Sentences with phrase «national economic program»

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Fingert was the National Economic Council lead for the White House Smart Cities program.

He was also the National Economic Council lead for the White House «Smart Cities» program, which aims to infuse new technology in U.S. cities.

The first group of so - called debt hawks sees another Great Recession coming and wants national governments to focus on austerity programs aimed at deficit reduction because rising sovereign debts are behind our current economic woes.

The National Front in 2014 set up a collective of young entrepreneurs, the Collectif Audace, who say they're encouraged by the candidate's «France first» economic program.

«There's a broad transformation within health care that can happen — not where a startup becomes Apple, but where startups work with big health care institutions and providers to transform how they deliver care,» says Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist, former adviser to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and director of the health care program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Commodity prices may be affected by a variety of factors at any time, including but not limited to, (i) changes in supply and demand relationships, (ii) governmental programs and policies, (iii) national and international political and economic events, war and terrorist events, (iv) changes in interest and exchange rates, (v) trading activities in commodities and related contracts, (vi) pestilence, technological change and weather, and (vii) the price volatility of a commodity.

This monetarist theory has guided Russian economic reform (and its quick bankruptcy) under Yeltsin and his oligarchy, as well as Chile's privatization (and early bankruptcy) under Gen. Pinochet, and the austerity programs (and subsequent bankruptcies and national resource sell offs) imposed by the IMF on third world debtor countries.

«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.

This knowledge is equally vital to international, national and regional government leaders tasked with aligning economic policies and stimulus programs to their population's evolving needs and desires.

To motivate a national program, strong evidence of national economic slack is needed.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

They may allow «national planning» of a sort (as in France); they may allow welfare programs; they may allow some progressive taxation; but what they will not allow is an invasion of the autonomy of the private corporation so that economic decisions can be coordinated and made on a basis other than profits.

It was also the economic theory underlying the development assistance programs of both multilateral and national development aid programs.

A second observation is that it is precisely at the national headquarters levels of the typical western church that the Inertia of church organization and staff exerts Its most debilitating Influence on the capacity of the church to effect change in its own program or in the policies of the economic and political institutions In which It Is enmeshed.

A multitude of local programs, differing according to the national cultures and social systems in which they sparing up, struggle to improve public education, deliver medical care, reduce crime, and enhance economic opportunity.

Partly it has been a function of imitation, beginning in the nineteenth century with Bismarck's social welfare programs in Germany, and partly it has been prompted by international economic competition, again starting in the nineteenth century, with national governments playing an increasing role in regulating and promoting all forms of economic activity.

The sort of program for which the world crisis calls should be greater by a factor of ten; the National Council of Churches has recommended $ 3 billion per year for economic development abroad.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) today sent a letter to Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) William E. Kovacic as follow - up to the Georgetown Economic Services («GES») September 22, 2008 report on advertising food and beverages to children, «Food, Beverage and Restaurant Advertising in 2007 — Children's Impressions and Expenditures on Children's Programs».

[19] See U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Balancing Nutrition, Participation, and Cost in the National School Lunch Program, Amber Waves, September 2008.

By eliminating the National School Lunch Program's guaranteed federal funding, states run the risk of running out of money in an economic downturn and putting hungry kids at risk.

«They were programmed into the national budget and utilized by the Nigerian government in line with its National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy national budget and utilized by the Nigerian government in line with its National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS).

When the program launched in 2001, New York shot to the top of the national rankings for average spending on economic development, according to research by Timothy Bartik, senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

The Reform Party SUPPORTS policies and programs that best guarantee the security of our national borders, the safety of our citizens and the economic interests of our country.

«Here we are in the ninth longest national economic expansion and as we see over the last eight years we keep cutting funding for a lot of core state programs to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals in the state.»

National Security - The Reform Party supports policies and programs that best guarantee the security of our national borders, the safety of our citizens and the economic interests of our National Security - The Reform Party supports policies and programs that best guarantee the security of our national borders, the safety of our citizens and the economic interests of our national borders, the safety of our citizens and the economic interests of our country.

