Sentences with phrase «local economic problems»

Local groups generally tackle local economic problems and pursue local solutions.

Not exact matches

Another reason is that cities with a strong entrepreneurial culture and local control of economic resources have more capacity to solve problems on their own and are more resilient and adaptable in times of distress.

As Greece continues to grapple with a crippling economic crisis, a local congressman insists the problem should serve as a warning to the U.S.

He also said that as politicians ran out of options to explain the decline in economic opportunities, they always conclude that the problems were caused by immigrants who had come to take over local jobs.

Working in concert with LEPs, the combined authorities would tackle the chronic problems of poor skills, infrastructure and economic development across a wider area than local government can currently address.

For local groups like MASIPAG (The Farmer Scientist Partnership for Development Inc.) in the Philippines, combating a socio - economic problem with a technofix solution is reliving the Green Revolution — which they have totally turned their backs on.

Those in power obviously thought that, if they could make economic conditions tough enough through «legal» means, then the «local problem» would work itself out.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

However, just crunching differences in home prices can skew results towards communities that have poor prospects — that is, neighbourhoods that are cheap because they're mired by social problems, lack amenities or are plagued by anemic local economic growth.

We interviewed tourism officials who expressed caution about clamping down too much on development, given the lack of growth in other economic sectors, and fisherman concerned that no - fishing zones could end fishing altogether — saying local fisherman aren't the main problem and are already facing high fuel costs and competition from cheaper seafood imports.

It also makes economic sense: All those reservoirs filling up with coal ash day after day are just problems waiting to happen, and if we're just waiting for catastrophes to happen before we do something, the true cost of burning coal isn't being internalized properly; local citizens and people downstream of those rivers end up paying for it with their health and by losing their local environment (what if your family house was buried in potentially toxic sludge?).

Cities can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously addressing other pressing local environmental problems such as air pollution, waste, and transport, not to mention other challenges such as local economic development.

Kelley recognized early on, thanks to his local mentors, that Port Arthur's economic and social issues could only be addressed if the environmental problems were tackled first.

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

Guest speakers - local activists and experts in social and environmental justice from abroad taught us that ecology is nowadays linked to social and economic problems.

So if rates rise too much, we could see an uptick in mortgage problems, not only inhibiting the home - sale recovery but also dampening local economic growth.

The area experienced a collision between two major economic problems: the recession and the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle program — a major local employer.

High local property taxes and restrictions on parking pose the biggest operating problems for managers of multifamily properties, concluded a recent report on «Housing and Household Economic Studies,» published by the U.S. Census Bureau.