Sentences with phrase «off economic growth rates»

In addition, strong CO2 abatement programs are likely to knock a percent or two off economic growth rates and, if ethanol is still a preferred tactic, will likely substantially raise food prices as well.

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On the assumption that rates on corporate bonds price off Treasuries, there was no measureable effect on investment and economic growth.

If it raises rates too quickly, the bank risks choking off economic growth, falling short of its ideal inflation target of two per cent and could lead to the type of financial stability risk it's trying to avoid, he said.

Meanwhile, analysts at Russell Investments Canada Ltd. expect the Bank of Canada to raise rates just once in 2018 as economic growth tapers off.

The robust growth in the Philippines is widely attributed to President Benigno Aquino III's economic reforms, favourable fiscal management and strict anti-corruption campaign which earned the country several rating upgrades by major credit rating agencies to investment grade last year and kicked off a remarkable inflow of foreign direct investment.

Indonesia started to throw off the shackles of socialism in the mid-1960s when President Suharto assumed power, and the result has been one of the fastest sustained economic growth rates in the world.

«I think that, you know, paying a higher tax rate for higher incomes, having a million dollars be the cut - off is actually a better approach in my view, because you're retaining lower tax rates for small businesses and small businesses are such an important economic engine for growth in this country,» the state's junior senator said.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

But since that December increase of a quarter of a percentage point, the Fed has held off pushing the fed funds rate any higher because of concerns about lackluster economic growth.

Among other reasons, the BoC can't increase interest rates without putting the nation's anemic economic growth at risk and potentially scaring off foreign investment.

How can a new secular bull market begin today unless you believe that suddenly the economies of the world are going to shrug off their debt loads and economic growth rates will suddenly shoot up to 5 %, 6 % or more?

Let's take a «middle of the pack» IPCC SRES model - based «scenario and storyline» representing «business as usual» with very rapid economic growth, human population continuing to grow but at a slower rate, leveling off at a population of around 10.5 billion by the end of the century and no «climate initiatives»

There has been one reason for the reluctance of some of the rich countries of the world to reduce their emissions and help to stave off environmental catastrophe — the perceived impact of reducing emissions on the rate of economic growth and especially the growth of a handful of powerful industries.

According to an economic analysis within Sunday's report, an investment to stop climate change will only knock 0.06 percentage points off the world's annualized economic growth rate from now till the end of the century.

Though $ 1,000 / hour billing rates aren't scaring off large firm clients, the high cost of lawyers» fees, particularly in recessionary economic times, is a major factor driving the growth of pro se representation, reports USA Today.

«The loss of export sales will probably take about three - quarters of a percentage point off the growth rate of our economy in 1999,» says Fred Flick, NAR vice president of economic research.

«Mortgage rates are low, economic growth has accelerated in recent quarters, and housing is coming off its best year in a decade.

But the weak economic growth has led Federal Reserve policymakers to hold off on additional increases in the central bank's benchmark short - term interest rate.

Since neither economic growth nor inflation is off to the races, the Federal Reserve is free to follow a «measured» approach to raising interest rates.

«Despite weak economic growth, housing got off to a good start in 2017 because low mortgage rates have given the spring homebuying season a pleasant surprise.