Through initiatives such as their Power Enhancement Program, Strategic Economic Development Outreach Program, Manufacturing Productivity Program, and Targeted Financial Assistance Program one can see the many signs of economic development spurred by NationEconomic Development Outreach Program, Manufacturing Productivity Program, and Targeted Financial Assistance Program one can see the many signs of economic development spurred by Nationeconomic development spurred by National Grid.

National Grid has also committed millions of dollars to Niagara County through its Economic Development Grant Program.

On July 11, over 140 scientific societies and universities sent a letter urging U.S. policymakers, in their need to cut spending, to avoid singling out specific programs - such as the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences - and to refrain from bypassing independent peer review.

Enhancing economic might ARPA — E is not just about the climate either; economic and national security implications also drive this small government program.

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China's National Development and Reform Commission launched seven regional trading programs in 2013 in a range of economic conditions, from industry - heavy Chongqing in the west to the urban hubs of Beijing and Shenzhen in the east.

«And some of these surprising successes, like in Mexico and Central Africa, result from national programs and other economic policies that did not work as initially designed.»

This was the subject of a recent meeting convened by the Network on the Scientific Workforce of the National Bureau for Economic Research and the Labor and Workforce Program of Harvard Law School.

The bill also protects funding for critical national and regional waterways — which handle commerce valued at more than $ 2 trillion annually — through the Army Corps of Engineers, and programs that encourage energy independence and economic competitiveness.

Caroline M. Hoxby is professor of economics at Stanford University and director of the Economics of Education program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

«This is a chance for the teacher, while still maintaining control of a classroom, to share with students at their level,» says Liz Sullivan, coauthor of the «Teachers Talk» report and education program director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a nonresident senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.

The National Council on Economic Education A nationwide program for economic education in America's schools, the council maintains a database of excellent economic and entrepreneurial lessons, accessible by title, grade level, concept, or sEconomic Education A nationwide program for economic education in America's schools, the council maintains a database of excellent economic and entrepreneurial lessons, accessible by title, grade level, concept, or seconomic education in America's schools, the council maintains a database of excellent economic and entrepreneurial lessons, accessible by title, grade level, concept, or seconomic and entrepreneurial lessons, accessible by title, grade level, concept, or standard.

The grant will support the creation of the National Adult Literacy Center at HGSE, a collaborative effort between HGSE and World Education, a nonprofit economic and social development organization with expertise in programs for adult literacy.

«Evaluating the Impact of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program,» National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10658, (2004)

Initially released as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research in December 2015 and later published in the American Economic Journal, Pathak and colleagues» study of the program's first - year outcome data showed significant negative impacts associated with voucher usage in Louisiana.

For more information on the program and research results, please see «The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment,» National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper at www.nber.org.

Mr. Bedrick is right that a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research showed very low performance among students in Louisiana's voucher program compared to the performance of students not offered a voucher (who thus remained in a local public school).

- Caroline M. Hoxby is professor of economics at Harvard University and the director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke University, Parag Pathak of MIT, and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley found that students who received a voucher through the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) during the 2012 - 13 school year were 50 percent more likely to receive a failing score on the state math test than students who applied for but did not receive a voucher.

A 2014 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program concluded that, on average, FTC students neither gained nor lost ground in achievement in math and reading compared to students nationally.

An analysis of national Head Start data also suggests that children who enrolled in the program full day performed better in reading and math.Christopher R. Walters, «Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start,» American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7, no. 4 (2015): 76 — 102.

Evaluation of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program Participation, Compliance and Test Scores in 2012 - 13 (University of Florida Northwestern University and National Bureau of Economic Research).

The National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) released in December 2015 the first nationally recognized random assignment study to ever demonstrate that a school voucher program — LSP — had a negative effect on student achievement in its first year.