Sentences with phrase «of economic constraints»

Today, many married couples continue to do so because of economic constraints (Fadel - Girgis, 1983; Sherif, 1999), or when their extended family can afford to build a house consisting of separate apartments as a way to keep the extended family living together following children's marriages (Fadel - Girgis, 1983).
I would not read this as good news for marriage and families, however, because there may be negative consequences for people who want to part but can not divorce because of economic constraints.
A plan to build another Guggenheim Museum in the city has been scrapped because of economic constraints, the foundation in charge of the museum announced Monday.

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The latest economic impacts of the pipeline constraints come amid an intensifying spat between Alberta and British Columbia over the construction of the Trans Mountain project, pitting arguments of economic impact against the importance of protecting coastlines and limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
In fact I suspect the reason credit growth in the past year or two has not slowed nearly as sharply as it should, or as sharply as required by the economic analysis implicit in the Third Plenum reform proposals, is precisely because of the expected impact of meaningful credit constraint on GDP growth.
Their models of linear development (most famously W.W. Roster's «five stages» of economic development) were gradually replaced by more complex analyses of economies as «systems», in which complex institutional constraints could distort or prevent convergence.
We expect that materially negative yields will be extremely difficult to sustain, not only for political and economic reasons, but also because the cheap alternative of placing physical currency in a safe creates an arbitrage constraint.
Countries can force up economic growth rates (actual the growth rate of economic activity) simply by mobilizing savings and forcing up investment rates, but ultimately their inability to absorb continuously the higher levels of capital mean that they can not push real wealth per capita beyond some fairly hard constraint represented by their institutional inability to absorb investment.
If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.
Because of these constraints, most economic activities create value, and those that do not are reversed in fairly short order.
This mistaken belief that American savings are wholly a function of American household preferences arises because most economists — and, it seems, policymakers — can only imagine American households as autonomous economic units, and are seemingly incapable of imaging them as units within a system in which there are certain inflexible constraints.
Forward - looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to the launch timing and success of products based on the BlackBerry 10 platform, general economic conditions, product pricing levels and competitive intensity, supply constraints, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, including its ability to implement meaningful changes to address its business challenges, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding the cash flow generation of its business.
The increase over the past year has reflected the strength of housing activity and the emergence of capacity constraints in the industry, as discussed above in the chapter on «Domestic Economic Activity».
As the economy reaches constraints, prices begin to rise and the Federal Reserve has to raise interest rates and, as I like to say: Every economic expansion does not die of old age; it dies because the Federal Reserve shoots it in the head,» said Minerd.
«Sustainable» fiscal management allows the government to take actions to support economic growth subject to the constraint of maintaining a low and a stable or declining debt burden.
Although capacity constraints are an issue in some parts of the resources sector, they are expected to ease in time, given the high level of investment intentions in the mining sector (see the chapter on «Domestic Economic Conditions»).
Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»
Many of these respondents can only be politically and civically involved in a tangential way because of time and economic constraints, the survey found.
For the classical theologian, the theology of the immanent Trinity must finally set the constraints for any claims made about the economic Trinity.
Certainly UNESCO must be as critical of political constraints as it is of economic and cultural constraints on news flow, and the MacBride Report makes these dangers abundantly clear.
By enabling new flows of money, information and power on a world scale, the multinationals have succeeded in insulating themselves from both political and social constraints on their economic power, and thus have become an embodiment of the supreme value of economic efficiency over human values.
And when Max Weber, in his famous address Wissenschaft als Beruf, sought to shape the self - understanding of the modern academy, he did so by insisting that the academic realm, like the political and economic realms, had become and would remain governed by means - end rationality and by impersonal constraints.
1 The guru of the World Economic Forum, George Soros, has said the same, arguing that a purely transactional approach to economic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral constEconomic Forum, George Soros, has said the same, arguing that a purely transactional approach to economic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral consteconomic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral constraints.2
I viewed it as our last chance to renew our commitment by choice, not just because of the economic or logistical constraints of marriage.
Rather than addressing the real reasons women don't breastfeed - reasons that range from histories of sexual abuse and body image issues to economic and physical constraints - the campaign «portrays anything short of exclusive breastfeeding... as a sign of moral corruption and bad character....
Depending on the health requirements of a newborn baby, economic constraints, and medical professional advice, some families switch their child to formula.
What if factors such as economic recession and public disapproval had not emerged as major constraints to the involvement of the US and its Western allies in the Afghan war!
There are also policy actions which we have to take - investment climate reforms to improve business and economic competitiveness, focus on developing MSMEs, deepening long term savings through pensions, insurance and sovereign savings, land reform to eliminate constraints in time and cost around land transactions (including a review of the governor's consent requirement), and actions to reduce inflation, interest rates and business operating costs.
