Sentences with phrase «of economic progress»

The move risks chilling business development in what had been a promising site of economic progress in a changing region.

To correct this, many economists have begun searching for more comprehensive measures of economic progress that reflect the overall state of a country.

Women are healthier and better educated than they used to be, but somehow that hasn't translated into the expected surge of economic progress.

All in all, the results of the survey yield a pessimistic picture of economic progress since the end of the recession.

Those who complained about what this did to the environment were always outsiders who seemed to be putting obstacles in the way of economic progress.

People preferred to move forward on a wave of economic progress and to avoid examining the country's recent past.

And that has meant a commitment to coal, the cheap fuel that has powered much of the economic progress of the past two centuries.

There have been signs of economic progress in Japan, which would typically mean better prospects for the banking sector.

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

The CIC is thus the enemy of economic progress by attempting to decrease use of fossil fuels, the critical input to improved living standards in recent centuries.

Decades of infrastructure neglect are eroding centuries of economic progress.

In time, the effects of economic progress in these countries and others in the region could be expected to have a substantial effect on the Australian economy, just as the development of China has.

Two - thirds of the economic progress made by underdeveloped nations since 1950 has been wiped out by the population explosion.

It is a simple chart of economic progress, but the implications within the data is that we are making headway against our perpetual foes: pestilence, war, famine and death.

But since their message of economic progress and joy dovetails with his campaign rhetoric, Republicans have gone on offense.

Throughout their campaign challenges to Mayor Byron Brown, City Comptroller Mark Schroeder and Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant hammered away at the lack of economic progress in many Buffalo neighborhoods.

But they would complement them, as reducers of inequities of knowledge, class, wealth and income, and also as general enablers of economic progress over the long term.

And while, eleven years later, new immigrants to Canada continue to be a fundamental part of our economic progress and success as a country, especially concerning major cities like Toronto or Vancouver where they're interwoven into the very fabric of society, it's also become quite difficult for newcomers to the country to establish a life for themselves here.

American statesmen who had once favored such banks, and who thought paper money inflation could be a source of economic progress, converted to hard money on the spot, and proposals for 100 - percent specie banking proliferated.

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two - part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b. 1959), who uses allegorical methods to explore the cyclical nature of change in modernizing societies, the urban landscape, and patterns of economic progress.

In my query, I mentioned how Herman Daly and others have long proposed that a transition is possible from the perpetual - growth model of economic progress to more of a «steady - state economy.»

That's the history of economic progress and the difference between us and Mexico or Bangladesh.

Long after the novelty of seeing them wore off, they say that they still love the sense of economic progress and stability represented by those blades as they go trucking by, not to mention their promise of energy independence.

Among recent signs of economic progress is a 2.2 % increase in personal consumption, a very strong 7.3 % jump in private investment, and an increase in government spending that was revised up to 0.7 %.

Accordingly, I have been interested in developing measures of economic progress and regress that subtract economic costs from benefits.

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

«It's interesting that the Governor would be willing to raise money for the same cabal of Democrat Senators who in 2009 raised taxes... and are now itching to do away with the property tax cap, go on a massive taxpayer - financed spending spree and roll back all of the economic progress we've made over the last six years,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for Senate Republicans.

Victor shows that if we introduce new policies into the model, like new measures of economic progress; a carbon price; more generous social policies; limits on material, energy, waste and land use; a shorter working week; etc., then you can actually reduce poverty and unemployment in a zero - growth scenario.

Just as focusing too much on growth or the Dow or GDP as the sole indicators of economic progress, when happiness levels or a quality of life do a better job of assessing the health of an economy, to see tall buildings as better signs of economic progress than reducing poverty or increasing public education is a symptom of a broken value system in western society.