Sentences with phrase «major economic base»

It was once a terminal for chicle and the timber trade, however, agriculture is now the major economic base.

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«When it comes to the corporate tax code, there are two major changes that will stimulate investment and lead to greater economic growth,» says Scott Hodge, president of the Washington, D.C. - based research group the Tax Foundation, in a statement.

The other major facet of the Chinese censorship enterprise is the use of economic benefits or repercussions for businesses and publications, based on their coverage.

But this was mostly from the decline in real economic activity in the United States and Europe and the scaling back of global operations, including trade credit, by banks based in the major economies.

Asia, a major driver of global economic growth, is both a source of competitive imports but increasingly an important destination for exports for the Canadian economy, a growing market for resource - based commodities but also agri - food products, specialized manufactures, financial and other services and, potentially, energy.

Since 1995, budget planning has been based on the average of the private sector economic forecasts for a few selective major aggregate.

The spending estimates for statutory programs, such as major transfers to persons and other levels of government, should be based on the latest economic data contained in the Budget for that year.

As Ron Hira, an Economic Policy Institute research associate and an associate professor of public policy at Howard University outlines in this blog for the Economic Policy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United States.

N.B: This projection was done based on what is obtainable in the industry and with the assumption that there won't be any major economic meltdown and there won't be any major competitor offering same services as we do within the same location.

N.B: This projection is done based on what is obtainable in the industry and with the assumption that there won't be any major economic meltdown and there won't be any major competitor manufacturing same biotech products and customer care services as we do within same location.

N.B: This projection was done based on what is obtainable in the industry and with the assumption that there won't be any major economic meltdown and there won't be any major competitor offering same products as we do within same location where our mobile juice trucks will transverse.

N.B: This projection is done based on what is obtainable in The Building Exterior Cleaners industry cum window cleaning line of business and with the assumption that there won't be any major economic meltdown and there won't be any major competitor offering same additional related services as we do within same location.

A major catalyst, especially in emerging markets, was the conviction that the Fed was not going to hike base rates in the immediate future against a backdrop of low inflation, weakening job gains and global economic uncertainties.

Venezuela is staring at a far worse economic crisis in the coming days, as US - based banking major Citibank intends to close a number of accounts belonging to the Central Bank of Venezuela and other government arms.

Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions; historical trends of the advertising market; historical trends of each medium in relation to other media; reported revenues from major ad publishers; estimates from other research firms; data from benchmark sources; consumer media consumption trends; consumer device usage trends; and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, media publishers and other industry leaders.

In 2013, the federal government continued, as in the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policy.

In relation to American religious culture, therefore, television has exercised a major status - conferral effect, not on the basis of a representativeness, nor on a calculated moral - evaluative basis, but solely on the basis of a correspondence of a minority religious ethos with television's own economic, functional, and mythical goals.

A major deterrent to the reformation of the city's economic base is the unwillingness of those who can afford to do otherwise to subject their children to the inadequacy of urban schools.

Flanagan indicated he wanted a broad - based review of economic development spending, including some areas that are potentially sensitive to Cuomo, such as the money his administration spends on advertising job - creating efforts and a review of the «lack of accountability for major deals and projects that fail miserably when it comes to creating jobs.»

It seems likely that the one - third of Labour voters from the last general election who want to leave the EU are disproportionately drawn from the Labour party's historic — but increasingly perilous — working - class base, and there is little doubt that these economic concerns are a major explanation for their dissatisfaction.

Southern California was Republican - leaning, largely because the defense industry was a major economic engine -LSB-...] In the early 1990s, defense spending began to fall, and numerous military bases in California were closed.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

Last month, he gave a major speech at Bloomberg, setting out his economic case, based on a Keynesian vision of investing in public works to boost growth.

If you need another reason why the state's major economic development projects shouldn't be parsed out to various nonprofit corporations, where they might escape scrutiny, consider the situation of two Albany - based entities being pressed to pay for the criminal defense of Alain Kaloyeros, SUNY Poly's former president and CEO.

The one - day conference will feature business and economic development leaders, including Gary Patton, the chief technology officer at GlobalFoundries, and Jim Feldhan, president of Semico Research, a major semiconductor consulting firm based in Phoenix.

Howe is a registered lobbyist of a major Buffalo Billion developer, Syracuse - based COR Development, and Percoco is being investigated for making between $ 70,000 and $ 125,000 from two development companies, Clough, Harbour & Associates of Albany and COR Development, both of whom received state contracts on upstate economic development projects.

Regardless of whether Title I remains in its traditional form or is converted in some part to vouchers, districts will face major challenges allocating resources based on individual student economic status as community eligibility for free lunch eliminates the incentive for individual students to report their poverty status.

