Sentences with phrase «of national economic growth»

«The commercial construction industry remains strong, reflecting the needs and continued growth of the overall economy, and this sustained period of national economic growth does not appear to be weakening,» says Raday.

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In the U.K., economic growth slowed to a one - year low of 0.3 percent from 0.7 percent in the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

He said other issues included national security, crime and «the huge issue of economic growth and development, the big question is the unemployment among the younger generations.»

The National Bureau of Economic Research, which officially makes the call on whether the US economy is in recession, has its own criteria, but technicalities aside, few people will argue with a characterization of the US economy as being «in recession» if we see two straight quarters of negative growth.

Bringing other provinces on board with pipeline expansion, plus a variety of other controversial issues such as temporary foreign workers, requires a national perspective on economic growth.

John Komlos, professor emeritus of economic history at the University of Munich, says that the stagnation of growth in the USA compared to Northern European populations could be due to different national healthcare systems: for example, the Dutch have access to socialized medicine that Americans do not.

Britain's productivity crisis has been a driving force behind the dismal economic growth that has characterised its economy since 2009, and policy wonks are increasingly concerned, with Chancellor Philip Hammond last week announcing billions of pounds of extra investment more pounds to his «National Productivity Investment Fund.»

Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stephanie O'Sullivan, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Cathy Novelli and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Toria Nuland have told colleagues they are stepping down, the sources said.

Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting point of China's nascent economic recovery.

«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.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics «experimental» annual estimates of States» real Gross State Product (GSP) show that WA's economic growth for the year was 4.6 per cent, a little above the national average (4.3 per cent).

Although the National Bureau of Economic Research officially called an end to the Great Recession in mid-2009, the years that followed were characterized by slow and uneven growth, with some analysts using the term «jobless recovery» to describe economic conEconomic Research officially called an end to the Great Recession in mid-2009, the years that followed were characterized by slow and uneven growth, with some analysts using the term «jobless recovery» to describe economic coneconomic conditions.

On the corporate side of the code, tax expert Bill Gale and his colleagues summarize that «there is virtually no evidence that broad - based [corporate] tax cuts have had a positive effect on [economic] growth... That has been amply demonstrated at the national level, where tax cuts have eroded revenue without discernable effect on economic activity.»

This helped solidify the country's role as the world's top engine of economic growth once again, contributing an estimated 33.2 percent to global economic expansion, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.

Le Maire goes on to describe French leadership for the development and support of technology as essential for jobs and economic growth, but also as a source of national pride.

Preliminary national accounts estimates for 2012 will be released at the end of February and will likely show lower - than - expected economic growth for 2012.

There, Representative Michael Burgess (R)» [e] xpress [ed] the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should adopt a national policy for technology to promote consumers» access to financial tools and online commerce to promote economic growth and consumer empowerment.»

this week the Minister of Finance held his seventh National Policy Retreat with business, academic and other «experts» to discuss job creation and economic growth, particularly «issues» related to «skill shortages, labor mobility, internal trade and promoting investment in Canada.»

The Minister of Finance met with his private sector economic advisory group on March 5th to get their views on the National Accounts outcome for the fourth quarter of 2011 and what this meant for the final outcome for 2011 and for growth in 2012.

Further, the Trump Administration and many members of Congress have talked about using economic growth to address our rising national debt.

In the most current declarations in regard to the UK economic growth disturbance reported by the Confederation of British Industry it is expressive as the trend is at par with other major national economies of the European...

China signals slightly lower growth ahead At its annual meeting of the National People's Congress, China announced it had trimmed its official economic growth target to 6.5 % for 2017 from a range of 6.5 % — 7 % in 2016.

Rachel Wolbers is the policy director at Engine, a nonprofit that supports the growth of technology entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis and advocacy on local and national issues.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

If it turned out that in the twenty years after 1965 continuing growth of GNP had not been accompanied by improved economic welfare, then surely it was time for a national discussion of how welfare could be improved.

These were able to withstand the pressures of the world establishment and its neo-liberal policies and ensure a stable economic policy and growth of their productive capacity based on their national self - interest, even if the workers too were suppressed during this process.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

In addition to inhibiting the growth of national church structures, the generalized economic deprivation of blacks in America has contributed to the continued fragmentation of the Afro - American religious community.

They accepted the economists» argument that rapid economic growth, national and global, is required to address the problem of poverty and that, with the attainment of prosperity, other problems could be solved as well.

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

(Economic Growth, National Bureau of Economic Research General Series, No. 96E.

He went on to say that only 3 % of the expected economic growth of this country through 1980 would be required to meet the United Nations» goal of 7 % of GNP (gross national product) devoted to assistance hinds.

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

Hanoi — Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) this week put its full weight behind a national strategy designed to make rice production an even larger engine of inclusive economic growth.

Before joining IFPRI, he also served as NABARD Chair Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, and Chief Economist at the National Council of Applied Economics Research in India.

(Bethlehem, PA) This morning, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) kicked off its national tour, «Grocery Manufacturers Power America: How the Nation's Largest Manufacturing Sector Drives Communities, Jobs, and Economic Growth,» at Bethlehem's Freshpet Kitchens — one of the fastest growing providers of manufacturing jobs in the Lehigh Valley.

But shackling small firms, the drivers of economic growth, with extra expense is not the answer,» said national chairman Carol Undy.

The resort to thinly - veiled attacks on past regimes and the effort made to run down their contributions towards economic growth and national development as a whole has long since fallen out of favour with the Ghanaian public.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

(a) It is in the national interest to promote clean and safe development of our Nation's vast energy resources, while at the same time avoiding regulatory burdens that unnecessarily encumber energy production, constrain economic growth, and prevent job creation.

If economic growth has indeed arrived, the recovery of national accounts has not materialised, making it more painful.

• We promised to restore Teacher training allowances and we have delivered • We promised to end dumsor and we have delivered • We promised to reduced fertilizer prices by 50 % and we have delivered • We promised to establish a Ministry of Zongo and Inner City Affairs and we have delivered • We promised to increase and pay peacekeeping allowances increased from $ 31 to $ 35 and we have delivered • We promised to increase the share of the DACF to persons with disabilities from 2 % to 3 % and we have delivered • We promised a stimulus package to support local industry and we have delivered • We promised to implement a National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan and we have delivered • We promised a more efficient port system and we have delivered • We promised to reduce the rapid rate of borrowing and accumulation of the public debt and we have delivered • We promised to restore economic growth and we have delivered • We promised to reduce inflation and we have delivered.

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research predicted today that UK GDP would shrink by 0.5 % in 2012 and only achieve growth of 1.3 % next year.

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

Therefore, Mr. Speaker, we will, through consultations inside and outside government, translate the President's «Coordinated Programme of Economic and Social Development Policies» (CPESDP) into a detailed medium - term national development policy framework for 2018 - 2021, for fast and sustained growth, building on the achievements of this year and the measures already contained in this budget.

Local reports have claimed that Ghana loses US$ 4.5 billion every year (annually) from nominal gross domestic product (Nominal GDP) growth as a result of economic corruption and economic crime by the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of Ghana led by John Dramani Mahama.

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»

Improving our understanding of such questions will be essential, if New York is to gain its desired share of national and global economic growth.

President Mahama, who is seeking re-election in the December 7 elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress said the foundation his government has laid has put the country on a sound path to economic growth.