Sentences with phrase «much higher economic cost»

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That's the average estimate, but the report notes that «there is a risk those costs could be not just higher, but much higher»: the model found a five per cent chance that the economic cost to Canada in 2050 could be greater than $ 91 billion.

I think high costs [eroding already lower returns] are as much of a risk for investors as the [economic situation] in Europe or China.

«To succeed in the Gig Economy, we need to create a financially flexible life of lower fixed costs, higher savings, and much less debt,» Diane Mulcahy, a senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and a lecturer at Babson College, writes in her book «The Gig Economy,» which is part economic argument and part how - to guide.

«Britain simply can not afford the human and economic costs of child poverty levels much higher than our European competitors.»

After much anticipation, the city Economic Development Corp. released a $ 1 million study on living wage policy today, which finds implementing higher pay standards at city subsidized developments would cost jobs.

Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»

We interviewed tourism officials who expressed caution about clamping down too much on development, given the lack of growth in other economic sectors, and fisherman concerned that no - fishing zones could end fishing altogether — saying local fisherman aren't the main problem and are already facing high fuel costs and competition from cheaper seafood imports.

Environmental groups claim that their favored but much higher cost and less reliable — and thus damaging to economic development — «renewable» sources should be used, of course, but this would hinder economic development since available resources would produce less development.

According to Scott Kennedy of Cornerstone, a Vancouver architecture firm Passive House makes a lot of economic sense; in multiple family building the ratio of surface area (the expensive part in Passive) is much smaller so the costs are only about four percent higher than conventional construction.