While the stock market saw a marked positive response to the results of the Consumer Confidence Index, if I were a retailer, I would be hesitant to go out on a limb and base any major business decisions on economic guesswork by the average Joe.

We might consider a set number of turns in which the intent is to maximise a shared score, or simply working on the basis of the economic engine part without a major victory point component.

A major group exhibition of ninety nine artists based in the United States, 99 Cents or Less addresses Detroit's ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy — the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the history of the United States.

Gasoline indirect cost calculated based on International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), The Real Price of Gasoline, Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 34, and updated using ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated with Global Climate Change: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: September 2004), ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: January 2005), Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 60, and Bureau for Economic Analysis, «Table 3 — Price Indices for Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Purchases,» GDP and Other Major Series, 1929 — 2007 (Washington, DC: August 2007); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), This Week in Petroleum (Washington, DC: various issues).

Its website states, «CCAP helps policy - makers around the world develop, promote and implement innovative, market - based solutions to major climate, air quality and energy problems that balance both environmental and economic interests.»

This publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major environmental, economic and social changes in Asia and the Pacific since 1992.

I simply don't understand why you can't see the broad middle ground between «deploy [ing] a large quantity of resources based merely on fear», to the major detriment of prosperity and economic happiness, and «business as usual.».

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

To help meet that goal, California is implementing numerous measures, including standards for renewable energy, a policy to scale up the use of clean fuels, requirements and incentives to increase the use of electric vehicles, and a flexible market - based cap on carbon emissions that creates economic incentives for major carbon polluters to cut their emissions.

California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) is the first major agricultural organization to support Assemblyman Mark Leno's new industrial hemp bill based on the huge economic potential represented by the production of organic hemp in California.

Jacksonville has a well - diversified economic base with major industries including finance, insurance, aviation and aerospace, medical products and services, manufacturing, information technology, and logistics and distribution.

The «weigh stations» found on major highways for large trucks, which are mostly used to gather data used to allocate registration fees for trucks among the states based upon economic reality, are the main practical residuary impact of this constitutional provision.

Over to Mysore, where the Economic Times reports that Smith Dornan Dehn (SDD) Global Solutions, a subsidiary business formed by SDD, a Manhattan - based international media and intellectual property firm, is working on providing legal research and script - vetting for major Hollywood productions.

For instance, in 2000, the average employment income for full - time female employees working year - round was 70.8 % of the income of male workers.25 In addition, gender interacts with other factors, such as race, ethnic origin and disability to compound that economic disadvantage.26 Another persistent barrier to equality for women is gender - based violence in the form of spousal and sexual assaults, for which the majority of victims still do not seek support from the criminal justice system.27 Accessing justice is a major concern for Aboriginal women, who experience high rates of violence ranging from assault to murder.28

And the ACC also commissioned a major economic consulting firm to develop a computer - based model of basic law firm economics.

Today, Enid holds the largest grain storage capacity of any city in Oklahoma, and has expanded its economic base to include major players in healthcare and manufacturing, including Integris Health and the St. Mary's Regional Medical Center.

The firm's estimates are based on a model which observes data culled from major publishers, economic conditions, discussions with stakeholders, and past trends and performances.

«Korea Pay's Service is the first domestic company to provide mobile gift certificates and solutions through more than 400 domestic channels, including Starbucks, Outback, and Kakao Talk, based on alliances with major domestic franchises,» the Economic Review detailed.

OKLink, a Hong Kong - based global blockchain money network, is offering $ 100 million in free remittance trades to international remittance companies; MAST improving Bitcoin in three main ways such as extending smart contract flexibility; improving scalability; and increasing privacy; The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2016 professors Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, transforming contract theory; the first ever official Russian real estate listing for bitcoins and major securities exchange in Abu Dhabi has announced the launch of a blockchain - enabled voting service.

(i) recognising Indigenous peoples» cultural connections to homelands (whether on a visiting or permanent basis) but avoiding expectations of major investment in service provision where there are few economic or educational opportunities; and

Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg, anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4 Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition to clinical treatment of severe problems.5 6 Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy to date for treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes to treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based treatments.

She has developed a resilience - oriented, community - based practice approach to strengthen families in crisis (e.g. major trauma; loss); in disruptive transitions (separation, divorce; migration); and facing challenges of persistent, multi-stress conditions (e.g. illness, disability; economic hardship; discrimination).

The methodology emphasizes the definition of optimum land use programming and associated real estate product mix based on balancing three major factors: site physical capability, market demand forecast and economic modeling.