Sentences with phrase «on social infrastructures»

Delusions of Grandeur is a collective of emerging artists brought together by a shared interest and commitment to their art, a need to provide critique and commentary on social infrastructures within American society and to contribute to the prominence of the collective black voice and presence within contemporary art.

He is part of the artist collective, Delusions of Grandeur, a group of emerging artists focused on providing critique and commentary on social infrastructures within American society, while contributing to the prominence of the collective black voice and presence within contemporary art.

On Social infrastructure, President Mahama said with the efforts employed about eighty percent of Ghanaians have access to electricity and with the expansion of water systems Accra for instance currently has a hundred percent access to water, the first in the history of the country.

As Nigeria's economy suffers a near recession due to the falling oil prices, with 27 States out of 36 states in the country needing bail - out funds to offset salary arrears, Lagos has been witnessing an unprecedented influx of people from far and near, thereby putting pressure on social infrastructure and security.

In the two series «The Darkness of the American Dream» (2009) and «Another Day at the Office» (2012), he meditates on social infrastructure, the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and worldwide economic chaos.

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

The article equivocates on whether we can assign global warming to this particular phenomenon, but there is little doubt that our social systems, beliefs, mental models, and infrastructure is contributing to overall global warming.

As we look ahead to building the social infrastructure for a global community, we will work on building new tools that encourage thoughtful civic engagement.

At each step, we built social infrastructure like communities, media and governments to empower us to achieve things we couldn't on our own.

Facebook (fb) chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision on Thursday of his company serving as a bulwark against rising isolationism, writing in a letter to users that the company's platform could be the «social infrastructure» for the globe.

So Mr. Bernanke's favored policy is to get banks lending again — not for the government to spend more on deficit spending on infrastructure, social services or other full employment projects.

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

The deceleration is likely to result from a reduction in government spending on infrastructure and social welfare to moderate the fiscal deficit, he explains.

Built on the strong foundation of social economy and enterprise activity in Québec, these initiatives will provide valuable infrastructure to support social entrepreneurs and impact investing in the region.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

Nearly 200 delegates from around the world, representing governments and leading technology company executives, were in attendance at the annual conference and awards presentations to discuss and recognize ways that broadband communications is making a practical but profound impact on the infrastructure, economy, businesses, governments and social growth.

In particular, this means increased focus on education, immigration, social infrastructure and the participation of women and indigenous peoples in the economy.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

Non-financial assets are defined as expenditures on any construction - related work, from road repairs and maintenance jobs, to local parks and buildings, to social infrastructure spending such as schools, kindergartens or hospitals.

The # 25bn a year for infrastructure investment, # 8bn over the next Parliament for social care and yesterday's pledges on education spending were all more or less as expected.

You must take credit to put in the critical social infrastructure but you must put it in places where you would get return on investment.

Passionate about his country and committed to building an enduring legacy, President Mahama who is inspired by such heroes as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Prof. John Evans Attah Mills revealed that his vision from inception was to focus on five areas: Electricity, Education, Water, stabilizing the economy as well as restoring social and economic infrastructure.

This year, Hillary Clinton's team raised hundreds of millions of dollars online, built a massive data and human infrastructure to turn out their voters, invested their money in targeted TV advertising, created opportunities for volunteers to work in their own social circles on behalf of the candidate — all pieces Obama had shown should work.

And so you have to build social and economic infrastructure first and then after that you put livelihood empowerment on top of it.»

Sue Percy, CIHT Chief Executive said: «Transport infrastructure plays a vital role across the whole spectrum of society and impacts on both economic and social development.

As Issie Lapowsky describes in Wired, to facilitate their social campaign, they built a data infrastructure to support multi-variant testing of Facebook content on a massive scale:

That was a development stall, for the new NCNC government could not match the old AGgovernment's huge investment on social and physical infrastructure.

It should tell you that there is something happening with the economy, the economy is becoming more resilient than it was in the past; and what we've done is to lay the basis for more investments by building on the social and economic infrastructure.

The manifesto according to Mahama hinges on four thematic areas which includes putting people first, strong and resilient economy, responding to social infrastructure and improving transparent and accountable governance.

The party claimed electoral victory on the back of many campaign promises aimed at boosting social infrastructure and providing a convenient economic environment for private businesses to thrive.

The highlight of the launch was the presentation of a cheque for the sum of One Hundred and Seventy Six Million, Three Hundred and Fifty thousand Naira (N176, 350,000) to Hon. Aminu Sani Gumel, the Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Jigawa State on behalf of the 27 Chairmen in the state for the operation of the social security scheme where a grant of between N50, 000 and N100, 000 would be given to each polling unit across the state for minor infrastructure repair and social assistance.

«Transport infrastructure plays a vital role across the whole spectrum of society with an impact on both economic and social development.

Sue Percy said: «Transport infrastructure plays a vital role across the whole spectrum of society and impacts on both economic and social development.

, «Infrastructure, National Asset Management and National Productivity, Education, Health, Human Capital and Social Policy», «Taxation, Governance, Democracy and Development», «Intergenerational Discourse on Getting Government to Work for Development and Democracy in Nigeria.»

He had a clear focus on expanding the country's economic and social infrastructure, and also worked to actualise his vision of expanding access to secondary education and also to quality healthcare across the country.

We will focus on critical things, infrastructure and social investments,» he said.

Mounting pension costs, declining tax bases, crumbling infrastructure and a growing number of out - of - work citizens relying on social safety nets meant deep budget deficits and tides of red ink.

«We have also committed to investing these recovered funds on Infrastructure projects and our National Social Investment Programme.

They campaigned on this policy without realising that you can not start a free SHS without a commensurate social infrastructure in place.

He called on the Federal Government to collaborate with the major mining company in the community to develop road infrastructure in the area and get their Social responsibility Agreement signed in 2012 according to the provisions of the 2007 Mining Act to be respected.

It also focused on what the millionaires called an underinvestment in social services, including the growing homeless crisis, and infrastructure.

He said as social democrats the government can not relent on its effort to provide greater access to social services and infrastructure to the most vulnerable in the societies.

«The country remains impoverished by many indications... In the 20 years between June 12, 1993 election and today, Nigeria has earned enough money to create a Dubai in each of the six geo - political zones and make our citizens some of the most prosperous people on earth, but what we have instead is collapse of infrastructure, deepening poverty (70 % rate from 45 % in 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.»

Diaz Jr. said the focus in recent weeks has been on the hard infrastructure of the MTA — but called for attention to the city's «social infrastructure.»

Speaking at the Inauguration of a one of the Community Day Senior High Schools at Kwaobaah Nyanoa in the Eastern Region, Mahama argued that his first four years in office was spent on improving the social infrastructure of the country which has been in dire need of a face - lift for some time now.

With an aging population placing increasing demands on entitlement programs like Social Security, and likely federal spending increases for defense and infrastructure programs, budgets for scientific research could come under intense pressure.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

«We're now seeing cities really attempting to provide a more holistic lifestyle, a stronger emphasis on the human capital and social capital, ICT infrastructure and being more sustainable.