Sentences with phrase «national growth rate of»

I don't see a national growth rate of much more than 2 percent, which will tend to offset the lower interest rates.

However, nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 1.1 % in Minnesota between November 2014 and November 2015, lower than the national growth rate of 1.9 % over that year.

North Carolina saw a 2.2 % increase in nonfarm payroll jobs between November 2014 and November 2015, slightly above the national growth rate of 1.9 %.

Not exact matches

Despite that growth, the state's unemployment rate of 5.7 % remains well above the national rate of 5.0 %.

However, the state's job - growth rate was somewhat below average, with a 1.3 % increase in nonfarm payroll jobs between November 2014 and November 2014, a bit lower than the national increase of 1.9 %.

Yet over the past ten years, the national debt has grown from $ 9.4 trillion to over $ 21 trillion - a growth rate of 123 %!

Second, as national population growth rates came down gradually, governments would be able to better meet the needs of all their people.

The latest national accounts are now a bit dated, but they show a high rate of growth, over the year to the September quarter, of just over 4 per cent (Graph 10).

Alberta will stand atop the provincial growth rankings, well ahead of Ontario, the only other province to grow at or above the national rate.

Yet over the past ten years, the national debt has grown from $ 9.4 trillion to over $ 21 trillion — a growth rate of 123 %.»

This strength in employment is somewhat at odds with the relatively weak rate of growth indicated by the national accounts.

The S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices released for February 2018 indicated that home prices nationwide, the National Home Price Index, rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 6.3 % in February, modestly slower than the 6.7 % increase in January.

The Case - Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, reported by S&P Dow Jones Indices, rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 8.4 % in November, unchanged from October.

National GDP grew by just 0.02 per cent, compared to September, equivalent to an annual growth rate of 0.2 per cent.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

The moderation in the rate of growth in the national measures is accounted for by developments in Sydney and Melbourne.

Maryland's job growth of 2.2 percent outpaced the national rate of 1.4, and ranked the state sixth for job growth, Basu said.

The Case - Shiller (CS) National Home Price Index, reported by S&P Dow Jones Indices, rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 5.0 % in February, down from 5.8 % in January.

By the late 1980s, more than seventy of the world's governments reported that they viewed their national fertility or population growth rates as «unsatisfactory,» and that they considered policy interventions to alter these rates to be «appropriate.»

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

Bobo's has enjoyed an impressive annual growth rate of over 50 percent over the past three years, evolving from a home - based operation to national natural foods and specialty store distribution in ten years.

should constitute a national emergency, Nigeria's growth rate of 3.2 percent annually means that our nation will, according to USAID, reach a population of 440 million people by 2040.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

«Whilst these figures are already startling and should constitute a national emergency, Nigeria's growth rate of 3.2 percent annually means that our nation will, according to USAID, reach a population of 440 million people by 2040.

• We promised to restore Teacher training allowances and we have delivered • We promised to end dumsor and we have delivered • We promised to reduced fertilizer prices by 50 % and we have delivered • We promised to establish a Ministry of Zongo and Inner City Affairs and we have delivered • We promised to increase and pay peacekeeping allowances increased from $ 31 to $ 35 and we have delivered • We promised to increase the share of the DACF to persons with disabilities from 2 % to 3 % and we have delivered • We promised a stimulus package to support local industry and we have delivered • We promised to implement a National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan and we have delivered • We promised a more efficient port system and we have delivered • We promised to reduce the rapid rate of borrowing and accumulation of the public debt and we have delivered • We promised to restore economic growth and we have delivered • We promised to reduce inflation and we have delivered.

The Albany - Schenectady - Troy region, which has benefitted from billions of dollars of state - subsidized high - tech investments over the past 20 years, had the strongest performance of the major upstate regions during Cuomo's first term — but still trailed the national and statewide growth rates for the four - year and one - year periods.

[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.

It is twice the national rate of growth, tourism jobs increased by 25,000 which is also twice the national rate of growth.

The 2017 budget was to ensure confidence in the economy — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:52 The cedi remains relatively stable against he major currencies — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:51 Interest rate in 2017 continue to decline — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:50 Inflation continue to decline in 2017 — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:48 We have returned to a robust growth after 2016 recorded the worst growth in three decades — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:47 The call to relieve our country and people from a wretched existence is urgent — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:45 The should not simply be a statement to share the national cake between different groups but it should capture how a nation comes together to meet the challenges of our time — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:45 We plan on providing opportunities as many Ghanaians as possible.

Job growth in the upstate region has dipped far below the national average, with a rate of 2.7 percent in growth from December 2010 to December 2016, compared to 11 percent nationally during that time.

But the Business Council was unimpressed, noting that the state is recording a 1 percent growth rate, below the national average of 1.2 percent over the last 12 months.

All 12 of the metro areas in New York State had economic growth rates below the national average last year.

The state's growth rate was at 2.19 %, well below the national rate of 9.7 %.

The National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday reported that Nigerian economy was now out of recession with a growth rate of 0.55 per cent recorded in the second quarter of 2017.

National Science Foundation figures showed in 1998 that the rate of growth for female doctorates averaged 7.5 % per year, though the percentages are distributed differently by discipline.

«On the whole, children in NC Pre-K exceed normal expectations for the rate of developmental growth, both while in the program and afterward in kindergarten,» said Ellen Peisner - Feinberg, director of FPG's National Pre-K and Early Learning Evaluation Center and lead author of the report.

But abolishing turgor pressure didn't change E. coli's growth rate, Huang and colleagues reported in 2014 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Given that Canada is currently experiencing a rapid growth in the population of foreign - born citizens — one of the highest rates of any Western nation — the mental health status of immigrants and refugees should be a national priority,» writes Dr. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor at Western University, London, Ontario, and a fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), with coauthors.

Coupled with an emissions growth rate of 3.3 percent — triple the growth rate of the 1990s — the atmospheric burden is now rising by nearly two parts per million of CO2 a year, the fastest growth rate since 1850, the international team of researchers reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Mander, a chemist from the Australian National University in Canberra, has developed a version of a plant growth hormone which keeps grass lush and green but slows its growth to about a third of its normal rate.

The strength of the program, he suggests, was already evident by its third year; by then the growth rate of minority STEM degrees at H - LSAMP universities was more than six times the national rate.

Despite a dearth in available academic tenure - track positions in and a drop in National Institutes of Health success rates, there has been sustained growth in the number of biomedical postdocs due to an abundance -LSB-...]

«The Growth Rate of Crystalline Ice and the Diffusivity of Supercooled Water from 126 K to 262 K.» Proceedings of the National Academies of Science USA Early Edition, December 12, 2016.

In March, researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico used computer simulations to calculate the rate of evolution of supermassive black holes if their growth is fed by cold and dense accretion streams.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the total population of the metropolitan area of Perth 202 million (2014), it is Australia's fourth largest city, population growth rates higher than the national average statistics.

Another school profiled is the Denver School of Science and Technology, which enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved «national renown» for its results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.

The area also is in the midst of a five - year decline in the rate of charter growth, mirroring the national trend.

These laissez - faire positions have netted them mediocre ratings from organizations like the National Association of Charter School Authorizers that favor a more - regulated approach to charter growth.

In particular, the study examines ratings derived from criteria favored by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to see if they are predictive of test score growth or enrollment growth.

If one compares the growth in student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) during the years the Bush Administration was in office with the growth during the first two years of the Obama Administration, as I have done in a recent op - ed piece, it becomes pretty clear that the annual growth rate was substantially higher when George W. Bush was in office.