Sentences with phrase «national economies at»

The world and national economies at their worst are always more volatile than what the models will say, and governments prove weak when matched against the folly of their failed policies.

According to Dr. Chambas, the request by 200 Ghanaians for asylum in Brazil though «unfounded, frivolous and regrettable,» was an indication of the «precarious state of the national economy at the...

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By educating yourself on the general state of the economy, what decisions are being made at the national level, and how economic forecasts might affect your industry, you can put yourself a step ahead of others.

It's appropriate for the government to take a look at the national economy... and the greater public interest.»

In his paper «Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies,» he writes: «A local resident who goes to an All - Star Game when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the game.

Some Brits gasped recently upon learning Queen Elizabeth II's income will rise 5 % next year — to # 37.9 million from # 36.1 million — at a time when the national economy is suffering.

Our own national economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 % in the fourth quarter of 2010, a full percentage point above what the Bank of Canada expected.

Japan this year became the first country to regulate exchanges at the national level, part of a government effort to exploit financial technology as a means of stimulating the economy.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre called the PBO's findings «damaging» for the government, citing the impact of larger deficits, higher debt payments and a carbon tax that he says will erase at least $ 10 billion per year from the national economy by 2022.

That's because with larger acquisitions, «you start getting questions on national security... and overall stability and growth of the Chinese economy, so there's a lot more scrutiny over large, marquee deals,» said Benjamin Cavender, principal at consulting firm China Market Research.

Pay has failed to accelerate in part because many Americans are still uncertain about the economy's long - term health, said Mike Schenk, a senior economist at the Credit Union National Association.

The hope is that it dissuades banks from parking their cash at the national bank, opting instead to invest in the Swiss economy.

The official word from China's National Bureau of Statistics says its economy grew at a 7.3 percent annualized pace in the third quarter.

It's contribution to the national economy in this regard is unmatched, and its efficiency at providing those services is largely unrewarded — high - volumes with very low labour costs i.e. few BC jobs and wages.

A useful piece on the «new» Danish Economy and why it works by Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at the (American) New Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, a US - based national, non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organization.

Whereas the old capitalism was militarized, the new financial capitalism has led to such heavy national debts that economies no longer can afford conventional warfare (at least not the old fashioned kind; Vietnam ended that forever).

Bryan Riley, director of the Free Trade Initiative at the National Taxpayers Union, said that an increase in the trade deficit from the prior year «should not be viewed as a problem to be fixed, but as a predictable result of a growing economy that enables people to afford more imports.»

[40][41] It has been the world's largest national economy (not including colonial empires) since at least the 1890s.

The SBIR program was created to support scientific excellence and technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds in critical American priorities to build a strong national economy... one business at a time.

In the most current declarations in regard to the UK economic growth disturbance reported by the Confederation of British Industry it is expressive as the trend is at par with other major national economies of the European...

The recently announced preliminary third - quarter GDP (gross domestic product) numbers from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the UK economy expanded at 0.4 percent, modestly higher than the 0.3 percent in the second quarter and more than estimated by the central bank staff.

Taking a look at the U.S. government's budget deficit track record and what's to come for the U.S. economy ahead, financial analyst Michael Lombardi believes our national debt will double to $ 34.0 trillion in the years ahead.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

Just two and a half months after the US national deficit surpassed $ 20 Trillion for the first time ever, the United States government has now managed to rack up another half Trillion and the outstanding debt of the world's largest economy now stands at...

Interview with Sulaiman Al - Marzouq, head of treasury at National Bank of Kuwait, about changes in Gulf economies and NBK's role in development.

The speed at which the recent financial crisis spread to all corners of the globe shows how porous and interlinked national economies and markets are, and, in an integrated world, we need uniform regulation that creates a level playing field across economies and markets.

Some of those macro forces include a deceleration in places like the U.K., where the economy grew at the slowest pace in more than five years in the first quarter of 2018, according to a report from the Office for National Statistics on Friday.

The tropical - forest zones are being incorporated into the national economy, at a high ecological and social cost, due to the rapid expansion of extensive cattle - ranching....

Although trade among nations was strongly encouraged, all those involved at Bretton Woods still envisioned that this trade would be among nations, each of which would have its own national economy.

