Sentences with phrase «of economic barriers»

The Mental Health Association in Indian River County is a nonprofit which provides access to mental health care, regardless of any economic barriers.

Not exact matches

Recalling 2017 trips to the Women's Farmer Union in North Dakota and the She Summit in NYC, «what you see with women across the political and economic spectrum is a growing sense of frustration, facing barriers that they were previously told had been struck down.»

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

Trump's embrace of trade barriers this year has sparked fears of tit - for - tat retaliation that could undermine consumer confidence and stymie the strongest global economic expansion in years.

But, while this certainly is a valid point, the democratization of Broadway — bringing down the barriers of access whether it's geographic, economic or physical limitations — has provided the gateway for a new audience.

Additionally, any imposition of trade barriers or labeling China a currency manipulator may lead to a trade war or, at the least, be a drag on economic growth, as noted by Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.

The Remain campaign would have us believe the EU would impose tariff barriers in retribution, but the truth is we import nearly # 70bn more from the continent than we sell there, so it would be an absurd act of economic self - harm for the EU to start a trade war with Britain.

These recommendations were in fact cited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andEconomic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andEconomic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate andeconomic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate and invest.

Today, the WEB Alliance of Women's Business Networks announced the release of a new report, Women as a Catalyst for Growth: A BC Action Plan, which identifies key barriers and solutions to increasing the economic impact of women in British Columbia.

Canada's experience with the 1965 Auto Pact, the 1988 Free Trade Agreement with the United States and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are good examples of the economic impact of lowering trade barriers.4 The North American market opened in the wake of the agreements (Chart 2).

Perhaps the most significant barrier to attracting foreign capital, not to mention the region's broader economic development, is the inadequacy of transportation infrastructure in the Russian Far East.

Amid global fears of an escalating trade dispute between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump suggested that Beijing will ease trade barriers «because it is the right thing to do» and that the economic superpowers can settle the conflict that has rattled financial markets, consumers and businesses.

This year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.

«Now, with Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.»

These barriers to capital flows and trade will hinder both economies but also hurt China's effort to move up the value chain, improve the quality of its economic growth and maintain a steady increase in household incomes.

Phil Levy, who was a senior official on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, told me that his rule of thumb for characterizing something as a trade war is that the escalation of trade barriers is «uncontrolled.»

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

What makes this article interesting is that these Ministers of Finance admit that the barriers to implementing policy reforms are not economic but lack of «political leadership and courage».

Becoming an entrepreneur or freelancer is a strategy for retirees who either don't want to return to a 9 to 5 job or who have run into ageism or other hiring barriers, according to the study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

For those firms, the latest economic data reflects the impact of their company's success but also paints a picture of what opportunities and barriers to growth exist.

(e) Not later than 60 days from the date of this order, agencies shall report to the President, through the Director of the National Economic Council, recommendations on agency - specific actions that eliminate barriers to competition, promote greater competition, and improve consumer access to information needed to make informed purchasing decisions.

The next decade will see small business involvement in cross border trade expand substantially due to lower hard and soft barriers, strong economic growth outside of the U.S. and the growing impact of the global Internet and related communications technologies.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) estimates that in the north of the West Bank approximately 80 per cent of Palestinians who own land on the other side of the barrier have not received permits from the Israeli authorities, and hence can not cultivate their fields.

Agape bids us seek justice here, not the stale justice of combat and compromise, but the justice of a search for a new economic, political, and ecclesiastical order in which sexuality can be fulfilling for each in a life which is a support and not a barrier to the love which binds all together.

Therefore, it is essential that there be no sexual, racial, economic or religious barriers limiting people, because in the new creation we no longer regard each other from «a human point of view.»

Though two - thirds of the agency professionals felt that non-Christian worldviews were barriers to socio - economic development, only one - third thought that R&D agencies should work actively to change popular beliefs and values.

It is the result of massive migration in the post-World War II period, which in turn has had a variety of causes: economic and political pressures in the countries from which the migrants came, labor shortages and an easing of immigration barriers in the countries to which they moved, and in the latter countries probably also an easing of the prejudices that had in the past resulted in high barriers (though arguably this new tolerance could turn out to be a temporary phenomenon).

