Sentences with phrase «national economic imperative»

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«It is imperative for all of the major stakeholders in women's enterprise development — in policymaking, program development, capital, research, and organizational capacity - building — to move forward in the same direction, to not only increase our national competitiveness but to level the economic playing field.

Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird has called it a «national imperative» that Canada assume a more active role in Asia and take advantage of economic opportunities.

Liberation movements of some sort now seem imperative to more national, economic and ethnic groups.

«Therefore, it is imperative to mainstream STI in our national economic policy.

These kinds of incentives are imperative for protecting our economic, energy and national security and providing business certainty.

The summit was hosted by the National Security Council and focused on three areas: Studying, Volunteering, and Working Abroad as a Civic and Economic Imperative; Pushing Greater Diversity of Travelers, Destinations, and Fields — Pushing Through the Barriers; and Cultural Exploration.

It's often claimed that if climate is discussed as a national security issue, an economic opportunity, or a religious / moral imperative, it will bring skeptics over.

Promising to save the country from both severe recession and industrial decline, Obama described the transformation of the United States» energy economy as a defining challenge of his presidency — an economic and national security imperative that Congress would fail to address at the country's peril.

Preventing catastrophic climate change is a moral, economic and national security imperative.

Globally, the dominant economic intervention affecting food pricing is national taxation on food to raise general revenue.17, 18 In Australia, the basic foods required to maintain health were mostly exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and the price of these foods was expected to fall after the introduction of the new tax system in 2000.19 However, in Queensland from 2000 to 2001, the price of a basket of healthy foods increased by 12 %, more than twice that of less healthy options.20 This highlights the unpredictability of complex economic systems and the need for rigorous testing of economic solutions to increase access to healthy food.18 Such testing is imperative within remote communities, but baseline data are not readily available as Australia lacks a comprehensive food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance system.