Sentences with phrase «measured by economic growth»

Many countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have made remarkable progress in recent years, as measured by economic growth and reduction in poverty.

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Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

Figure 1 shows this value - destroying behavior in action for GE (GE) by comparing between the amount of money spent buying back shares and the price to economic book value (PEBV), a measure of the growth expectations embedded in the stock price.

For most of the public, the reputation of the Federal Reserve will continue to be measured mainly by our success in promoting economic growth with price stability, rather than by our interactions with educators and students.

To eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16, the CCPA assumes that the net impact of these measures will result in higher economic growth and increased employment, resulting in increased revenues to the federal government of about $ 4.5 billion, on average, per year.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

In most economies, GDP growth is a measure of economic output generated by the performance of the underlying economy.

Roadmap 2020 recommendations focus on six key areas: Measuring Economic Impact and Job Creation; Entrepreneurial Training and Support for Growth — including by entrepreneurial women of color; Innovation, Technology and Sustainability; Accessing Capital; Accessing Markets; and Building the Movement.

Minister Flaherty had done an excellent job of pre-conditioning on what to expect: a commitment to eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16; no new «risky» spending; some funding for infrastructure and skills training; and further restraint measures to offset revenue losses due to slower economic growth in 2013.

The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) measured by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is a key metric of the pace of economic aEconomic Analysis (BEA) is a key metric of the pace of economic aeconomic activity.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

Economic Reports Scorecard The economic data released since my last update has been fairly positive but future growth and inflation expectations, as measured by our market indicators, have waned consiEconomic Reports Scorecard The economic data released since my last update has been fairly positive but future growth and inflation expectations, as measured by our market indicators, have waned consieconomic data released since my last update has been fairly positive but future growth and inflation expectations, as measured by our market indicators, have waned considerably.

This was primarily due to accelerated repayments of contributions by Pratt & Whitney Canada In 2015 - 16, which decreased transfers in that year, along with the impact of measures contained in Budget 2016 to foster economic growth.

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

However, its monetary policy dictated by austerity measures is killing economic growth.

The part that is left over — that is, the part of economic growth that can not be explained by the accumulation of capital and labour inputs — is what economists call multifactor productivity (MFP), an index that is widely interpreted as a measure of technical progress.

Basically their figures showed that growth in gross product and growth in welfare rose together from 1939 to 1947 but that since then a large continuing growth in product was accompanied by very little improvement as judged by the Measure of Economic Welfare.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

Initially, the bank's program for alleviating global poverty was dominated by a strategy of economic growth, measured primarily in terms of GDP and channeled largely through big projects aimed at infrastructure development that benefited the rich more than the poor.

We suspected that the decline in correlation of improvement in economic welfare and growth in market activity had continued, and we thought that using a widely recognized measure, developed by respected economists, would give some authority to the results.

The results show that during the past twenty years economic growth as measured by current indicators, especially Gross Domestic Product per capita, has been accompanied by decline in real economic wellbeing.

In such a world, communities could measure their economic wellbeing by whether the basic needs of all citizens are met rather than by the growth of their product.

A progressive economic framework would prioritise measures that can restore economic growth — principally by raising the, currently collapsed, level of investment.

The governor maintained that the economic growth of a nation could only be measured by the welfare of the people.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

As the only legislative leader who has owned and run a successful business, I will continue to promote measures like the «Small Business Full Employment Act» (A.5898 - A), which would create an environment for small businesses to grow by eliminating unnecessary taxes, and «Grow NY» (A. 6105, Kolb), which is an economic pilot program that would stimulate growth in the state economy by providing technical assistance for expanding businesses, and by eliminating certain taxes on manufacturers (A. 6758, Kolb).

These comments were widely seen as an attempt to present a distinctive Lib Dem position on the economy which rejected many of the measures currently being utilised by the Chancellor to stimulate economic growth.

Recent work in which Dennis Kimko and I have been engaged has looked closely at the size of the impact of labor force quality, as measured by tests of cognitive ability, on the economic growth of countries.

The conclusions of this emerging body of research are clear: education quality, as measured by test scores, is positively related to the earnings of individuals, national productivity, and economic growth.

No less important is the overall relationship between the quality of the labor force, as measured by tests of cognitive skill, and economic growth.

Variations in skills measured by the international achievement tests are in turn strongly related to individual labor - market outcomes and, perhaps more importantly, to cross-country variations in economic growth.

This PISA report, presented at the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, uses economic modeling to relate cognitive skills (as measured by PISA) to economicEconomic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, uses economic modeling to relate cognitive skills (as measured by PISA) to economiceconomic modeling to relate cognitive skills (as measured by PISA) to economiceconomic growth.

The technical indicator of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP), although the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) does not necessarily need to see this occur to call a recessioneconomic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP), although the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) does not necessarily need to see this occur to call a recessionEconomic Research (NBER) does not necessarily need to see this occur to call a recession.»

It's tough to argue that the Euro region wasn't going to have to enact austerity measures eventually to ensure long - term viability, but by tightening the spigot, history dictates that economic growth suffers in the near - term.

History has shown strong correlations between economic growth, as measured by GDP, and corporate profit growth.

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

It also expects the adjustments to trim the forecast for Canada's real gross domestic product — a measure of economic growth — by up to 0.05 per cent over the same period.

The long - term rise shows that even with steady reduction in emissions compared to economic growth (that old «intensity» measure preferred by the Bush administration), emissions still rise overall along with the American population and resulting resource consumption.

But, as DOE points out, even with all the regulatory measures that were in place as of 2013, due to economic growth, their Reference Case emissions will increase by 236 MMT between 2012 and 2025 (EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2014, p. A-5).

The figures say that this 77 % of energy from renewables by 2050 can be achieved with zero impact on either global economic growth (measured in GDP per capita at purchasing power parity) or on population growth compared with the «do nothing» baseline.

These are blended into the influential Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) that says population and economic growth measured by CO2 have caused temperature increase and the solution is to stop the economic growth and reduce the population.

China has said it will try to voluntarily reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide per unit of economic growth — a measure known as «carbon intensity» — by 40 to 45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

However, it is also evident that in the United States economic growth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is decoupling from electricity demand.

For the measures with wider deviations, many factors contribute to differences between the AEO Reference case projections and realized outcomes, but two primary contributors are the initial projections of future oil prices and overall economic activity that are used in NEMS.5 These projections can greatly influence the other projections made by the model, which is why each recent AEO includes alternative cases exploring differences in economic growth (Low and High Economic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Priceeconomic activity that are used in NEMS.5 These projections can greatly influence the other projections made by the model, which is why each recent AEO includes alternative cases exploring differences in economic growth (Low and High Economic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Priceeconomic growth (Low and High Economic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Price cgrowth (Low and High Economic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil PriceEconomic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Price cGrowth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Price cases).

Whenever the models will get higher resolution, they may calculate or catch up what we are measuring every day, mean time we can clearly see (6 billion of us) that we are responsible for this warming, and that it is likely going faster, in direct proportionality with humanities world wide economic output driven by growth, and sadly of course its by - product, pollution.

Economic growth — as measured by gross domestic product (GDP)-- is a key determinant in the growth of energy demand.

That is twice the rate of economic growth as measured by the GDP.

The austerity measures recently implemented by many E.U. nations could result in slower economic growth and reduced imports from the U.S..

Growth of the economy in the final quarter of 2012, as measured by the change in Gross Domestic Product, actually came in negative -LRB--0.1 %) per the first estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.