The same tax - dodging religion whose medæval dogma kept their parents from responsibly using contraception to avoid filling the ghettoes with unwanted, unsupervised, uneducated kids at the least crushing our national economy with welfare burdens and often slaughtering innocents with gun violence gets credit for a happy ending?

There are two principal types of socialism: «full socialism» in which the state owns all (or the vast majority) of business and industry and controls production and marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial socialism», in which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors of the economy to operate as free enterprise capitalism.

a very thin skinned religious person who basically focuses all of his energy on worshiping on himself... What do you call it when the President disregards the definition of radical islamic muslims... wolf in sheep clothing... The bigger issue at hand is the economy, job creation, national debt, and maintaining a good middle class... all of which over the last 4 years has been failing..

For example, we should oppose the Multilateral Agreement on Investments, whose only justification is the further globaliztion of the economy at the expense of local business and national governments.

The trend, at present, is a shift from a world economy based on national market economies to a borderless global market economy increasingly governed by one set of rules.

Daly and Cobb (1989), as well as Eckersley, argue against free trade as it exists in the world today between national economies, because at present free trade destroys existing national and sub-national communities in the name of a mythical world community.

But all of these need to justify themselves, at least in part, by their contribution to the local and national economy.

What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large - scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that «depended on work that had no other object than to keep people at work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained... an approximation of full employment» all without reference to the intrinsic quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction of the work that went into them.»

There is an item in today's Australian by Damon Kitney and Andrew White - «We are an oligopoly economy: Robb», describing opposition finance spokesman, Andrew Robb's, statements at the Global Food Forum series in Sydney, that Australians «should not be opposed to create national champion's and claiming «Australians need to accept that the nation is an «oligopoly economy»».

Since its introduction in 1995, the National Access Regime has influenced the way access negotiations occur across the economy, including in rail, airports, port terminal and grain handling facilities at ports.

The presence of Chinese nationals in Africa's informal economies — displacing petty traders and artisanal gold miners at the bottom of the socio - economic ladder in places like Congo, Mozambique and Zambia — will continue to be a flashpoint for China - Africa relations, as will the volume of cheap Chinese goods moving through porous borders.

Monday 16.00 - Internal Market, Infrastructure and Employment: Women on Boards, Karen Jochelson, Director of Economy and Employment Programme, Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC); Scarlet Harris, Women's Officer, Trades Union Congress (TUC); and (at 5.00 pm) Liz Murrall, Director, Corporate Governance and Reporting, Investment Management Association, and Joanne Segars, Chief Executive, National Association of Pension Funds Ltd (NAPF).

That is why we have said every penny of windfall from the sale of the government's stakes in the banks must be used to repay the national debt — not for a politically timed pre-election giveaway at the expense of taxpayers and the economy.

Whoever emerges at the helm of the African National Congress, a 105 - year - old liberation movement that dominates Africa's most industrialized economy, is likely to become the country's next president after elections in 2019.

At the presidency, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was convening a two - day National Economic Council (NEC) retreat on the economy also commencing March 21st.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Rep. Claudia Tenney will visit local small businesses to highlight National Small Business Week and the vital impact these businesses have on our local economies, Lupos (a meat processing facility known for serving their famous chicken spiedies), 1219 Campville Rd., Endicott.

Addressing newsmen after the Federal Executive Council meeting held at the Aso villa, Abuja, Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma said that government has kicked off the process of reviving the ailing economy, saying that the banks would still need the staff later when the economy picks up.

Speaking at a public lecture at the National Theatre on Thursday, September 8, under the theme: «State of Ghana's Economy — Foundation of Concrete or Straw?»

Focus on regional investment in construction to rebalance the UK economy The CIOB will be communicating with prospective parliamentary candidates, urging them to consider the importance of the built environment both at a local and national level.

[132] Together with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Miliband also promoted a «five - point plan for jobs and growth» aimed at helping the UK economy, involving extending the bonus tax on banks pioneered by Alistair Darling, bringing forward planned long - term investment to help reduce unemployment, cutting the rate of VAT from 20 % back to 17.5 %, cutting VAT on home improvements to 5 % for a temporary one - year period, and instigating a one - year National Insurance break to encourage employers to hire more staff.

This is in fact what has happened, in a speech by Johnson at Chatham House, where apart from reference to employment and social rights and how these must be preserved it was largely about our national interest in the form of the economy, investment, security and trade and how these would be threatened by leaving.