Sentences with phrase «of policy attention»

These schools and programs should be receiving the lion's share of policy attention, but unfortunately neither has a charismatic leader such as Wendy Kopp.

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Many — possibly most — students of monetary policy believe central bankers should avoid undue attention.

A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

His economic policies, known as «Abenomics,» have attracted much attention, mostly because of the impact they've had on Japan's yen, which has depreciated about 21 percent since mid-November - just before Abe came to power.

The recently - appointed chairman captured investor attention again Thursday as he began speaking to the Senate Banking committee, where he discussed monetary policy and the state of the U.S. economy.

And while that issue is newly top - of - mind for many voters, some bedrock economic policy issues also deserve attention from the candidates during their last in - person exchange of the year:

That's a pretty decent number of companies whose policies support women, and hopefully that number will grow as attention to the index fund, and women's issues in business and elsewhere, increases.

Also, Sedhom recommends that you pay particular attention to inclement weather policies as they relate to any type of union employees.

Despite that reversal, UPS maintains that its denial of Young's light duty request was lawful at the time and that its policy change is voluntary and not required by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.The Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief supporting UPS, calling attention to companies that offer pregnant employees «more than what federal law compels them to provide.»

«Their driver monitor system isn't as good as some other systems in terms of assuring that someone is paying attention,» said David Friedman, Director of Cars and Product Policy and Analysis for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.

We look forward to helping the Attorney General and his staff bring attention to this important issue,» said Facebook's director of state public policy.

The key to the successful use of universal life coverage is paying attention to your policy and adjusting as needed.

Immigration policy is once again at the forefront of national attention.

Delegates told me they worried the party is too autocratic, and when I asked a senior party official what he made of Saturday's policy debates, he said, «I haven't really been paying attention.»

The debate prior to this crisis can be (perhaps simplistically) characterised as between those who argued that an inflation - targeting central bank should care about asset prices to the extent that they affected the forecasts of output and inflation over the policy horizon, and those who argued that additional attention needed to be paid to asset prices and the possibility of credit imbalances.

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

This rapid increase in exports to developing countries in recent years has gained the attention of Israeli policy - makers.

For example, Facebook FB, -1.16 % revealed its sexual harassment policy in December, while Microsoft MSFT, +0.60 % reviewed and updated its policies because of the attention on the topic.

Attentions this week turn to a busy macroeconomic calendar headlined by the Bank of England's policy announcement Thursday while the more immediate focus turns to Manufacturing PMI for direction through trade on Monday.

Attentions this week turn to a raft of Central bank policy meetings with the Australian Reserve Bank, Canadian Central Bank, Bank of England and European Central Bank all due to release policy updates while Friday's Non-Farm Payroll report will be crucial in providing direction and governing expectations leading into the Fed's March 17 - 18 assembly.

Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.

I have talked mainly about monetary policy in the context of inflation, with growth in activity and employment attracting less attention.

As the traditional summer lull in market activity draws to a close, investor attention turns to key monetary policy meetings across the globe, kicking off with the European Central Bank meeting on September 7, which some commentators believe could see the announcement of a change in monetary policy approach.

If you even pay casual attention to political news in Canada, you will undoubtedly hear clips from spokespeople representing the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the Fraser Institute, the National Citizens Coalition, the MacDonald - Laurier Institute, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business or the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

Speculation about policy change has largely monopolized the attention of investors in the months since the US elections, but monetary policy came sharply back into focus during February.

We think central - bank policy will continue to demand market attention in the second half of the year.

They also pay close attention to the tug - of - war between the deflationary forces at roost in the US and UK and the policy makers» desire to reflate.

To properly garner the human capital benefits of such a policy, attention should be paid to both supply and accessibility.

Powell has in the past expressed a view that Fed communication «should do more to emphasize the uncertainty that surrounds all economic forecasts, should downplay short - term tactical questions such as the timing of the next rate increase, and should focus the public's attention instead on the considerations that go into making policy across the range of plausible paths for the economy.»

After the unexpectedly rapid turnaround in monetary policy by the Bank of Canada — with July's increase in Canadian interest rates coming almost a year earlier than had been widely predicted only a few weeks earlier — the attention of market participants turned to Australia, where interest rates remained at record lows.

Healthcare is all but stymied, turning attention to tax reform, but increasingly heated controversy surrounding the president has put a fly in the ointment of policy progress.

While the program may create some useful incentives for technology adoption, it was Paradis» reference to a digital economy strategy that attracted the attention of policy watchers.

Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.

The other major problem with Webb's argument is that he simply does not give attention to the details of foreign policy development that are so important to Dorrien and Nelson - Pallmeyer.

Between about 1870 and 1970 many countries of the western world did focus their attention on economic policies that promoted social cohesion at the national level.

This will certainly require attention to the spiritual life of those engaged in seeking the transformation of public policies.

And transgenderism, let alone questions of bathroom access for transgender students in public schools, was so far off the policy radar it was inconceivable that it would receive presidential attention.

The character of this suffering moves theological attention to the social systems that shape our lives — economic, political, cultural — as well as to public events themselves (the Holocaust, programs and policies of economic austerity, military intervention, terrorism, ethnic nationalist expression, struggles for survival and freedom).

In the mandarin world of foreign policy experts, a good many «realists» viewed, and still view, this initiative as an unwelcome intrusion that distracts attention from the cold calculations of power that should guide our thinking about world affairs.

People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies pay close attention.

Daly accepted because the Bank, unlike academic economists, had to pay some attention to the consequences of their policies.

I think in a lot of ways people who are doing protests, they get the media attention, they drive the political will, but then it also takes people who are going to come up with policy ideas.

There's an informative and interesting discussion over at the Front Porch Republic between Drs. Wilson and Scott on matters of economics and foreign policy that is worthy of our attention....

At the same time, however, I have called attention to the difficulty of trying to work out an «ecological» approach to social policy when we, like the chaos scientists, know so little about how to predict and influence long - term developments.

FRC gained attention in the last days of the campaign for its advertising against Joseph Cao — a Republican congressman from Louisiana who supported hate - crimes legislation and an effort to repeal the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy on openly homosexual service members.

The Obama administration's drone policy has drawn a great deal of attention in the last few months.

Man's task always involved attention to immediate responsibilities and loyalties, and the use of appropriate and reasonable policies.

«[It also] took the development of policies and procedures that focus on the company's attention to food quality and food safety,» he says.

It is the Company's policy not just to offer its customers a product, but also to offer tailor made solutions and effectively respond to their different requirements, attention to the training and motivation of its personnel, which it regards as its most valuable asset.

That makes sense, but what causes more negative attention: nonstop reports of players being suspended for violating the league's substance abuse policy, or quietly removing marijuana from the testing slate?