Sentences with phrase «lot of economic analysis»

There's no hope of escaping a lot of economic analysis and personal impressions in the weekly commentary of someone who's an academic economist by training.

And I think that's a big mistake because when you read a lot of economic analyses of climate change, you are struck with a very worrisome sense that the economists don't understand the science, don't appreciate the gravity of the situation.

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«With the mini-bond program, for the first time since IDBs were created, I can show a potential borrower an IDB financial analysis that makes a lot more sense than a traditional commercial loan,» says Rick Palank, director of the St. Louis County Economic Authority in Missouri, one of the first offices to implement a mini-bond program.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

Although environmental decision analysis offers the rewards of bringing together science and public policy, «it is a field of study that has a lot of political, economic, and legal landmines that you can step on,» Crawford - Brown says.