Sentences with phrase «on economic competitiveness»

Teryn previously served as Senior Advisor and Project Director at the Breakthrough Institute, a public policy think tank, where he co-authored several acclaimed reports on economic competitiveness policy, and founded the Breakthrough Fellowship Program.

And the impact of student achievement on economic competitiveness is equally clear.

The two C's echo in school hallways, driven by a political priority on economic competitiveness.

Bracey also suggests that we shouldn't worry about the TIMSS results because they don't seem to have any effect on our economic competitiveness.

Mr Redwood, who led the Conservatives» review on economic competitiveness, attacked Labour's «doctrine of equivalence» between date rape and so - called stranger rape, which he said he said «led to jury scepticism about many rape claims».

But as has been pointed out many times on RPE, the Nordics manage to rank highly on economic competitiveness rankings while have superior social outcomes, especially in regards to poverty and inequality.

Not exact matches

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

Prior to that, Matt worked in policy development, assessing the impact of various tax and economic initiatives on competitiveness and investment attraction.

Warren Buffett has called rising healthcare costs a «tapeworm» on US economic competitiveness.

Canada should understand this and act to support what we have achieved, as well as help Mexico convince our mutual neighbour to change the new government's misguided and damaging attacks on our common objectives: more prosperity, more economic growth and more competitiveness for all three nations.

Governments of all political stripes have been elected and re-elected, here in Canada and abroad, on a similar economic platform: openness to trade, fiscal discipline, tax competitiveness and investment in skills, research and infrastructure.

The grade was determined by the Board of Trade's Government Budget and Finance Committee, based on four key criteria — economic vision, spending management, tax competitiveness, and debt management — which were originally submitted to Finance Minister Bill Morneau in December 2015.

«We were particularly encouraged to see fiscal discipline in light of the continued economic uncertainty seen elsewhere in Canada and the world, the establishment of a commission on tax competitiveness to evaluate current taxation instruments like the provincial sales tax, and proposed changes to the property transfer tax to start addressing housing affordability by increasing the exemption threshold and introducing a third tax rate on higher - valued properties.»

Members of the Board of Trade's Government Budget and Finance Committee travelled to Victoria today for the provincial budget lockup, where they received an advanced copy of the budget and assessed it on three criteria: Economic Vision, Fiscal Prudence, and Tax Competitiveness.

He is the only Canadian member of the US Council on Competitiveness and an internationally renowned voice on innovation strategy, competitiveness and international eCompetitiveness and an internationally renowned voice on innovation strategy, competitiveness and international ecompetitiveness and international economic policy.

This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.

A thorough analysis of the region's economic competitiveness among other states and regions focused on the tenets of an «Innovation Economy.»

By John Manley The Canadian Council of Chief Executives has supported efforts by successive Canadian governments to build on our historic defence and economic partnership with the United States and to improve our mutual security and competitiveness.

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

The «Beyond the Border» and Regulatory Cooperation action plans promise to create an even more robust economic relationship and strengthen our global competitiveness to the benefit of our citizens on both sides of the border.

With all the focus on «competitiveness,» has anyone wondered what happened to the Premier's Economic Strategy Committee that was announced last summer?

-LRB-...) In the domestic economy, consumer preferences are shifting toward cheaper imported goods, and exporters are facing diminished demand due to a confluence of tepid external economic activity and reduced competitiveness on pricing.

The phase out of the PST on electricity is an important step in ensuring the tax code does not impeded the economic competitiveness of our province.

One of the chief strategies to hold back such pressures is to increase the economic competitiveness of the enterprises that rely on maintenance of the natural forest.

There are also policy actions which we have to take - investment climate reforms to improve business and economic competitiveness, focus on developing MSMEs, deepening long term savings through pensions, insurance and sovereign savings, land reform to eliminate constraints in time and cost around land transactions (including a review of the governor's consent requirement), and actions to reduce inflation, interest rates and business operating costs.

«A sustained focus on health and education will build the capacity of the national workforce, bolstering economy - wide competitiveness and facilitating economic diversification beyond the extractive industries,» the World Bank said.

