Sentences with phrase «of economic scale»

Thus far, most firms — even those performing at the lower end of the economic scale — have been able to maintain some semblance of stability by bolstering their PPEP through an intentional thinning of heir ranks of equity partners, aggressive expense management, and annual rate increases (albeit smaller increases than prior to 2008).

You are right that it is not simply a question of handling complaints quickly and efficiently, but of making sure that access to justice is only for the the tops and bottoms of the economic scale.

The growth in China is primarily among those who are at the higher end of the economic scale, and a large part of the reason for that is, precisely, because of the authoritarian nature of the government.

As improvements for animals come & go, animals are added to and taken off endangered species lists, horse slaughter comes & goes... Those who profit from puppy mills are often at the lower end of the economic scale... They do not have powerful lobbies, as do traditional breeders...

Workers at the lowest end of the economic scale pay a lesser percentage of their income in taxes than those who earn more.

But people in and around the video game industry tend to raise issues of economic scale as a deterrent to entry.

The income of those at the top of the economic scale continues to rise, while the income of many of those in the middle or bottom has remained stagnant or even declined.

Not exact matches

Yet both are expensive and sometimes out of reach for countries on the lower end of the economic development scale.

Rather, it pointed to three main factors: taxes and tariffs, differing rules and regulations, and economic factors, such as shipping costs and economies of scale.

«Consequently, it will spur economic growth in Canada by attracting talent and investment, supporting scale - up firms and enabling established firms to be best - in - class adopters of artificial intelligence.»

As a whole, the movements have been modest in scale, continuing the pattern seen around most Chinese economic data points of late.

After a two - year slide due to an economic implosion that saw Wall Street, big banks and other key recruiters of MBAs scale back their hiring, the MBA made a comeback in 2010.

So when he was named last year by Finance Minister Bill Morneau to chair the federal government's blue - chip Advisory Council on Economic Growth, nobody who knew him was surprised that Barton set goals of scaled - up ambition.

Given the scale of the self - employed workforce, America's economic outlook will be impacted.

And, what we're trying to gently push back in the book is the economics of the large - scale bundled subscription model that Netflix is pursuing, [where what the] economic theory says is you can profitably make things in a bundle that wouldn't be profitable if you sold them separately.

Similarly, earlier in the week, a Deutsche Bank research team argued that in light of upcoming European elections and ongoing large - scale economic and political challenges like the migrant crisis, Europe is unlikely to see deeper coordination:

Retail sales rose less than expected in June, the latest sign of a slowdown in economic growth that offers a cautionary note to the Federal Reserve as it mulls scaling back its monetary stimulus.

What's more certain is that the decline of steady employment opportunities has robbed men lower on the economic scale of the stability to marry.

But to turn this explosion of entrepreneurial energy into a long - lasting economic driver for Canada, we've got to scale more of these startups into large businesses.

My sense is that micro-entrepreneurs will far exceed that sort of scale and economic contribution in just the next five to ten years.

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

China and India, the two biggest emerging markets, are experiencing economic acceleration 10 times that of Europe's industrial revolution — on 100 times the scale.

And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

Superficially, it's obvious why: There are the global - scale economic and political effects a manipulated outcome could have, and the psychological appeal of attacking a democratic process that the US holds on a pedestal.

This includes deploying large - scale, sophisticated, and malicious supply chain attacks that assist bad actors with economic espionage and can threaten the physical security of a nation in the long run.

They include upwards revisions in economic forecasts, expectation of monetary tightening, rising real and nominal long - term interest rates, fiscal stimulus on a huge scale in a full employment economy, rising protectionism that should choke off import flows, and tax reform directed at reducing capital outflows and increasing capital inflows.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

What today we call economic globalization — a combination of rapid technological progress, large - scale capital flows, and burgeoning international trade — has happened many times before in the last 200 years.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

You get some sense of the scale of the emissions trail that has accompanied this shift in economic geography when you consider that the emissions coming from China's export sector alone are greater than the total emissions from any other economy other than the US's.

But this was mostly from the decline in real economic activity in the United States and Europe and the scaling back of global operations, including trade credit, by banks based in the major economies.

If oil drops into the $ 20 - to - $ 30 range, he may soon be dealing with the consequences of an oil sands industry, his government's anointed engine of economic growth, suddenly becoming a commercial disaster on a scale that could be unrivaled in Canada's history.

As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

They have started implementing an entirely new economic system for bitcoin against the will of it's users and have blocked any and all attempts to scaling the network in line with the original vision.

With billions of dollars of construction spend spread across a few years, along with the promise of strong jobs creation in the tune of thousands of jobs being created, the state hosting a Gigafactory - scale facility is primed for an economic boom.

These include forward guidance on the future path of its policy rate, stimulating the economy through large - scale asset purchases (commonly referred to as quantitative easing), funding to ensure that credit is available to key economic sectors, and moving its policy rate below zero to encourage spending.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

Ms. Xiao, who P&G categorizes as a «Level 1» customer because of her economic status (in general, the company uses a 1 to 3 scale to divide its customers in every country), carries a Burberry purse and wears a Hermes belt.

Tej Parikh, Senior Economist at the Institute of Directors, said: «After nearly a year of economic pessimism winning out among business leaders, the scales have tipped gently into the positive.

China's Stocks Decline From Two - Week High as Stimulus Speculation Eases China's stocks fell, dragging the Shanghai Composite Index from a two - week high, as the government damped speculation of a large - scale stimulus program to revive economic growth.

After trading in line with US yields for much of 2004, movements in European and Japanese government bond yields have decoupled from those in the US in recent months, largely reflecting the scaling back in the outlook for economic growth in both economies.

Not only were valuations getting pretty close to fair value on the Rule of 20 scale (19.2 in 04» 10, 18.7 in 04 ’11 and 17.3 in 03» 12, the latter admittedly more reasonable), but economic momentum stalled, leading to a soft patch and rising investor concerns, aggravated by political chaos in Europe and the U.S.

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By scaling and incorporating bitcoin into the world's computing devices, a large space of economic opportunities that is inaccessible to fiat currencies becomes possible.

The continued use of large - scale asset purchases to enhance global liquidity in a period of increased economic growth is preventing the markets from stabilizing.

The speculation is that as some of RIM's large corporate clients start scaling back BlackBerry purchases and upgrades as the economic downturn takes hold, hurting directly the co's performance and its revenues — RIM shares will further deteriorate, consequently loosing more value.

Indeed, as expectations for economic growth have been scaled back somewhat in both regions over the past three months, markets have pushed back their expectation of the timing of the first tightening by both central banks.

The bottom line is that after the prolonged tax giveaway exacerbates the federal budget deficit — along with the balance - of - payments deficit — we can expect the next Republican or Democratic administration to step in and «save» the country from economic emergency by scaling back Social Security while turning its funding over, Pinochet - style, to Wall Street money managers to loot as they did in Chile.

Rather, it is a byproduct of the world's central banks, having intervened on vast scale to deal with the economic travails of the last several years, introducing uncertainty and even a little chaos as they start to contemplate how and when the era of easy money might end.