Sentences with phrase «numbers for economic growth»

The headline (or bottom - line) numbers for economic growth and fiscal balance have not changed significantly.

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It was also the fastest rate of growth since the third quarter of 2014, and pundits are already declaring the headline number as good news for Hillary Clinton, who is running a campaign that promises a continuation of President Barack Obama» economic policies.

Even fans of unbridled capitalism have begun to question whether the post-2008 plague of stubbornly low economic growth may have something to do with the way GDP accounts, or fails to account, for a growing number of Internet firms like Facebook and Google who offer their services largely for free.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

This could have been done to offset some of the negative commentaries concerning the fiscal outcome for 2015 - 16, such as the downward revisions to economic growth by the IMF, the Bank of Canada and a number of private sector economists.

ADP's number was also below earlier analyst estimates of at least 200,000 new jobs added each month for the remainder of 2012, and barely above the 150,000 new jobs needed simply to keep pace with economic growth and new job market entrants.

The result of the vote is important for a number of reasons, but none more than the fact that global economic growth has been fragile since the «Great Recession» of 2008.

With dynamic economic growth, burgeoning middle classes and new and expanding business opportunities increasingly defining Canada - Asia relations, businesses and educators across Canada are looking for ways to significantly increase the small number...

You would think that the number one priority for the government and all political parties for the coming election would be how to strengthen economic growth and job creation.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

When it happens it will likely be for a number of different reasons including a combination of higher economic growth, higher inflation, lower risk aversion or a pullback in bond purchases by the Fed.

Under Ms. Tolstedt's leadership in 2010, the Community Bank achieved a number of significant strategic objectives, including converting approximately 750 Wachovia banking stores to the Wells Fargo platform, record cross-sell results in legacy Wells Fargo stores and increased cross-sell results in Wachovia stores, rising customer service and satisfaction results, growing market share in key businesses, and positioning the Community Bank for future growth when economic conditions stabilize.

For a time we started to look at numbers like electric - power production and freight traffic to get a line on actual economic growth because no one believed the gross - domestic - product figures.

The private sector economists are surveyed for only a selective number of aggregate economic and financial indicators: real gross domestic product (GDP) growth; GDP inflation, nominal GDP;, the 3 - month treasury bill rate;, the 10 - year government bond rate;, the unemployment rate; the, consumer price index; the exchange rate (US cents / Cdn $); and finally, and U.S. real GDP growth.

The International Monetary Fund cut its global economic growth forecast for 2016 on Tuesday as it expects a number of factors to weigh on world economies.

US economy grew faster than expected in first quarter For a number of years, first quarter readings of economic growth in the US have fallen short of expectations.

The IMF cut its global economic growth forecast for 2016 as it expects a number of factors to weigh on world economies.

The report, which described its findings as «highly encouraging for near - term economic growth,» confirmed that over 200,000 small businesses were founded in 2013 by entrepreneurial Americans who have completely and utterly lost their grip on reality, and noted that the number of bold and frankly insane Americans applying for new business permits had risen markedly over the past year.

When economic growth factors activity is at the most basic, a total number of economic expediency creates a momentum for more activity.

We need to speed up economic growth in order that we can provide decent jobs for the large number of young people graduating from our universities every year.»

Mr. Speaker, in our maiden Budget Statement and Economic Policy, we outlined a number of short to medium term policy initiatives, to set the stage for our agenda for inclusive growth and job creation.

Nevertheless, last year we built only half of the number of homes we need, and the downward revision in economic growth only reinforces the need for these measures to boost construction and the economy.»

The U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs yesterday released revised numbers for the coming century, raising median estimates for population growth in 2050 and 2100.

Of course you have to look at these in great detail, but what that means for 2050, when I worked out the numbers, assuming our world population of 8 or 9 billion in the year 2050, is that if this world economic growth rate continues to 2050 the way it has been in the past 30 years, you get an average person in the world in 2050 being like today's average European or Japanese.

In turn, the ministry, taking a holistic view of the dismal scenario in Pakistan, has launched a vast number of projects that fall under other ministries but that involve the effective use of science and technology for economic growth.

Student achievement, particularly in math and science, is crucial to our country's capacity for innovation and future economic growth, yet a growing number of today's students lack foundational knowledge and skills in these subjects.

