Sentences with phrase «of policy barriers»

At a current oil price of about $ 46 per barrel, there's little chance that there will be a big push toward development, but as soon as prices range upward of $ 80 per barrel, that could change — plus, some of the policy barriers may be coming down, Zukunft said, referring to the Trump administration's moves to enable offshore Arctic drilling.

A number of policy barriers within each of the three North American nations need to be addressed, and national and NAFTA trading rules need to be reconciled in order for renewable energy to achieve its full potential.

Removal of policy barriers that inhibit PL could also contribute to more - complete implementation.

«It's become evident that women who request federally funded sterilization are subject to a set of policy barriers that impede their reproductive autonomy,» explained Sonya Borrero, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of medicine, Pitt School of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

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«In contrast, I disagree with the notion that the large quantity of reserves resulting from our asset purchases poses some special barrier to removing policy stimulus when the right time comes.

Trust Ventures, is designed to «find, fund, and assist companies whose groundbreaking products, services, and innovations would otherwise be locked out of the marketplace by burdensome public policy barriers,» according to a release announcing the launch.

A lack of overarching federal policy support is another barrier: Until recently, pipelines trumped power lines as a national priority.

This highlights the need for worldwide policy reform to remove many of the barriers that obstruct responsible mining.

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.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

What makes this article interesting is that these Ministers of Finance admit that the barriers to implementing policy reforms are not economic but lack of «political leadership and courage».

Members of a common market work to eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers among themselves and to follow a uniform trade policy with nonmember countries.

In Part II of our series, we'll go into who the big institutional investors are, their policies and barriers, and our suggestions for how they can push this financial and innovation opportunity over the tipping point.

«The lack of a renewable policy framework has been a real barrier.»

A growing Catholic sense of security and a desire to erase some of the barriers that separated Catholics from other Americans spurred the NCWC to issue policy statements and position papers directed to the nation as a whole.

This challenge is significant when viewed through the context of future land, water, energy and nutrient availability; water quality concerns; policy barriers; and a general decline in the research investment that drives productivity.

Lobby for changes in law, policy and practice to dismantle barriers to UK fathers» care of infants and children

To broaden the understanding on the persistent barriers that despite various global policy and advocacy initiatives over the past 30 years, continue to impede improvement in exclusive breastfeeding rates and violate the human rights of those affected;...

Due to the cost, Step 2 of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (Train all health care staff in the skills necessary to implement this [breastfeeding] policy) is often cited as one of the barriers to Baby ‐ Friendly designation.

The Texas Mother - Friendly Worksite Program seeks to reduce barriers to breastfeeding by increasing the number of employers who have worksite lactation support policies and programs to proactively support employees in combining working and breastfeeding by providing for:

Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), «Breaking the Barriers to Breastfeeding: Research, Policy and Practice» July 8 - 12, 2005, Chicago IL.

Breastfeeding does not occur in a vacuum - it is impacted by cultural views, structural barriers, supportive and non-supportive policies and the impact of commercial interests.

It's all about economic egalitarianism, lowering barriers to entry, etc. «and the pressures of accommodating to Conservative priorities in economic and social policy.»

According to the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and to experts, disability is the combination of: 1) the individual's impairment; 2) the barriers in the environment (lack of physical and communications accessibility, negative attitudes, absence of laws and specific policies); and 3) the individual's social role (sex, financial situation, access to political participation, etc).

These incentives and policy instruments could be financial, but they could also be lighter - touch regulatory and market mechanisms that help SMEs (unlike mechanisms such as auctions that are barriers to small players who do not have corporate back - up and who need to know the value of their product in advance if they are to raise funds).

And this obsession leads us to notice that the policies that allow for a vast concentration of wealth at the top often also create barriers that prevent people overcoming poverty at the bottom.

The Free SHS policy which began in September 2017, seeks to provide Senior High School education to every qualified Ghanaian child who completes the Basic level, at no cost to parents in order to remove the barrier of finance which has undoubtedly deprived Ghana of many potential leaders.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatia.

For example, the Israeli West Bank Barrier is called Geder Ha «hafrada, it means separation fence; and separation as a word is synonymous with segregation and this usefully points to another historical situation that casts some light here: the racist segregation policies of the USA concerning their black minority, particularly in the Deep South before they began to be dismantled during the era of the Civil Rights struggle under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luthor King.

Let me quote directly from my first article, «In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

The legislation agreed to would expand the number of veterans that were not previously covered in the current law and remove barriers that prevented women who served in the military from additional pension credits due to now - discarded policy that barred women from being deployed in combat.

It is figures like these that have informed the urgency with which the government has pursued its Free SHS policy to address inequality and ensure equal opportunities for all students through the removal of cost barriers.

«Politicians have an important and legitimate interest in how health care is provided locally but too often act as a barrier, rather than facilitating the honest dialogue needed with the public,» deputy director of policy Candace Imison said.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

The free Senior High School policy eliminates one of the major barriers to seeking secondary education; poverty.

The state will work with the Regional Councils to align state resources and policies, eliminate unnecessary barriers to growth and prosperity, and streamline the delivery of government services and programs to help the Regional Councils carry out their plans for development.

The additional requirements would hurt low - income parents who face barriers to work, such as a lack of affordable child care and scanty transportation options, said Ken Taylor, executive director at Kids Forward, a group that analyzes policies affecting children and families in Wisconsin.

Recognition of the barriers faced by scientists from underrepresented groups can inform programs designed to recruit and retain those scientists; understanding the prevalence and impact of deceitful research can lead to more effective policies to prevent them.

Yet few policy makers are taking stock of the significant barriers to entry that coastal climate refugees, like other refugees, will encounter when they migrate to higher ground.»

Levine said she saw Clark as a mentor and someone who thought a lot about science policy leadership, including «the challenges, barriers and opportunities for women in science and her deep appreciation of the social and behavioral sciences.»

Published early online in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings may help policy makers address barriers to access to care and improve the use of recommended cancer screening services.

«Hepatitis C: Life - threatening barriers in access to breakthrough drugs in US: First systematic study of Medicaid policies for hepatitis C treatment.»

This is one of the first papers examining the integration of behavioral and medical care at community health centers, and this paper is the first to address policy barriers including same - day billing restrictions.

The simple policy changes instituted in South Carolina with recommendations from collaborative stakeholders effectively removed barriers to early provision of such services to children with ASD.

A new examination of remoteness as a barrier to health care, published online in the Journal of Global Health, notes that most surveys and policy documents categorize families as living either in an urban or rural setting, and this dichotomy can mask disparities of the most remote families.

«It's really about [scientists and policy - makers] recognizing the existence of the other group of people, recognizing those populations are there, and that you can talk to them — that the language barriers aren't insurmountable,» she says.

These barriers must be overcome to support policies and markets that depend on timely knowledge of where carbon is stored on land.

He's been in this game for a while, trying to figure out how to break down some of the barriers,» said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

A revised Medicaid sterilization policy that removes logistical barriers, including a mandatory 30 - day waiting period, could potentially honor women's reproductive decisions, reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and save $ 215 million in public health costs each year, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.