«The federal tax plan is a devastating and targeted attack on New Yorkers that threatens the economic competitiveness of our state,» Cuomo said.

We strongly urge Albany to continue the progress made in improving New York's economic competitiveness while focusing on pro-growth initiatives as budget negotiations enter this final stretch.»

In the Global Competitiveness Report 2011 - 2012, World Economic Forum 2011 it found that the UK ranks 83 out of 142 countries for the compliance burden it places on businesses.

Through a comprehensive economic development plan focused on improving and growing the area's core industry clusters, the Southern Tier is focused on restoring the region's competitiveness both nationally and internationally.

In Ghana, he said trade facilitation has been enhanced with a 57 % increase of volumes of goods processed at the Customs Technical Service Bureau which will have a very dramatic impact on Ghana's international investment competitiveness with direct impact «on our domestic economic situation, offering up much more job opportunity, and improve living standards for our people.»

Being the largest political party entails the great responsibility to deliver on all those issues which matter the most to our citizens: jobs and economic stability, competitiveness, security, and prosperity.

According to the acting president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the focus will be on five broad areas namely: macroeconomic policy, economic diversification and growth drivers, competitiveness, social inclusion, employment and governance.

Mr Clark believes there is a growing consensus among three groups that come to the debate from different directions: the green lobby; people worried about security of energy supplies (who do not want to become dependent on Russian imports); and those with concerns about economic competitiveness.

The comptroller's first - blush analysis focused heavily on how the Trump proposal could affect New York's (mainly downstate) six - figure middle class — but virtually ignored the plan's broader implications for the state's finances and economic competitiveness.

«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»

The council believes raising the fast food minimum wage won't necessarily combat poverty and could hurt the state's overall economic competitiveness by imposing «significant new costs on employers.»

The pledge mirrors many elements of Cohen's platform, calling on candidates for state Legislature to commit to fundamental reforms necessary to return the state to financial stability and economic competitiveness.

In December 2010, City of Buffalo's Mayor Byron W. Brown formally asked the Buffalo - Niagara Partnership to organize and manage a group of experienced business leaders and economic development professionals to make recommendations to build on The Queen City Hub Planand improve the competitiveness of downtown Buffalo.

I will continue to push for science and technology research and education because they put our economic recovery on a stronger course; however, we can all do more to publicize the tangible benefits that greater investment in science and technology has on our global competitiveness.

The PI - centric model, with its dependence on individual researchers putting forth ideas in hopes of winning short - term funding, is too time - consuming, diffuse, and uncertain to produce the bold strategic advances crucial to maintaining the nation's scientific and economic competitiveness, Isaacs insisted.

Many of the centres operate collaborative multi-disciplinary ventures focusing on long - term challenges relevant to the nation's efforts to build its scientific capacity and enhance economic competitiveness.

Stringent IP protection and enforcement is a pillar of Singapore's successful startup scene, contributing to the nation ranking third on the World Economic Forum's 2017 - 2018 Global Competitiveness Index.

In addition, in some nations education goals have focused very narrowly on the development of skills that are presumed to contribute to national economic competitiveness, the formation of national identity, and local relevance, without sufficient attention to the development of the skills that contribute to effective citizenship and global citizenship.

Indeed, our economic prosperity and competitiveness hinges on how well we educate children.

He cites as evidence the fact that a nation's place on the Current Competitiveness Index developed by the World Economic Forum is not perfectly correlated with the TIMSS results, and the United States ranks high on the index.

The index, released here recently by the Council on Competitiveness, was created to show «how U.S. economic performance compares with that of other nations and how current U.S. performance compares with its past record,» the council's report says.

The combination of sensitive schools and an overarching focus on education as a tool solely to promote global economic competitiveness has seemingly deemphasized the need for civic and moral education in classrooms, according to Levinson.

But beyond economic competitiveness, too many students are missing out on the significant cognitive and cultural benefits of second language acquisition, which include increased scholastic success, heightened sympathy for others, and increased creativity.

Our goal is to inform the national body of work on rural education and explore its implications for increasing educational attainment and economic competitiveness of Idahoans and other Americans who live and work in rural communities.