Sentences with phrase «of real economic activity»

While its users may populate only a virtual country, Facebook says it generates a lot of real economic activity - $ 227 billion worth of economic impact and 4.5 million jobs in 2014, according to a new study by consulting firm Deloitte & Touche that Facebook commissioned.

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The efforts of central banks to stimulate activity through monetary measures has succeeded in keeping interest rates very low, but have not resulted in any significant uptick in real economic activity.

For instance, the New York Federal Reserve has an inflation measure, the Underlying Inflation Gauge (UIG), that aims to capture sustained movements in underlying inflation from a broad set of price, real economic activity, and financial data.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

But this was mostly from the decline in real economic activity in the United States and Europe and the scaling back of global operations, including trade credit, by banks based in the major economies.

Countries can force up economic growth rates (actual the growth rate of economic activity) simply by mobilizing savings and forcing up investment rates, but ultimately their inability to absorb continuously the higher levels of capital mean that they can not push real wealth per capita beyond some fairly hard constraint represented by their institutional inability to absorb investment.

Currently, the Department of Finance only using the major aggregates of economic activity — real and nominal gross domestic product (GDP), short and long - term interest rates, etc..

It applies to the economic or professional activities of a wide range of persons, including credit and financial institutions, organizers of games of chance, intermediaries in transactions with real property, traders in transactions involving more than $ 15,000 or its equivalent, pawnbrokers, precious metals and stones traders, auditors, providers of trust and company services, and non-profit associations and foundations.

The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) measured by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is a key metric of the pace of economic aEconomic Analysis (BEA) is a key metric of the pace of economic aeconomic activity.

2016.06.10 Canadian economic activity erratic through 2016: RBC Economics As the Canadian economy contends with softer than expected exports, weak business investment and effects of the Alberta wildfires, real GDP growth in 2016 is forecast to be 1.4 per cent...

Based on other measures of economic activity there have almost certainly been 12 - month periods over the past 10 years when China's economy shrank in real terms, but during these periods China's government still reported growth of around 7 %.

Early advocates of these type of tax cuts argued that lower tax rates would increase economic activity and thereby revenues. However, thereâ $ ™ s little evidence changes in tax rates, except in more extreme cases, have a major impact on real economic activity.

Those increases in real GDP translate to increases of roughly $ 200 billion to $ 3.4 trillion of additional economic activity through 2023.

First, they do not identify economic activity solely with real GDP and real GDI, but use a range of other indicators.

The threat to real economic activity was so dire that the stance of monetary policy had to be changed aggressively.

$ 4 trillion in direct money printing plus several multiples of that amount of money injected into the system in the form of credit failed to stimulate real economic activity.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Fehr's contributions are real enough, but for Christians, and anyone who worries about the ontological, moral and epistemological dimensions of economic activity, his gaps are probably more concerning than his accomplishments.

No real development or genuine economic activity can take place in the midst of crisis or tension.

Government is hopeful that this year economic activities will rebound with a projected real GDP growth of 5.4 percent — despite the International Monetary Fund, which is helping in management of the economy under a three - year Extended Credit Facility programme, lowering Ghana's economic growth in 2016 to 4.5 percent as a result of the continued fall in prices of commodities on the world market.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

The sheer depth and extent of GCHQ's activities with all the forward operators was and still is absolutely crucial in both tactical real time intelligence, the gathering of political and economic intelligence and in support of field operations, whether against Indonesian insurgents in Borneo or the IRA.

They bring «increased economic activity» — a transfer of money from one party to another — but no real economic development.

«IDAs provide real value in creating jobs, stimulating economic activity and improving the quality of life for local communities,» Silva said.

Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (AS Level) a) Aggregate Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

Many tribes argue that the real issue is economic competition, while state officials maintain that it is a question of the states» right to control activities within their...

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

I'm in the weird spot of thinking that nominal economic activity is higher than expected, on both an inflation and real GDP basis.

For example, an investment like a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is often driven by many factors that include interest rate levels but also include the strength of economic activity.

For example, while a slowdown in economic activity might have negative affects on current real estate prices, a dramatic steepening of the yield curve (indicating an expectation of future inflation) might be interpreted to mean future prices will increase.

Going into 2017, the Conference Board of Canada believes Vancouver will once again have the strongest economic growth among Canadian cities, with activity led by construction, finance, insurance, transportation, warehousing and real estate.

Almost 15 % of all our economic activity is related directly to real estate, the only large sector which continues to expand.

Now one could just print their way out of the situation, and hand fresh currency to creditors — but at a cost of high interest rates and inflation, which could crush economic activity in real terms.

The wonder happened in tandem with opening up to Western industries and ways of getting things done, including economic activity, real - estate development, and lifestyle.

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to be unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to become unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

It must never be forgotten that political and economic activity is only effective when it is understood as a prudential activity, guided by a perennial concept of justice and constantly conscious of the fact that, above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty, deprived of all rights.

So, in the case of a massive disaster, the cost of rebuilding afterwards increases GDP — meaning that if an economic indicator that took into account a broader spectrum of economic activity (such as the Genuine Progress Indicator), the real damages to Pakistan are likely larger than that 5 % GDP loss indicates.

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After years of the British government suffering criticism from international organisations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Transparency International for its lack of enforcement activity in the area of overseas bribery, it appears that a real and tangible momentum is gathering pace behind the new Bribery Bill.

The goal of GCA is to share and disseminate — in real time — crucial information related to malicious cyber activity across international borders and economic sectors, in order to prevent future crimes from occurring.

In this presentation, Dr. David Ling reviews the mechanics of like - kind exchanges and discuss the economic impact of like - kind exchange transactions on tax revenues, real estate sales activity and prices, investment activity and job creation, and debt financing.

As frozen debt markets and economic worries stifle commercial real estate investment activity, developers are beginning to decode the secrets of the maturing $ 90 billion biotech industry, where research space can...

New research released by the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) says the city's Municipal Land Transfer Tax is causing «a massive loss of economic activity in the City of Toronto and a corresponding loss of thousands of jobs.»

So our governments have created a flurry of economic activity around real estate speculation.

NAR provides the state - by - state reports on international transactions below to give an overview of the real estate markets on a state - by - state basis as well as information on economic activity.

With a slowdown in global economic activity, financial market volatility and a contentious presidential campaign, commercial real estate investors have taken a step back in the early months of 2016.

Location, location, location has been the mantra for buying real estate since time began, but the key importance of «location» used to be where there was economic activity.

NEW ORLEANS (November 7, 2014)-- While economic activity was mixed during the first half of the year, industry experts expressed confidence that the commercial real estate market is on the rise during the Commercial Economic Issues & Trends Forum at the 2014 REALTORS ® Conferenceeconomic activity was mixed during the first half of the year, industry experts expressed confidence that the commercial real estate market is on the rise during the Commercial Economic Issues & Trends Forum at the 2014 REALTORS ® ConferenceEconomic Issues & Trends Forum at the 2014 REALTORS ® Conference & Expo.

Real disposable income has been flat and that needs to change for a higher pace of economic activity to occur.»

Despite the slowdown in Chinese economic growth and tighter regulations on outflows of foreign exchange, Chinese foreign buyers remained as the top foreign buyer of U.S. residential property, according to NAR's 2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate.