Sentences with phrase «of public sector funding»

Barriers to access to the benefits of science, particularly in the health sector, result from a shift in the balance of public sector funding for research and private sector funding for development, Wyndham noted.
Like the rest of local government, counties have felt the effect of public sector funding reductions.

Not exact matches

The private sector has matched public funds dollar for dollar in 2017 to support the Historic Heart of Perth project, which aims to revitalise the east end precinct through public art and streetscape improvements.
There are some significant competitive advantages that should begin to accrue to the U.S. economy in the years to come - energy, manufacturing competitiveness and demographics - though the savings required to fund investment could be redirected to the public sector if policymakers do not slow the growth of mandatory spending.»
However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.
The fund will work with the public sector portion of Koch Industries, run by billionaire and Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, to help navigate public policy and regulatory law.
Funding startups is a huge challenge, and the solution requires the involvement of both the public and private sectors.
In short, because they pool longevity risk, can offer a well - diversified portfolio with longer - term investments, and are professionally managed, public pension funds deliver the same level of benefits as DC plans at only 46 percent of the cost.15 Any funds invested with the state pension fund would be kept in a separate investment pool from public sector funds.
National Australia Bank's MLC - home to the country's largest retail superannuation fund and $ 199 billion in assets under management - officially joined the bulging list of financial services sector initial public offering candidates on Thursday morning, when NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn flagged intentions to divest the business.
The fund under normal circumstances invests in at least 65 % of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of fixed income instruments of varying maturities, including bonds issued by both U.S. and non-U.S. public - or private - sector entities.
Public - sector solutions to resolve the Europe's debt crisis from institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the ECB are «merely bodies exchanging cards in a game of old maid,» Gross added.
There has even been talk of the public broadcaster, (CBC) which receives over $ 1 billion in public funding annually, dropping advertising and ceasing to compete for ad dollars with its private sector rivals.
To be able to sustain the transformation activities in full and address the needs of clients, who are often poor or marginalized from society, the entrepreneur must mobilize other sources of funding from the public and / or philanthropic sectors.
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund today sounded the alarm on excessive global borrowing, warning that with a total of $ 164 trillion owed, the world's public and private sectors are deeper in debt than at the height of the financial crisis a decade ago.
«You can appreciate, then, that as our summer upgrade projects wind down, it continues to be an extreme source of frustration to watch over $ 4 million in funds that the public invested in public education make their way to the private sector
I believe the real issue is funding of any school that is not in the public or separate school sector.
Over the year to the March quarter, growth in total assets of managed funds has been strongest in the cash management and public unit trust sectors (Table 5).
Those funds, in turn, were invested in a diverse array of US public sector bonds.
The statistics office also said that the public sector, which includes the federal government, regional states, municipalities and social funds, posted a record budget surplus of 38.4 billion euros, or 1.2 percent of GDP, in 2017.
«This issue of public sector pay has demonstrated that there is little sign of a coherent plan about how to fund the health service, education, social care, defence, housing, or transport infrastructure.»
The president of Coca - Cola South Pacific, Roberto Mercade, said: «The vast majority of the funding in Australia goes to... support charities, the public sector and not - for - profit organisations.
We eradicate stigma by increasing the availability and accessibility of mental health care worldwide by: treating patients, training professionals, including psychologists, therapists, OBGYNs, pediatricians, nurses, and midwives, providing public programs, including new parent groups, breastfeeding clinics, and adolescent services, funding research, providing curated content online, and advocating in public and private sectors.
First, the transfer of the Royal Mail pension fund to the public sector as part of its privatisation.
«Everyone in policing understands the difficult financial position the country faces, and we accept that all parts of the public sector must shoulder the burden of the cuts in funding.
At the same time, while there tends to be little ostensible evidence in the UK of the blatant buying off of politicians and officials, the murky networks that connect political parties with private funders, and see the frequent movement of officials across the private and public sector, raise serious questions about the integrity of the public service ethos at the highest levels of power (as even Conservative commentators recognise — e.g. Ferdinand Mount, The New Few).
The British Medical Association, which represents doctors and medical students, welcomed a variety of Labour proposals, including the extra funding as well as scrapping the public sector pay cap and reviewing Sustainability and Transformation Plans, which are local schemes that often involve closing services to save money.
Elsewhere in the housing strategy, the theme of building new homes continues with a # 500 million Growing Places Fund, the release of public sector land for building, a # 400 million Get Britain Building investment fund, a simplified planning system and support for self buildFund, the release of public sector land for building, a # 400 million Get Britain Building investment fund, a simplified planning system and support for self buildfund, a simplified planning system and support for self builders.
Furthermore, as Prof Jim Gallagher argued, certain public sector institutions would lose significant funding currently provided by the rest of the UK.
I agree with Darling insofar as he is as saying that the Tories and the Lib Dems are undertaking an ideological war on the public sector (did anyone listen to Edwina Currie's orgasmic squeal at the thought of denying funding to a hospital on any questions?).
At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the third installment of their Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series, with panels focusing on the waste sector, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., second floor, Manhattan.
The creative sector - from not - for - profit art trusts to high - end commercial outfits - depends on an interconnected web of public funding, private donations, market dynamics, legislation and a free flow of people and information.
It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.
The party said it believed that the streamlining of all public sector workers salaries through the IPPIS would greatly reduce public funds wastage, especially cases of ghost workers be-devilling the public sector.
It was stepped up significantly under Tony Blair's Labour government when it was used to fund the construction and operation of public sector infrastructure.
On the improved effect of the treasury single account, he said it has blocked financial leakages of the public sector making more funds available for the business of governance and ensuring the welfare of Nigerian citizens.
«We wish to state that if by July 14, directives have not been issued for the transfer of funds to various public sector schemes, we will advise ourselves,» said Mr Awotwi Nkansah, Deputy Executive Secretary of GNAT in charge of Labour.
The economy is now frighteningly dependent on public sector jobs - non-productive ones, funded by the rest of us - to sustain employment.»
North of $ 2 billion in public funds have been invested, but the nano sector boasts some 50 companies and more than 15,000 jobs in the Capital region and across the state.
In all, the Democratic governor boasted that there will be $ 100 billion worth of investments in New York, counting some expenditures from last year, spending by public authorities and matching funds from the private sector.
Section 5 of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act indicates that the Petroleum Holding Fund earmarked for transfer into the Ghana Petroleum Funds shall not be used to provide credit to the government, public enterprises, private sector entities or any other person or entity.
Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.
This release is based on the findings from «Values, practices and outcomes in public and private sector corrections,» funded by the ESRC and carried out by Professor Alison Liebling, Dr Ben Crewe, Dr Susie Hulley and Ms Clare McLean of Cambridge University.
Most of the funding for the Working Families Party comes from public sector and hospital unions.
As public sector prisons move towards the thin staffing level model of profit - making institutions, with their high turnover of personnel who are less connected to their occupation, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) warns of a potentially detrimental impact on prison quality.
The public spending cuts will wound a sector bolstered by injections of funding under Labour from the mid-90s when money was redirected away from universities to early years learning and further education.
The minister, disclosed this while speaking with CNBC, said the Federal Government was in search of Public - Private Partnership, PPP, funding in the Nigerian transportation sector.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has undertaken a statewide building boom using public construction contracts to spur private - sector job growth that since 2011 has committed billions of dollars in construction funds and tax breaks to companies.
Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.
Given that the entire public sector is facing sharp restraint in spending, the appetite among MPs for increasing state funding of political parties will not be high.
The UK's largest public sector union has warned that funding cuts would turn back the clock to the public sector recruitment and retention crisis of the 1990s.
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