Sentences with phrase «many policy initiatives»

If the Xiaomi IPO proceeds, it will fit in well with China's current economic policy initiatives.

Two giant waste - to - energy projects planned for Kwinana and Rockingham could gain extra financial backing after the federal government unveiled a raft of policy initiatives to address problems flowing from China's new restrictions on accepting foreign waste.

Before the vote, D'Alema had appealed to his coalition allies to support his foreign policy initiatives.

The Court Government's 2000 decision to provide a $ 900,000 incentive package to Mediterranean Shipping Company, to relocate its Australasian shipping office from Sydney to Fremantle, is a third policy initiative in WA that appears to run counter to the new agreement.

No wonder we see a poorer quality candidate and hence elected MP in Parliament as well as a dearth of innovative, relevant policy initiatives being proposed by the major parties.

In essence, it has assumed a leadership role in Washington's largest foreign - policy initiative of the 21st century: the «Global War on Terror.»

Numerous policy initiatives have been proposed to flatten the gap in upward mobility.

The job also puts Gore in charge of Dell's global policy initiatives, empowers her to advocate for pro-entrepreneur regulations and has enabled her to reconnect with former colleagues at the U.N. «I've lived and worked in the humanitarian world for my entire career,» she says.

«McDonald's plan is a bold vision that will help preserve the effectiveness of these critical medications to fight infections and keep us healthy,» Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, said in a statement.

«This tax policy initiative seems to be at odds with Canadian international tax policy objectives to discourage taxpayers from deferring Canadian tax by the use of tax havens,» it wrote in a briefing.

In addition to her work with Milstein, she has provided advisory services to government agencies and for policy initiatives, and she speaks frequently for Republican causes, including tax and regulatory reform.

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«We are approaching the point of maximum optimism regarding (Washington) policy initiatives,» Goldman Sachs Group's market analysts warned in a recent note to clients.

Most of this deterioration is due to lower revenues (down $ 3.3 billion), new policy initiatives amounting to just over $ 1 billion and an increase in the «risk adjustment factor» resulting in a loss of revenues of $ 1 billion.

New policy initiatives increase the deficit by $ 1.1 billion in 2012 - 13 but thereafter are virtually neutral.

We find out in this update that the decline in direct program expenses would have been larger had it not been for a policy initiative.

It was another industrious year for the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, with more than 120 successful events and a number of key public policy initiatives that moved our organization forward.

The SBC tailors its events and public policy initiatives to meet the unique needs of small businesses from across Greater Vancouver.

This agency also costs the policy initiatives proposed in each party's election platform.

We accelerate business success through our advocacy and public policy initiatives, our four Signature Programs for professional development, and our 100 + events each year, which educate and connect our region's business community.

«Today's rating actions are primarily driven by our assessment that the policy initiatives that have been taken by European policy makers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic stresses in the euro zone,» S. &.

We also applaud them for identifying and detailing sources of funds for their policy initiatives.

The turnaround is in part due to policy initiatives such as debt - for - equity swaps that helped the largest banks deal with rising debt loads, and a widespread crackdown by the government on shadow banking that has given them an edge over smaller peers.

AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill is a rare opportunity for AWEA members and others who want to help advance wind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal level.

Two particular EU policy initiatives worth highlighting in the context of European responses to China's growing economic footprint in the region are: 1) the Europe's Connectivity Strategy and 2) the on - going debate on a potential EU - wide investment screening mechanism.

It recommends a number of policy initiatives, which it believes the federal government should actively pursue.

New policy initiatives implemented during the course of the fiscal year were identified separately.

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

New policy initiatives usually take more time to be implemented than assumed in the Budget, therefore resulting in less spending that originally assumed.

In addition, by including many major policy initiatives, it precludes substantive policy reviews by the appropriate Parliamentary Committee and by Parliament itself.

Instead, new policy initiatives were implemented in 2014 which significantly reduced the size of the projected surpluses.

It could not be used to finance new policy initiatives.

Instead, it is using the risk adjustment factor to fund new policy initiatives.

When the Main Estimates are tabled before a Budget, they do not include any of the policy initiatives and restraint measures proposed in that Budget.

One would have to go through the individual budgets to derive estimates for the impact of the new policy initiatives — tax and spending changes.

Finally, the PBO expresses concerns over the lack of detailed costing information for new policy initiatives and a plan to secure the spending restraint savings announced in the 2010 Budget.

Thereafter, the positive impact of the higher level of nominal GDP and the saving measures more than offset the fiscal cost of the policy initiatives, resulting in lower deficits than those forecast in the October 2010 Update to 2014 - 15, and a somewhat higher surplus in 2015 - 16.

In the budgets presented by the previous Liberal government, it was clearly stated that the Contingency Reserve was not to be used to finance new policy initiatives.

Higher revenues and lower expenses resulting from the improvement in nominal GDP, coupled with the saving measures implemented in the Budget are just sufficient to offset the impact of the new policy initiatives.

The Blog brings together various stakeholders to explore current trends, best practices and policy initiatives relating to Canadian corporate law, securities regulation and financial markets generally.

A surplus of only $ 200 million is now forecast for 2015 - 16, down $ 3.5 billion from the surplus of $ 3.7 billion forecast in its April 2013 Update, leaving the Government little flexibility to introduce new policy initiatives, or honour its 2011 election promises of introducing new tax expenditures, in advance of the 2015 election.

The contingency reserve would not be used to finance new policy initiatives, such as the Family Tax Cut and the increase to the Universal Child Care Benefit.

They can only be made consistent if Washington also unleashes an infrastructure building program, a policy initiative consistent with either of the other two, on a truly heroic scale — which, as an aside, I suspect would be a smart strategy under any circumstances as American infrastructure needs are so great that the consequent productivity increases would fully service the associated debt long before they stopped adding value to the economy.

These improvements were partially offset by provisions for anticipated Cabinet decisions ($ 0.9 billion) and the impact of new policy initiatives proposed in the March 2017 Budget ($ 0.3 billion).

Discover how six basic principles drive all sorts of things to become contagious, from consumer products and policy initiatives to services and ideas within organizations.

«Fast food restaurants are major purchasers of meat and poultry,» says Jean Halloran, director of Food Policy Initiatives at Consumers Union.

In addition, improved market transparency and monitoring - for example, via more detailed disclosures of market - maker inventories and risk - taking - could help market participants better understand which market segments or trades are likely to be crowded.12 In addition, policymakers may want to assess how the combined impact of regulations and other policy initiatives affect market - making and overall market robustness.

ISI says that over the past 9 months, global short rates have declined -50 bp, and 158 stimulative policy initiatives have been announced around the world.

Policy initiatives on transparency and government accountability, along with formal (albeit belated) responses to injustices in Wukan and other rural communities indicate a willingness to redress human rights issues involving abuses of political authority.

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