Sentences with phrase «of economic growth in the country»

Upper East Regional Minister Rockson Bukari said the last time a census of agriculture conducted in Ghana was in 1985, adding that, government's quest for another census formed part of Akufo Addo's vision of making Agric the backbone of economic growth in the country.

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The work of Harvard economist Robert Barro, for example, reveals inequality is actually beneficial for economic growth in developed countries.

Steve Case's new $ 150 million venture fund dedicated to the flyover states is great, tangible proof of the tech world's interest in bringing the rest of the country along for the economic growth that comes from the innovation economy.

Their newest paper uses historical data from multiple countries to show that an increase in the ratio of household debt to gross domestic product over a three - to - four - year period predicts a decline in economic growth.

Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»

«The overall economic plan consists of massive tax cuts and tax reform, regulatory relief, and renegotiating trade deals, and with that, we will unlock the economic growth that has been held back for too long in this country.»

Hershey (HSY) cut its full - year revenue forecast again earlier this summer, and also announced a round of layoffs, as sales continue to shrink in the increasingly health - conscious U.S. and the company's efforts to boost sales in China have faltered amid that country's sluggish economic growth.

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from last year's decade - high rate of 2.4 percent.

In contrast to the new U.S. administration, Canada's Liberal government has remained positive on free trade, with prime minister Justin Trudeau and various members of his cabinet touting the economic growth it creates and suggesting the country could benefit from its continued openness to global commerce.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

But that dynamic is likely on account of growth - minded economic policy in those countries rather than a specifically detrimental economic policy in the U.S.. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have not made this argument.

Exports are responsible for about half of the country's economic growth in recent years.

Mauro F. Guillà © n of the Wharton School and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and Sandra L. Suà ¡ rez of Temple University's Department of Political Science explore the economic and structural factors that affect the growth of the Internet in different countries in their paper «Developing the Internet: Entrepreneurship and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective.»

While strict mortgage - lending laws were in place before he took office and they came at a cost — less home ownership and slower economic growth — the state's conservative rules, as WSJ notes, «largely prevented the state's residents from signing the types of dubious home loans written in other markets across the country.»

According to the OECD, U.K. GDP per capita — a measure of economic growth that divides GDP per the number of people in a country — has doubled since the country joined the EU in 1973.

The U.S. Department of Energy projects that global energy consumption will increase by 53 % between 2008 and 2035, with most of that growth coming from the long - term economic expansion in Asian countries.

Listing «problems» standing in the way of U.S. economic growth, Dimon cited American immigration policies that often prevent foreign college students from getting a job in this country after they graduate.

Of these, fully half involve creating a new governmental or quasi-governmental agency (such as the Canada Infrastructure Bank), while the remaining are so ambiguous as to be potentially meaningless (for example, creating a foreign direct investment strategy «in line with the country's economic growth strategy»).

«These announcements reaffirm our commitment to the economic growth, prosperity and national security of both Saudi Arabia and the United States, helping to create or sustain thousands of jobs in our two countries,» said Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg.

... It is exactly the opposite of what we need to kick - boost economic growth in this country.

Official figures show that economic growth across the 19 - country eurozone slowed down in the first three months of the year

We've not had a quarter in this country of over 3 % economic growth since 2008, since the crisis.

With the global economy «floating on an ocean of credit,» the current acceleration of credit via central bank policies will likely produce a positive rate of real economic growth this year for most developed countries, PIMCO chief Bill Gross writes in his latest monthly commentary, but «the structural distortions brought about by zero bound interest rates will limit that growth and induce serious risks in future years.»

In aggregate, the GDP measures the economic growth and health of the country.

Although economic growth in the United States continues to be as strong as in many other countries, or stronger, a small percentage of American households is fully benefiting from it.

I have explained elsewhere some of the reasons that determine whether a country's debt is «excessively high», and I hope formally to list these reasons more fully in my next book, but the key is the gap that is created between projected debt - servicing costs and the projected revenues earmarked to service the debt when an economic entity suffers an unexpected surge in debt or an unexpected decline in growth.

Like all the countries that have followed similar growth models, China has required accelerating credit expansion to maintain current levels of growth in the country's economic activity.

Lastly, Harper simply has no answer at all when it comes to promoting new long term economic growth in Canada and his laissez - faire ideology means that we are falling further and further behind those countries that are actually using the power and organizing capacity of the state to create sustained, modernizing economic growth.

The United States Federal Reserve System works similarly to central banks in many other countries, with a goal of managing economic growth, inflation, and other economic factors through monetary policy.

«Despite moderate global economic growth, recent data shows better - than - expected oil demand in some of the main consuming countries.

Europe's debt crisis has triggered fiscal tightening that economists fear will slow the region's economic growth, in turn slowing imports from Asia and other countries and subsequently the pace of global growth.

Economic growth in the country will be close to zero in 2015 - 16, according to the CBR, and inflation could hit 10 percent in the first three months of 2015, heightening the pressure on Russian consumers.

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To support locally - driven efforts in coal country to spur job growth, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced that the Department's Economic Development...

Since the end of quantitative easing in the U.S. in October 2014, lackluster global economic growth and a marked divergence among central bank policies has led to a difference in the real and forecast interest rates in one country versus another.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today that Malaysia has recorded a 6.2 per cent growth in GDP in the third quarter of this year, an achievement that proves that the country's economic management is on track.

«We are proud to honor 20 Top Corporations for their world - class leadership in partnering with women's business enterprises to sustain innovation in this country and fuel our economic growth,» said Linda Denny, president and CEO of WBENC, the leading authority on and advocate for women's business enterprises (WBEs) as vendors and suppliers to the nation's leading corporations.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Growth has been extraordinarily sluggish in the recovery from the Great Recession and has weakened in advanced countries over a longer period, leading some analysts to believe that we have entered a new economic era of small to modest gGrowth has been extraordinarily sluggish in the recovery from the Great Recession and has weakened in advanced countries over a longer period, leading some analysts to believe that we have entered a new economic era of small to modest growthgrowth.

Indonesia is the largest country in the 10 - member Asean bloc, with more than 260 million people and economic growth of 5 per cent last year.

Mr. Laurier's record of governance includes liberalizing immigration policy to populate the country particularly in the new western provinces, supporting the construction of transportation infrastructure to bolster economic development and export growth, steadily reducing tariff rates to provide Canada with a tax advantage relative to the United States, and pursuing free trade and market access for Canadian goods and services.

Indeed, investors might position themselves to capitalise on the immense technological and structural changes taking place in China as the country ushers in what Chinese President Xi Jinping calls a «New Era» of transformation and growth, and further cements its place as a dominant global economic superpower.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

China is ushering in what President Xi Jinping calls a «new era» of transformation of growth, cementing the country's place as a global economic superpower.

International stimulus packages with regards to the world economic growth is to limit the impact of a dwindling market in Western economies on poorer countries.

Unemployment across the 19 - country eurozone has fallen to its lowest level in a little more than nine years on the back of strong economic growth, official figures showed Thursday.

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

China announced today that it will grant visa - free access to individual citizens from 59 countries to the tropical island of Hainan, in the country's south, in an effort to boost its economic growth and tourism industry.