Sentences with phrase «on economic choices»

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«The White House has a choice here: Take aggressive action on longstanding trade concerns or double down on economic growth.»

Instead, the Financial Choice Act would offer the industry other types of relief: Institutions would have to undergo fewer stress tests to prove they could survive another economic disaster and they would get more information upfront about what they would be judged on, for example.

The EPC educates policymakers, consumers and the media on the system's role in economic growth and the importance of consumer choice, security, innovation and stability for the continued growth of global commerce.

However, I think the awareness - raising effort is primarily directed at the public, and in particular those who can, by way of investment choices (whether as a shareholder or a tourist), put economic pressure on those decision - makers.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

With a Ph.D. in economics and a focus on the principles of free - market capitalism and «Austrian» economics, Mark Skousen has often gone contrary to the crowd in his investment choices and economic predictions — and has often been proved right.

Losses in risky assets will dissipate investor confidence, undermine economic activity, and leave the Fed with little choice other than to step on the accelerator for more easy money.

The UN principles emphasize environmental management to serve human need, promoting economic development, science and technology, national sovereignty, and, gingerly, restraints on population growth where that would help, leaving the choices up to separate national policies.

If the left insists on the liberal interpretation of our constitutional and political institutions in an uncompromising effort to defend the ever - expanding role of the state to secure the practical liberty of individuals, the right defends the free - market system and uncompromisingly rejects any restraint on the unfettered economic choices of individuals.

As it explained, «For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized their intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail....

Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.

«These are not just political conflicts or economic choices; they are moral choices with enormous human dimensions,» Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in a public letter last week.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

Being on such a tight budget, I have had to make my choices purely for economic rather than pragmatic reasons.

Just as the NHS was founded on the principle that no one can have perfect knowledge of whether they will enjoy good health, and therefore collective insurance is the best solution, social security needs to be re-thought for an age of ever more rapid economic change, as individuals seek more choice as to how to balance work and family life.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

«Whilst we have had to make some difficult choices, I am confident that our focus on the long term will ensure that we can continue to build a transport system that supports economic growth and reduces carbon,» transport secretary Philip Hammond said.

However, so far FiveThirtyEight has not done any predictions on the Brexit, so the choice has narrowed down to pure socio - economic models (without taking account of any polling data — so quite different from Silver) such as the one done by the political scientist Matt Qvortrup.

An emphasis on individual economic liberties obscures the question of who sets the menu of choices available to ordinary workers.

If he makes the wrong choice, Miliband will be gambling on a precarious coalition of the disaffected and the dependent who do not see, or do not want to see, the economic reality that the post-2015 government will have to face.

Labour has no choice - the economic news is so bad that the debt fuel pyramid confidence scheme can't be kept on the road for much longer.

Republicans contend that by not taking up a budget, Democrats have put off their basic legislative responsibility of making difficult choices on what to fund in tough economic times.

Ms Burrow also warned against the dangers of austerity: «Given a choice of economic policies, two - thirds of people support government action to invest in job creation to allow economies to grow and pay off debts compared with less than one in four who want debts paid off now by cutting back on government spending.»

Clegg said after the election that he had no choice but to go back on his word: a national economic disaster loomed, national interest trumps party politics, amassing power and all its trappings through brazen dishonesty was actually an act of sacrifice!

«Buffalo is on its way to being fully restored as a City of Choice,» Dr. Cash said, «and these children that we help now will fuel the human capital pipeline and economic growth for Buffalo well into the future.»

«We're going to be out there campaigning on economic justice issues and we will take the fight to the Tories because there is a choice to be made: do we want to live in a society based on individualism and private provision, or do we want to defend the principles of the national health service and properly fund social care?»

«Voters want to hear about the economic and financial consequences of the choice that they make, and it is on the outcome of that debate that the result of the referendum is likely to turn,» professor John Curtice, research consultant at ScotCen Social Research, said.

One way of approaching this question is to put forward a stark and unimaginative choice between two models: either something based on European Economic Area membership; or a traditional Free Trade Agreement, such as that the EU has recently negotiated with Canada.

