Sentences with phrase «of policy intervention»

Yet renewable natural gas (RNG) production is too expensive to compete with fossil natural gas in the absence of policy intervention.

There have been reports on the likelihood of policy intervention by different levels of government to address -LSB-...]

I don't think it is really feasible to identify which jobs are truly «new» and which ones would have been created anyway, even in the absence of the policy intervention.

«This is a government whose budget program was approved on the 31st of March and as at the 1st of June most of the policy interventions including the tax cuts have not been implemented.

He said the government can not claim to have improved the economy of the country within its 6 months in office because most of its policy interventions aimed at addressing the economic challenges are yet to be implemented.

The Recovery School District has used a number of policy interventions and direct supports to intentionally move students from the lowest performing schools into much better ones.

Not exact matches

That's led to a slew of calls for government intervention and new policies designed to juice startup activity: savings accounts to finance new companies; immigrant entrepreneurial visas; programs to facilitate startups» access to capital; and expanded tax incentives for new businesses.

Policy and politics has failed, and defenders of more government intervention or safety - net expansion can not look to the job market for data to support their case.

Any attempt to assess the potential economic impact of a Syria mission depends on a key assumption about foreign policy: Should President Obama decide for intervention, will the mission look more like Iraq and Afghanistan or Libya?

The program, called PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism Through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education), began after Republican - proposed legislation directed school districts away from zero - tolerance policies that led to expulsions and law enforcement referrals for «petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors.»

Policy makers largely ignore the indirect impact of trade intervention on capital.

Foreign Policy — Discover the actions of our government beyond our borders and the attitudes about foreign policy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention andPolicy — Discover the actions of our government beyond our borders and the attitudes about foreign policy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention andpolicy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention and more.

China has halted intervention in the stock market so far this week as policy makers debate the merits of the government campaign to prop up share prices, according to people familiar with situation.

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

This paper explores the concept of What Works Centres, independent and non-partisan organizations structured to create, collect and curate evidence on public policy challenges and the success — and failure — of government and community - based interventions.

Is the dumping of products into American markets with subsidized state financing with an explicit policy of FX intervention something to be tolerated?

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says Canada will face global pressure to raise interest rates in 2014, as the United States begins to step back from its policy of extraordinary economic stimulus through intervention in bond markets.

It has been over two decades since the popping of Japan's economic bubble and the country is still actively battling with deflationary forces that are so powerful that near - zero interest rates (zero - interest rate policy or ZIRP), repeated bouts of quantitative easing (some call it «money printing») and constant Yen - weakening currency interventions have barely made a dent.

Policy points towards more market intervention to substitute for a lack of overall demand.

There are also some evidence - based policies that could help outside the realm of gun control, including more stringent regulations and taxes on alcohol, changes in policing, and behavioral intervention programs.

While the risk will fall over time also without policy intervention, time is of the essence when it comes to climate change investments, and therefore policy intervention to speed up this process and alter the risk - return ratio for investors is warranted.

They hold $ 2B of Apple stock because their policy of intervention is to try and keep the Swiss Franc from appreciating too much.

It was, arguably, the most successful country exposed to the full force of the crisis, with a managed exchange rate (managed both in the sense of intervention and through well - designed active capital account policies)(see Lee Hsien Loong (2000)-RRB-.

In this new age of fiat money, credit growth drives economic growth, liquidity determines the direction of asset prices and the government controls both through aggressive policy intervention.

Working in the other direction, the investment of the US dollar proceeds of foreign exchange intervention by Asian central banks was supportive of the US Treasury market, as was the very wide spread between 10 - year Treasury yields and the Fed funds rate, particularly in light of the Fed's reaffirmation of its intention to maintain an accommodative monetary policy stance (Table 5, Graph 12).

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

Crown Corporations (today at least) are the residual tail of what was once a fairly active intervention by the Canadian state in various sectors of the economy, allegedly for special policy reasons.

I would expect equity markets to remain under pressure failing a major policy intervention such as the pause or outright reversal of tapering.

In «Government Intervention in Venture Capital in Canada: Toward Greater Transparency and Accountability,» author Richard Rémillard argues that improving the quality of venture capital policy will provide a win - win outcome for the wider public, government and the venture capital industry itself.

Thus, a new and healthy inequality will reappear and will give a new dynamism to the economies of developed countries sick of the slumpflation, sickness coming from the combined inheritance of policies inspired by Keynes and Beveridge, i.e. of the anti-cycle intervention of the State (aiming at cushioning) and of the social redistribution.

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).

By the late 1980s, more than seventy of the world's governments reported that they viewed their national fertility or population growth rates as «unsatisfactory,» and that they considered policy interventions to alter these rates to be «appropriate.»

In the area of foreign policy we are thrust into wars and involved in dozens of interventions, military and otherwise, into the affairs of foreign nations without the consent of either Congress or the public.

One leading member of that revisionist school, the American historian Harry Elmer Barnes (of Smith, Columbia, and the New School for Social Research), went on to oppose American intervention in the thirties and to justify German policies even after the war.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

Since September 11, the talk in the policy community has even been of «preemptive» intervention.

Alarmingly, the American Nursing Association adopted a policy in support of the right to commit VSED without intervention, stating, «A patient's decision regarding VSED is binding, even if the patient subsequently loses capacity.»

And so, a few years ago, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center was condemned for suggesting that public policy should set a point, say age eighty - five, above which no more medical interventions aimed at curing should be attempted.

Early in 2001 an international commission of experts submitted a policy paper to the UN titled «The Responsibility to Protect,» which made the case for international intervention in cases of human rights violations and humanitarian emergencies.

Any analysis of the current state of humanitarian aid and the policies of intervention should take into account both the historical realities presented in books like Balakian's and the grim political realities that Rieff outlines.

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.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

A decade ago humanitarian intervention, defined by Brian Lepard as «the use of military force to protect the victims of human rights violations,» seemed to be a policy whose time had come.

Lepard offers a way for religious and legal understandings of morality to reinforce one another — perhaps a necessity for formulating a coherent policy regarding humanitarian intervention.

Each LEA participating in the drug testing of students must develop policies and procedures to ensure that those students receive the assistance needed, including an assessment to determine the severity of the student's alcohol and drug problem and a recommendation for referral to intervention or treatment resources as appropriate.

It is being increasingly accepted by disciplines associated with infants, children and adults with tongue tie that there is now no place for «wait and see» policies when the frenum has been identified and diagnosed as abnormal, and early intervention is the optimal form of management.

The most effective intervention we have is a focus on parental attachment, through a public policy of home visit programs, starting in the first days of a child's life.

While this simple intervention provides superior support for preterm, low - weight babies, in comparison to conventional practices, such as the use of incubator, it is rarely included in official hospital policies or recommended to mothers by mainstream experts.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

We don't have a specific policy on the National Infant Feeding Survey, but do propose an extensive range of interventions to promote and normalise breast - feeding, so a beneficial means of assessment may be adopted.