Sentences with phrase «more aggressive policy»

Transportation and infrastructure were also at the top of the agenda, with all three presumptive candidates pushing for a more aggressive policy.

Concerns of rising inflation and the potential for more aggressive policy tightening from the U.S. Federal Reserve sparked initial volatility.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

Again, as many as three rate hikes are expected in 2017 — unlike the one this year — with Fed Chair Janet Yellen commenting that economic conditions have improved well enough to warrant a more aggressive policy.

He explained this could mean Iran using a more aggressive policy in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen or — most dangerously — toward Saudi Arabia.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

According to an analysis from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), released in December, more aggressive policies like these could cut emissions from fossil fuel plants by 26 per cent, from 2005 levels, by 2020 — equivalent to an additional 10 per cent shaved off total US emissions.

That decision gave Clinton credibility on climate change as she faced Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, both of whom were promoting more aggressive policies than Clinton to reduce greenhouse gases.

Tubman co-authored a recent C2ES report called «Leveraging Natural Gas to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,» which recognized natural gas as a short - term climate solution but called for more aggressive policies and investments to promote zero - carbon sources like renewables over the long haul.

New Brunswick receives about five per cent more sunlight than Nova Scotia, and stakeholders would like to see New Brunswick develop more aggressive policies around renewable energy.

It could open the door to more aggressive policies.

European countries continue to assess more aggressive policies that favor or mandate zero - emission vehicles to move away from fossil fuels for transportation.

Not exact matches

Abe has pressured the country's central bank to adopt a more aggressive monetary policy.

Iran's re-emergence is making Saudi foreign policy more aggressive, while undermining the economies of Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations.

That means the Fed will likely have to get more, rather than less, aggressive in its efforts to «normalize» interest rate policy.

The Fed, Wednesday's statement notwithstanding, will likely have to get more, rather than less, aggressive in its efforts to «normalize» interest rate policy.

It could be even worse this time because the policies are that much more aggressive than they were back then:

The United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands are among the nations that are more aggressive about auditing foreign companies» transfer - pricing policies.

In 2010, Russ Shay, the Alliance's public policy director, privately urged IRS officials to crack down on the syndicators through more aggressive action than individual audits — perhaps by issuing a public advisory.

«I believe policymakers should have been much more aggressive in tightening policy and rejecting the fiscal impropriety associated with this most recent tax cut... The die has been cast by the Fed and other central banks and future policy prescriptions are predictable.»

First, Trump's focus in dealing with the corporate world is preserving American jobs, while antitrust policy is more about the consumer than the worker (although some argue that workers benefit from aggressive antitrust enforcement because mergers seek corporate streamlining, leading to fewer jobs).

Looking forward, following many years of rising valuations on the back of aggressive monetary policy, I believe market returns are likely to be more muted in 2016.

The president views trade deficits as a sign of economic weakness that can be brought down by more aggressive trade policies.

Nevertheless, I also conclude that, with the benefit of hindsight, monetary policy needed to be still more aggressive.

A more front - loaded program would avoid greater attenuation compared with a policy that started out less aggressive but added stimulus gradually over time.

After all, on the other side of the ledger, the policy response following the crisis has been much more aggressive than is typical.

Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.

Lighthizer, who is seen as solidifying his control over trade policy, is considered more aggressive about overhauling NAFTA than is Gary Cohn, head of Trump's National Economic Council.

Discomfort with the authoritarian drift of politics and policymaking in Eastern Europe, and the consequences of Russia's aggressive foreign policy, more than offset fresh commitments to South Africa and Saudi Arabia Equity Funds.

«The review for downgrade reflects the magnitude of this debt - financed transaction, which evidences a more aggressive financial policy,» said Yasmina Serghini, a Moody's analyst.

The US policy response to the global financial crisis was early and aggressive, which is at least partially why its economy bounced back so much more quickly than other major developed markets.

Different banks can have different policies, some more aggressive, some more conservative.

Finally, we believe that adding fiscal stimulus this late in the business cycle warrants concern, because any sign of weakening growth likely will need to be addressed through more aggressive monetary policy in the future, at least in the short term.

These moves are all part of the club's move to adopt a more aggressive transfer policy, one which the Daily Telegraph states will see Man United ready, willing and able to sign a «Luis Suarez a year».

China of the late 20th Century - early 21st Century is not the same as Japan or Germany in the 1930s; instead China is and will be a peaceful rising power, and the assertive behaviour of the earlier period was not reflective of a more aggressive foreign policy.

Republicans in the state Senate are becoming «more aggressive» this year in challenging the policies of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Deputy Majority Leader John DeFranciso said Wednesday in a radio interview.

The appeal of these messages to certain voters, together with an aggressive international policy demanding NATO members and other Allies fund more of their own defence, enabled Trump to succeed despite his refusal to release his tax returns and his xenophobia and misogyny.

The fact that King will miss the opportunity to weigh in on legislation regarding education policy seems to matter less since Cuomo and lawmakers have become more aggressive in crafting it themselves, in spite of education leaders» opinions.

And like the mayor, he said that he will fight against Trump's pledge to institute more aggressive stop - and - frisk policing throughout the country as a federal policy.

Voting, government ethics, and campaign finance reforms are among many of Cuomo's 2017 policy proposals that did not materialize last year, either due to resistance from the Legislature, a lack of more aggressive lobbying by the governor, or other challenges.

Last summer he was appointed director of Policy Exchange and has moved it on to a more aggressive, free - market agenda.

The rapid gentrification of many large American cities represents a triumph and an opportunity for Republicans — a triumph because it was mainly Republican ideas (welfare reform, aggressive crime - fighting tactics, pro-growth policies) that set the trend in motion, and an opportunity because the wealthier, and frankly whiter, new residents are more likely to vote for the GOP.

There could be modest gains: Republicans would have more leeway to hammer on President Barack Obama's education policies, which they see as aggressive federal overreach.

20 The DCL further contained the most thorough details to date of schools» specific obligations to combat gender - based violence and harassment.21 With the issuance of this letter, OCR signaled that the government would initiate a more aggressive enforcement policy to hold schools accountable for Title IX violations.

First, stricter evaluation requirements should probably be coupled with more aggressive teacher recruitment and retention policies.

The Gates, Broad and Walton foundations may be more aggressive about trying to direct a policy course, but they didn't invent the idea of meddling in the political process.

The waiver application state officials submitted in November reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education, and like a game plan for big changes to state education policy that are still to come, including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

The document reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education in recent years, and like a game plan for big changes to the state's education policy that are still to come — including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

Arizona's future rests on the success of elementary - and high - school students, so businesses must take a more aggressive role in shaping state education policy, according to former Intel Corp. chairman Craig Barrett.

Should we expect more as the US heads into a ZIRP [zero interest rate policy], with aggressive expansion of the Fed's balance sheet, much of which might be eventually monetized?