Though I recognize that tough choices will need to be made and everyone will have to sacrifice, I agree with Governor Cuomo that we can turn this crisis in to an opportunity to reform our state government, put it on a sound fiscal footing and partner with the private sector to spur economic development and job creation.»

The voters of Westchester and Rockland will have a clear choice in this election between a political outsider, who is laser - focused on addressing the considerable economic and fiscal challenges facing our nation, versus someone who continues to kick the can down the road.»

«If we make the right choices and focus on the right priorities, we can build on our strengths and move forward with innovative ideas that will make Mt. Vernon a model of economic vitality, community sustainability, and political transparency in Westchester County.»

Robert B. Catell, Chairman of SUNY Stony Brook's Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center said, «John Dyson, through his extensive public service to New York state in the energy, economic development and business fields, is an excellent choice to serve on the NYPA Board.

Texas will have a choice in the next few years, to continue and improve on the economic policies that have made us the envy of the nation or to follow the path of California or Detroit, leading to financial ruin.

Ken will do wonders for New York's economic development and I applaud the governor on his choice.»

On his website, he had cited four main objectives — returning power and choice in education to parents, teachers and local districts; pursuing governmental ethics reform beginning with the Governor's office; making sure communities are safe without abridging Second Amendment Rights; and to stimulate economic growth and bolster middle - class financial security.

In response to a report from Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn that most American 17 - year - olds have deep deficits in historical knowledge, Benjamin Barber sardonically proposed a multiple - choice test for 47 - year - olds: his point was that both we and our teenage children would do well on items of immediate social, cultural, and economic relevance and poorly on the rest.

Socio - political, economic and personal choices must be based on the laws of physics (natural laws) in order to be in harmony with Earth and the human life.

Given the impact of educational attainment on a variety of economic and social outcomes, a positive result could have significant implications for the value of school - choice programs that include charter high schools.

Below is a breakdown of the lesson objectives: * All students will know the main measures of an economy * Most students will have an idea of what the UK economy is currently like * Some students will know how different factors can effect the UK economy The lesson looks at the basics of the following macroeconomic concepts with definition, examples and valid video links: * Inflation * Unemployment * Economic growth * Gross domestic product (GDP) * Balance of payments * Exchange rates The lesson concludes with a nice multiple choice quiz to test students on the lessons theory.

We are here on Mother Earth as humans, and our purpose is to become truly humane, as we make our choices and decide the purpose of our existence, for we are already in Mars, in the universe, in the moon, but we are still looking for our soul... human rights, and the economic, social and cultural rights of peoples, and the practices for the care of the planet are the ways to be about the exercise of our full humanity.

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

Shanker allied with liberals on trade unionism, public schools, and economic equality, while finding common cause with conservatives on issues like standards, public school choice, racial preferences, bilingual education, and communism.

The study considers the impact of the socio - economic background of young people on their educational attainment and post-16 choices.

Summary: Countries have a choice of focusing on educational quality improvements and reaping the benefits of future growth improvements or of letting the future be stuck with today's economic outcomes.

For me to have to pass a multiple - choice test with questions on the economic systems of ancient Egypt and Greece just doesn't make sense.»

These capacities, while quite vague, put the focus directly on the skills of students (e.g., sufficient oral and written communication skills to enable the student to function in a complex and rapidly changing civilization; sufficient knowledge of economic, social, and political decisions to enable the student to make informed choices;...).

Miss Hoxby, an expert on the economics of school choice with the National Bureau of Economic Research, said the AFT study was «junk research» and «misleading.»

The schools in the Imagine family share a common culture based on Shared Values (Integrity, Justice and Fun) and Six Measures of Excellence — Academic Growth, Parent Choice, Shared Values, Character Development, School Development, and Economic Sustainability.

In this movement, some researchers saw democracy in action as power devolved from the state to local schools, sometimes culminating in outside stakeholder involvement.147 Many contentions about site - based management, community control of schools, community schools, and school choice were based on democratic and communitarian theory.148 Some researchers and policy makers influenced by economic theory have begun to view the relationship between schools and communities differently.