Sentences with phrase «not economic progress»

It is now clear that most environmental problems are primarily caused by poverty and related lack of concern, not economic progress, but technological progress is often blocked by environmentalists.

Our Bolga Depot was shut down for so many years, the pipeline from Buipe to Bolga was not operational, today we are pumping fuel from Buipe to Bolga and we are loading 40 trucks a day to Burkina Faso and Mali, I mean if that is not economic progress, I don't know what else anybody will call economic progress, yes we've been through a period of challenges and we've had to make sacrifices as citizens but I believe that in everyone's life, there are times when you have to make sacrifices in order that things get better for the future, we are working to ensure that we create a better future for not only our citizens of today but for our citizens of tomorrow.

Not exact matches

«The relationship between economic development and social progress is not linear,» reads a press release from the Social Progress Impprogress is not linear,» reads a press release from the Social Progress ImpProgress Imperative.

He explained that he is «aware that we all have different values, but I was talking about economic progress when I wrote my report, not [white nationalist] values.»

«Now is not the time for the Commission to abandon 15 years of progress toward protecting the economic future of our country,» the letter said.

«The Complacent Class» focuses on trends like rising segregation, disappointing economic growth and technological progress, and a recent uptick in civil unrest and crime, not to mention the populist backlash that carried Donald Trump to power.

Of course, if half of all states are supporting families» economic progress by offering a higher exit limit than entrance limit, that means that the other half aren't.

For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

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The part that is left over — that is, the part of economic growth that can not be explained by the accumulation of capital and labour inputs — is what economists call multifactor productivity (MFP), an index that is widely interpreted as a measure of technical progress.

Kant's approach may hold at bay the antihumanism of modern science (we are just clever animals in an insignificant corner of a vast cosmos), and it may serve as a bulwark against the ruthless rationality of economic efficiency and the putative demands of progress, but Michalson concludes that Kant's approach to the question of God makes theology less and not more plausible.

Popularly regarded as progress, this colonizing process has reached a point where it does not lead to authentic development in the country, but leads instead to its impoverishment and to the eventual biological and economic death of the land.

However, a modern civilization can not reshuffle the land without confiscating unmovable property or discouraging economic progress.

Realistic measures of human well being show that our vaunted economic progress is not increasing anything worth increasing, even in strictly economic terms.

If this is the one way in which progress can be made in meeting the economic needs and wants of people, then to shut the door on the billions who have not yet made the transition to abundance does indeed appear to be immoral!

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

«The end of poverty, in this sense, is not only the end of extreme suffering but also the beginning of economic progress and of the hope and security that accompany economic development.»

President Obama has called on China to release Liu, noting that political reform in the country «has not kept pace» with «dramatic progress in economic reform».

While the jury is still out on whether or not Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion has delivered the economic resurgence it promised, there is at least a perception of progress.

While there are still three outstanding Senate races, New York is facing difficult economic times and we must not allow the complications of political uncertainty to stand in the way of progress.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

However, not all parts of upstate New York are seeing the same degree of economic progress.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, was invited to be a UK commissioner by the Centre for American Progress, which convened a UK - US inquiry, co-chaired by US former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, to examine how to secure an economic recovery which benefits all, not just the few.

«However, not all parts of upstate New York are seeing the same degree of economic progress,» he said.

«We do not have to be political scientists before we know that there is a symbiotic relationship between economic progress and political stability.

Ghana's economy has benefited from generous foreign investment but the country's economic progress has not always trickled down to the majority of Ghanaians.

The Assembly does not make any revisions to the economic development competition, but Speaker Carl Heastie says that could change as budget talks progress.

«The progress made in England under the Coalition Government is not being repeated here in Wales due to poor economic management by the Labour Party in Wales over the last decade or so.»

While I don't subscribe to the boosteristic «progress» editions certain papers put out around New Year's, I doubt whether any agency hustling economic development shows that edition to would - be prospects.

«I am determined that we are a party that looks outwards, that talks about the concerns of the British people, the global economic crisis, how we tackle big issues in our society — not the place of Progress in our party.

«If there's some ramifications to the way that something was sourced, I mean, I think there's a remedy that could be had that doesn't hold the progress of the community and the economic development hostage,» he said.

«We shouldn't have to borrow photographs from South Africa to remind people what economic progress looks like,» he said.

While winning economic credibility should remain a Labour priority and I've written in the current Progress magazine on how this might be done, it may be that a perceived dearth of authenticity, rather than economic credibility, is the most immediate cause of a heightened risk that Labour will not form the next government.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

Clinton said the United States would not impose targets on India or «do anything that would limit India's economic progress.»

«Bache actively promoted scientific research, not as an end in itself, but as an intellectual and cultural pursuit closely linked to social, economic and moral improvement... His particular career choice and the zeal with which he pursued that choice embodied values sanctioned by patrician - republican, Protestant culture, specifically the pervasive allegiance to progress that characterised this culture.»

The Rockefellers shared a belief that basic scientific research was the key to social progress and human betterment (not to mention economic prosperity).

The progress in the technology led not only to economic growth has also proved to be but as a medium for the development of new relations for people.

«If we don't make the progress that we need to make in narrowing the achievement gap then that's a recipe for social instability and economic decline,» Ferguson said.

This data reveals that a country's economic growth is not sign of progress towards equality of population since the monetary development continues to accumulate in a few hands and thus keeping the situations of inequality and poverty within the borders of the countries.

«The statement said improving schools is essential - it didn't duck or avoid the imperative of improving - but that we aren't going to make any progress unless we complement school improvement with reforms in the conditions that enable children to be ready to learn in school in the social and economic conditions in which they come.»

One of the key reasons for a possible disconnect is the law's requirement that not only the entire school but also racial, ethnic, economic, and other subgroups within the school make adequate yearly progress.

Let's begin with Paul Peterson's premise («Ticket to Nowhere,» Feature, Spring 2003) that the schools haven't matched America's economic and social progress in the past generation.

The extraordinary U.S. higher - education system is a powerful engine of technological progress and economic growth in the U.S. not accounted for in our analysis.

«When I became Director of Teaching and Learning here, we spent a great deal of time analysing our long - term results for our system and noted that there were a group of schools who, for various reasons — it could be that they are regional schools, had a lot of new staff and transient populations, they could be a school that are in low socio - economic areas or they could be schools with new principals — but consistently over five or six years, the Year 9 - 12 results in literacy were not showing that students were making enough progress with the amount of time they spent in a school,» Doyle shares.

While we still have a long way to go to combat social and economic inequality — and to address the effects of deindustrialization, globalization and automation — it's wrong not to acknowledge the real progress of the last eight years.

It is difficult to advocate for higher salaries for teachers during these hard economic times, but we aren't going to make long term progress economically if we don't have a better educated citizenry.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.