However, he warned: «Beyond that we will need to bring forward longer term projects to tackle the capacity constraints that are hindering both economic development and the kind of modal shift that will be needed to help our battle against global warming.»
The grant scheme was established by the coalition in late 2011 «to enable the development of local funds to address infrastructure constraints, and promote economic growth and the delivery of jobs and houses».
By the way, both those comments and my subsequent article of May 10 were not a «single purpose project» designed to attack anyone, but the substance of both interventions was to focus on government's Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), highlight lessons Nigeria could learn from failed or sub-optimal implementation of previous economic blueprints, and discuss constraints and / or impediments which must be removed for the plan to succeed, especially in relation to private capital and foreign direct invEconomic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), highlight lessons Nigeria could learn from failed or sub-optimal implementation of previous economic blueprints, and discuss constraints and / or impediments which must be removed for the plan to succeed, especially in relation to private capital and foreign direct inveconomic blueprints, and discuss constraints and / or impediments which must be removed for the plan to succeed, especially in relation to private capital and foreign direct investment.
One suggested that they were hamstrung by having to defend the economic record of Gordon Brown's final years in office: by being unable to concede that there might have been some intrinsic problems with spending and constraint.
«With the headcount constraints in today's economic climate, industry needs to hire leaders as well as technically excellent scientists,» says Scott Reines, newly retired vice president of pharmaceutical research and development at Johnson & Johnson, a pharmaceutical company based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
As the deployment of these technologies will likely be limited due to any combination of the environmental, economic or energy constraints examined in the study, «Plan A» must be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions aggressively now.
«In some families it's going to be harder to do these things [because of] social and economic constraints, but we should consider what would make it possible for them to have these routines in their household.»
There's also a through - line to 2015's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain — narratively we are shown Big Boss going openly rogue and actively opposing the world order, and while the game's mechanical focus is on freedom, this falls within the constraints of a larger economic system where the narrative freedom to do what you want, is a smokescreen for another system of exploitation.
The reality behind food insecurity — people's inability to access food regularly whether through economic constraints or lack of availability — is staggering.
Thomas J. Kane, «College Cost, Borrowing Constraints and the Timing of College Entry,» Eastern Economic Journal (1996) Vol.
The issue of global sustainability and effect that the current system of integrating the workforce of volunteers into the regulated societal constraints, is one of economic balance in a conscious attempt towards a Global Altruistic awareness.
, we can say that the tension of the contradiction is an influence with constraint value for those who are experiencing it and this tension must be suffered, otherwise it will discharge itself into economic collapse, war and reductionism.
If that is the case then the mind definitely holds the potential to learn more, however, it is us who stop ourselves from expanding the horizons of our knowledge with self - doubt or other social, emotional, or economic constraints.
Schools within schools, personalized learning communities, online courses, and advisory groups are a few examples of ways that schools can weave the social web of the student tighter within the economic constraints of the system.
In addition to racial diversity, ABC also has increased its assistance for students of varying economic backgrounds, helping not only students who have significant financial constraints, but also middle - class students.
«Although media tablet sales were not as high as expected in the first quarter of 2011 due to slower consumer demand, overall economic conditions and supply - chain constraints, we believe with the entrance of competitive new devices in the second half of 2011, the market will sell close to 53 million units for the year and continue to grow long - term,» said IDC research analyst Jennifer Song.
One persuasive theory proposed by economist Richard Easterlin is that the postwar period witnessed a combination of two basic forces which encouraged optimism and relaxed earlier constraints on marriage and having children: an unprecedented demand for goods and services otherwise known as the postwar economic boom; and an accompanying shortage of labor.
«Although media tablet sales were not as high as expected in the first quarter of 2011, due to slower consumer demand, overall economic conditions and supply - chain constraints, we believe with the entrance of competitive new devices in the second half of 2011, the market will sell close to 53 million units for the year and continue to grow long - term,» said Jennifer Song.
We see today's backdrop of heightened Gulf tensions, supply constraints and steady global economic growth persisting.
Even if it were legally possible to pay unrealized surplus (it is not), and even if the Board were convinced a higher dividend would not compromise the creditworthiness of the RBI, there is a more fundamental economic reason why a special dividend would not help the Government with its budgetary constraints.
The space draws also on the voices of those groups, regardless of age, sex, profession, and socio - economic constraints, who are at once represented and marginalized within normal institutional channels.
The loosening of social and economic constraints in Japan allowed the emergence of a number of remarkable artists who produced increasingly avant - garde works.
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