It's not quite at tulip - bulb levels yet, but prices have been rising rapidly for a number of years (in excess of general economic growth) and the market was scarcely affected the US sub-prime bust.

An overwhelming number of advisors (70 %) are bullish about economic growth across global markets, particularly for stock sectors like industrials, financials and materials, TD Ameritrade says.

For this, we used gross domestic product numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, considering growth from 2008 to 2011.

For this, we used gross domestic product numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, considering growth from 2008 to 2011.

A number of my recent articles have focused on the aggressive expectations for earnings growth over the next couple of years in relation to expectations for economic growth.

«The economic development of the African market, supported by the significant number of foreign visitors, large scale urbanisation and the growing disposable income of the one billion people in the domestic market, clearly provides significant opportunities for growth.»

For those of us in the youth and student tourism industry, we see how vital young people are to the tourism sector, and how vital tourism is to young people,» said WYSE Travel Confederation Director General Espen Falkenhaug, «Tourism is one of the world's most promising drivers of economic growth, and considering the numbers, youth tourism is even more so.

Final numbers aren't in for 2017, but it appears that there was an uptick in emissions due to faster than anticipated economic growth:

Economists now largely agree that economic growth makes it possible to move large numbers of people out of poverty, if governments are willing to use that growth to pay for it.

Some of these insights are evident in the SPM that Stefan cites — for example, see the paragraph on p. 14 — but conveniently Stefan only quotes the idealized 0.06 % number when he says that the «vast majority of scientific literature» says that 2 degrees is achievable with just a «minor delay in economic growth».

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

Incredibly, the administration looked at American progress on a number of fronts — energy production, economic growth, lower consumer costs and environmental benefits — and concluded it was time for a tax hike on that progress.

The analytical report aims to provide a number of key findings to be considered by world leaders as they are setting out to chart new pathways to sustainable development.It explores the drivers of change and transmission channels for the shift to a green economy, and considers their implications for economic activity, employment growth and social outcomes, notably as regards to the key economic sectors.

TransitCenter, a New York - based foundation dedicated to transit reform, identifies growth in the number of people who ride transit often and for multiple purposes as an important indicator of whether transit is serving its function of helping a city meet its «triple bottom line» of economic growth, environmental stability, and social equity,» Binns reports.

So for that reason, I am trying very hard to promote a set of policies that a group of us believe very strongly would achieve the 70 percent cuts required by nature, even as they would create huge numbers of jobs and economic growth — especially in developing countries.

And China, while busily building new coalfired power stations at the rate of one a week (it has already overtaken the US as the world number one CO2 emitter), has become the new imperial power in sub-Saharan Africa, using its substantial political and economic muscle to secure control of the raw materials needed for its future growth, in particular African oil and gas reserves.

China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its annual «Statistical Communiqué» on 28 February, with preliminary statistics for 2016 on everything from economic growth and industrial production to the number of forest fires and medical personnel.

For one thing, as I've said before, the economic models from which IPCC and others draw these numbers are just this side of wild guesses, based on assumptions about economic growth, resource prices, and technological development decades in the future.

The number of auto casualties in wealthy nations have waned slightly, especially last year when driving decreased due to high gas prices and economic hardships, but not enough to compensate for the exponential growth in auto dependence and auto deaths in poorer nations.

And yet, despite a long history of scientific warnings (please see Footnote 30 for a detailed description30), the many current ecological and economic impacts and crises, the future risks and dangers, the large number of international meetings and conferences on the urgent need for climate policies and measures, and the adoption of some national and regional climate policies, growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement has not only remained strong but is actually accelerating.

To have a chance of solving things, the whole system needs to change, starting with the economic fallacies on which policies are based (for instance, the arbitrary number that represents GNP growth is the ultimate goal of society and must therefore eternally grow bigger and bigger and bigger, faster).

The deVere CEO concludes: «Robust regulation that is devised, implemented and enforced by international financial regulators will mean further protection for the growing number of people using cryptocurrencies, the less likely it will be that criminals will use these digital payment methods, the less potential risk there will be for the disruption of global financial stability, and the more potential opportunities there will be for higher economic growth and activity in those countries which introduce it.»

Central bank issued digital fiat currency using distributed ledger and blockchain technology is a way for governments to protect foreign currency reserves, reduce costs, improve the ease of doing business and a number of other benefits that can help stimulate economic growth.»