Sentences with phrase «on global crises»

At a press conference on the opening day of the Assembly, General Secretary Emilio Castro attempted to sum up his goals for the meeting by first repudiating the notion that it would focus on global crises.

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«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

Shirakawa's doubts kept the BOJ firmly focused on interest rates, rather than the size of its balance sheet, even after it had driven its policy rate down close to zero after the global financial crisis.

Finance experts from the euro zone have weighed in on comments made by Wolfgang Schaeuble, after the German finance minister warned that debt and liquidity problems could spark the next global crisis.

The selection of the new BOJ leadership comes at a crucial time for Japanese and global markets, which have been rattled in recent weeks on expectations major central banks will whittle down their crisis - mode stimulus.

The founder and managing partner of the FullCycle Energy fund doesn't just focus on small problems: he harnesses new technology to solve global crises.

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.

Faced with a global financial crisis, engineering and construction firm Hatch revolutionized its business without losing focus on its people

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

In addition to covering the full range of investment opportunities, the book features new material on the Great Recession and the global credit crisis as well as an increased focus on the long - term potential of emerging markets.

We do not have a global financial crisis on our hands.

The global financial crisis initially slammed the brakes on the nation's economic expansion, wiping out about 20 million export - related jobs — this in a country where anything under 8 % growth is generally considered to be too slow for social comfort.

And while emerging markets have driven global growth since the financial crisis, China now faces a slowdown, and confidence in India's economy is on the wane.

Bolton thinks the low application numbers are partly due to the blame that has been placed on business schools for the global economic crisis, along with the bleak job market for MBAs, which has led to lower starting salaries and fewer job offers.

For the past seven years, growth has serially disappointed - sometimes spectacularly, as in the depths of the global financial and euro crises; more often than not grindingly as past debts weigh on activity

Since the 2008 debut race, the event has generated S$ 150 million in tourism receipts every year on average, except for 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis.

Esmail said that the emerging markets are in some sense reliant on China as an economic engine, and China's shadow banking crisis is the biggest risk to emerging markets, but valuation-wise the emerging markets are the most appealing part of global equities universe.

Entrepreneur Seth Siegel is on a mission to prevent the fast - approaching global water crisis and offers ways for you to get involved.

But unlike the 2011 rout, sparked by the eurozone debt crisis, the sudden collapse of global equities markets that began last week is all about China — which makes it all the more unnerving since few have a good grasp on how the world's most important emerging economy actually works.

Western Australia and Queensland - two states hit badly by the downturn in demand for resources - have the most proactive firms targeting new markets to stay on the front foot in the face of the global economic crisis.

Coupled with other bumps on the road (think the eurozone crisis and slow global growth) the overall effect, he added, «has been economic growth around 2 percent, and only a very gradual improvement in labor markets.»

The Southeast Asian economy expanded 4.9 percent on - year over the April - June period amid uncertainties in global growth, persistent weakness in oil prices and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, global foreign direct investment flows recovered last year to US$ 1.5 trillion, higher than before the financial crisis.

The crisis has uncovered some of the fallacies inherent in existing growth models, and left us with legacies that continue to weigh on global prospects.

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As the global credit crisis grinds on, it's getting tougher than ever for startups to secure financing.

As you can see, the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis had much less of an impact on state unemployment rates compared to other major countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, the European Union and United States.

«We will be asking him to respond in writing to the committee on these points; however, we are mindful that it took a global reputational crisis and three months for the company to follow up on questions we put to them in Washington D.C. on February 8.

Many foreign economists and investors on Wall Street have expressed misgivings about China's rapid accumulation of debt, particularly at state - owned enterprises, since the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009.

His statement followed one of the most chaotic sessions for the country's financial markets since the global financial crisis, with stocks on its benchmark Ibovespa falling more than 8 % and the real plunging 7.5 % against the U.S. dollar, the most since 1999, despite the intervention of the central bank of Brazil.

This is particular evident in relation to the global food crisis where everyday millions of tons of food on the global scale goes to waste due to inefficiency.

By 2007, on the eve of the global financial crisis, these had all declined to between 2 and 2 1/2 %.

China withstood the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and 1998 and the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 in part because its financial system depended on highly stable household and corporate deposits parked mainly at four huge, government - controlled banks.

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She was also a member of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's Economic Advisory Council, which included a group of 11 Canadian business leaders charged with advising the Government of Canada on the global economic crisis.

Most financial historians will agree that the 2008 global financial crisis officially ended on March 9, 2009.

The fact that Guterres ran a major UN agency during a global refugee crisis would help him to focus on ways to better integrate the various UN operations and to partner with other institutions.

Notably, the National Financial Work Conference has been the stage for: forming agencies to regulate the insurance and securities industries and bank bailout strategies in 1997, creating banking regulators and listing state - owned banks on exchanges abroad in 2002, creating the sovereign wealth fund, establishing the China Investment Corporation in 2007, which currently has assets of $ 813.5 billion, and developing methodologies for dealing with the global financial crisis of 2008.

Speaking by phone from Montreal on Wednesday, economist Paul - Andre Pinsonnault predicted Governor Stephen Poloz will cut the policy rate by a quarter point to 0.25 percent next month, matching a record low set in 2009 during the global financial crisis.

The signal from our Recession Warning Composite at that time was triggered by a shortfall in employment growth (alternate condition 4 below) that was subsequently revised away, so the last signal on this composite in the revised data appears during the global financial crisis.

The work of the Basel Committee on capital and liquidity standards, as well as the work of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on cross-border resolution, are but a few examples of the hard work that global bodies have been undertaking to address the weaknesses identified through the crisis.

Prospective returns on equities and bonds have fallen across the board after the global financial crisis.

Since the global financial crisis, the financial system role of central banks has expanded to place more emphasis on the prevention of financial stress and crises.

There has been substantial effort on the part of global regulatory and supervisory bodies to address the weaknesses identified in the financial crisis.

A survey showed that its manufacturing sector is on track in August for its weakest month since the dark days of the global financial crisis more than six years ago.

Tobias Carlisle of Eyquem Investment Management LLC has run the blog since December of 2008 during the global economic crisis, with a focus on research - based strategies that have generated long - term, market - beating returns for investors.

Not surprisingly, but quite appropriately, the focus of the meeting was on the crisis in Syria, and not solely on global economic and financial issues.

Even so, Poloz is willing to err on the side of nurturing an economy that's still feeling the effects of the last global crisis.

Reflecting on the 10 years since the credit crunch and subsequent global financial crisis, David Craig explains: