since NAFTA was ratified.»

More than just a tourism magnet that attracts 5 million - plus visitors every year, Brazil is South America's largest economy, with gears turning busily in numerous sectors.

Li sees reforms to China's strict immigration policies as a necessary way to create a better environment for entrepreneurship and innovation to flourish in the country, which saw its economy grow larger than expected in 2017.

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

Still, the US economy extends its streak of payroll gains larger than 200,000 to 11 months, the longest since a 19 - month streak that ran from 1993 to 1995.

LONDON, Oct 24 - The euro fell to a one - week low against the dollar on Wednesday after worse - than - expected German business activity and sentiment data fuelled concerns of weakness in the euro zone's largest economy.

Immigrant founders play a vital role as connectors to global markets — both abroad and here in the U.S. Immigrant businesses are 60 percent more likely to export than native - owned companies, and more than 2.5 times as likely to rely on exports for a large part of their sales, according to the Partnership for a New American Economy.

And the market still (largely) expects that the ECB will eventually undertake a larger QE program than what it is currently executing as the eurozone's economy continues to flag.

Only five countries in the entire world boast economies larger than that of California — the $ 2.46 trillion juggernaut that represents 14 percent of the total U.S. economy.

While the region's largest economies — Germany, France and Italy limp on with low growth figures — the wider region has some surprising and unexpected «emerging» growth stories with Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Poland all growing faster than Europe's «old,» larger and more indebted economies.

All told, the nation's five largest banks are now worth nearly $ 1 trillion, which is slightly less than the GDP of Mexico, the world's 15th largest economy.

The United Kingdom boasts the world's fifth - largest economy, with an annual GDP of just more than $ 2.6 trillion.

But the cruel irony is that any improvement in demand and output conditions in these three countries will partly leak out and benefit the euro area countries with large trade surpluses because their economies are running on exports rather than domestic demand.

While we may be on the cusp of change, most large company compensation committee members don't have more than a surface understanding of how their decisions to squeeze worker pay affect the economy, their businesses, and the lives of the people who work at the companies they represent.

Clearly that is an enormous number... it's actually larger than the size of the entire US economy, which is pretty incredible.

Economically, China may be highly vulnerable and will suffer worse consequences than the U.S. in a trade war, but as the world's second - largest economy, it can still deliver a powerful counter punch.

Today China's economy is already larger than the U.S. in terms of purchasing power parity.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has defended the country's economic policies, repeating that there was more opportunity than risk and vowing that there would be no hard landing for the world's second - largest economy if the government pressed ahead with reforms.

Only four national economies are larger than the combined tech...

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

Virgin Atlantic's wording for its mid-level seating is quite clever: by calling it premium economy rather than business class or something similar, it makes it seem less of a step up even though there is quite a large price difference.

Not only did the Zero Lower Bound turn out to be not so debilitating as all that — rather than work their will via interest rates, central banks took to injecting money directly into the economy via large - scale asset purchases — but it does not even seem to be the lower bound: central banks, notably in Europe, have successfully experimented with negative interest rates.

In a separate note, TD Securities» chief Canada macro strategist David Tulk said forecasters have underestimated the impact of the oil price decline on the Canadian economy, calling the shock «longer - lived and larger» than expected.

The Japanese economy alone was larger than that of the United States.

It has a population of more than 620,000 residents, making it the 27th largest city in the U.S. Prior to World War II, it had an economy driven largely by major stock yards that attracted people and businesses from Omaha and Chicago.

As the world's second largest exporter behind China, a cheap currency is a lot more important to the German economy than it is to the American economy.

Nevertheless, because the Canadian economy is dealing with a large terms - of - trade shock, it is likely to be less synchronized with the U.S. economy than in the past.

Even taking into account the much larger size of the economy today, the economic impact of patent litigation today is an order of magnitude larger than it was in the age of the telegraph.

For example, Alibaba and Tencent — both on the forefront of the e-commerce wave in China — have risen by 98 % and 111 %, respectively, so far in 2017.2 Companies such as Sina, a global Internet media company, and Baidu, which operates an Internet search engine, have also generated returns this year that are nearly as strong or stronger than those of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google.3 As the world's second - largest economy, China is rapidly evolving from its former status as a noteworthy emerging market to an economic powerhouse on the rise.

Emerging economies account for a larger share of global GDP, corporate revenues, and profits than is reflected in the market capitalization of global equity markets.