Under the influence of economic forces and the intellectual reasons invoked to break down the barriers behind which our egotism shelters, there must emerge, since this alone can be completely unanimizing, the sense of a single, fundamental aspiration.

They listed the «occupation» of Palestinian lands, Israel's separation barrier with the West Bank, its military checkpoints, political prisoners, demolition of homes and disturbance of Palestinians» socio - economic lives as factors that have made life increasingly difficult for Palestinians.

«12 At the same time, the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington was putting economic and political pressure on the governments of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea to withdraw their trade barriers and allow U.S. cigarette sales and advertising into their nations.

The geography of relationship is not bounded by political barrier or economic class.

While the power of the IMP (and the World Bank) to impose economic liberalization programmes is limited to only those impecunious states which seek financial relief from it, all the WTO members are committed, by virtue of their membership of the organization, to its goal of a world free of tariff barriers.

He questioned the view that we need not be concerned with heavy concentration, instead preferring «standard economic wisdom» that «mergers resulting in high levels of concentration in markets with substantial barriers to entry will usually reduce competition and cause harm to consumers and our economy.»

Most unwed moms report the barrier to be the economic stability and emotional maturity of their mates.

But to truly facilitate breastfeeding, we need to break down these barriers so that all families and all babies can benefit from the health benefits of breastfeeding and the economic benefits of breastfeeding.

Senate Resolution 170 recognizes the unique health, economic, and societal benefits that breastfeeding provides to babies, mothers, families and the community and resolves the state of Illinois to work to ensure that barriers to initiation and continuation of breastfeeding are removed and that a women's right to breastfeed is upheld.

Washington - Greene County Community Action / WIC Program, «Breastfeeding - Economic Challenges of the»90s;» Presented «Confessions of a Sneaky Lactation Consultant: Teaching Breastfeeding in a Way that Bypasses Barriers.»

It's all about economic egalitarianism, lowering barriers to entry, etc. «and the pressures of accommodating to Conservative priorities in economic and social policy.»

Or a recent study from the Centre for Economic Performance that examined the negative impacts of trade barriers.

John P. McCormick: I think that a lack of the kind of class consciousness that was characteristic of the ancient Roman and medieval Florentine republics — in particular, the lack of a thorough - going distrust and resentment of the political influence of economic elites within modern republics — is the single greatest barrier to a revival of Machiavellian democratic republicanism today.

Marguerite Holmes Suozzi, matriarch of a Long Island political family, mother of Rep. Thomas Suozzi and creator of an annual summer concert series designed to cross economic barriers, has died.

It is a sound revenue stream for funding future upgrades that improve straphangers» daily commutes, while expanding access to public transportation for hundreds of thousands of our low - income neighbors who face barriers to economic opportunity because they can not afford to ride a bus or train.

The Business Council represents a wide range of enterprises across the state, all of whom are burdened by regulations and we look forward to working with the Governor and the Legislature in establishing in a joint commission to identify ways to eliminate regulatory barriers that make it difficult to do business in New York State and hinder economic growth.

Ensure our civil rights by eradicating all barriers to equal participation in the economic and social mainstream of America.

RIP Marguerite Holmes Suozzi, matriarch of a Long Island political family, mother of Rep. Tom Suozzi and creator of an annual summer concert series designed to cross economic barriers, who died at the age of 93.

Dr. Myron Glick, M.D. — Dr. Glick is the Chief Medical Officer of Jericho Road Community Health Center, which provides a culturally sensitive medical home, especially for refugee and low - income community members, facilitating wellness and self - sufficiency by addressing health, education, economic and spiritual barriers.

These include: personal budgets for employment support services that would enable disabled people to have much more control over the type of support they receive, breaking down the barriers disabled people face when gaining employment, and staying in work which is vital to the country's sustainable economic growth.

Let me quote directly from my first article, «In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

This is another example of how when government and the private sector work together, as we have done with New York's dairy industry to eliminate barriers to growth, the result is positive economic activity that translates into jobs and new opportunities for New Yorkers,» Governor Cuomo said.

«This initiative will help bring Rochester into a new era of economic development by breaking down barriers to growth, leveraging its assets, and solidifying the region's role as a leader in tomorrow's high - tech industries.