Sentences with phrase «other economic sector»

However, less than 1 % goes towards mitigating the toll farming takes on the natural world — despite agriculture contributing more to environmental degradation than any other economic sector, say researchers.

The sector is now adding jobs at a faster clip than virtually any other economic sector.

He says variation in political opinion is generally more accepted in Silicon Valley than it might be in other economic sectors, and that many in the tech world «are going to shrug their shoulders and say, «that's who he is.»»

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

«To make precollege science and math teaching more competitive with other career opportunities, resources must be provided to compensate teachers of mathematics, science, and technology comparably to similarly trained S&E professionals in other economic sectors,» Challenge declares.

«Unfortunately, fishing is a small activity compared to other economic sectors in France,» she says.

The index is designed to track the performance of companies engaged in the artificial intelligence («AI») and robotics segments of the technology, industrial and other economic sectors.

«Bali time» is an expression that shows the Balinese reluctance to be obsessed by punctuality but many Balinese in tourism industry or other economic sectors are now familiar with punctuality.

We interviewed tourism officials who expressed caution about clamping down too much on development, given the lack of growth in other economic sectors, and fisherman concerned that no - fishing zones could end fishing altogether — saying local fisherman aren't the main problem and are already facing high fuel costs and competition from cheaper seafood imports.

Other economic sectors and other provinces have done better at reducing emissions.

«Given that tourism is set to grow faster than many other economic sectors, the international community may consider its inclusion in the future in climate commitments, such as the Paris Accord, by tying international flights to specific nations,» said Ya - Yen Sun, of the University of Queensland's business school and the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Because Ontario is contractually obligated to pay for most of the production costs of curtailed and exported energy, OSPE believes it would be better to find productive uses for the surplus clean electricity to displace fossil fuel consumption in other economic sectors.

Thus, there is less excess available for other economic sectors, and most economists, businesses, and governments have not accepted this position.

This also allows you to diversify your capital into other real estate syndications or in other economic sectors.

Not exact matches

The real significance of the Google Patent Starter Program is instead more subtle, and should be seen against the backdrop of other moves Google is undertaking to change the economic incentives that have made patents such a problem for the tech sector in the first place.

Other resource sectors were around the flatline as worries about the economic fallout from a U.S. budgetary impasse pressured commodity prices.

Or, do the economic positives we hear each day about low interest rates, low unemployment, low inflation, a healthy banking sector, rising real - estate prices, technology improvements, protection of resources, renewable energy and the rise of India — among others — suggest that any downturn or crisis will merely be a short - term market correction, with the kind of economic rebound we saw following the 2008 crisis?

Other possible factors that officials said could negatively affect the economic outlook included «persistent weakness in the housing sector, a continued slow rise in household income, or spillovers from developments in the Middle East and Ukraine.»

Ones that align with Beijing's strategic and economic priorities will get the green light, while others in sectors like sports and entertainment will be frowned upon as Beijing considers them frivolous.

[2] These jobs tend to provide higher pay and better benefits, and they have been more resilient to economic downturns than other private sector industries over the past decade.

This past year, the information technology sector and other growing areas of the market have benefited from optimism about the global economic recovery and improving corporate earnings.

The New York Fed also reported that the regional housing sector had a less consequential effect on regional economic conditions than in other parts of the nation where housing played a more significant role in dampening economic activity.

You may disagree with Krugman's analysis, but it's a little disingenuous to try to denigrate and dismiss Thomas Mulcair's economic ideas when they're based on Nobel prize winning work in economics (the intellectual case, that is; the factual case that this phenomenon is occurring today, in Canada, is purely a question of whether the appreciation of our currency is based on the oil and gas boom and whether a high dollar results in lower exports in other sectors, both of which you seem to have admitted are accurate.)

This area covers the impact of regulatory and other policies, such as taxes and subsidies and competition policy, on specific economic sectors (except those covered by the Institute's natural resources or financial services research), on consumers, and on the overall state of competition in Canada.

You get some sense of the scale of the emissions trail that has accompanied this shift in economic geography when you consider that the emissions coming from China's export sector alone are greater than the total emissions from any other economy other than the US's.

Performance of companies in the financials sector may be adversely impacted by many factors, including, among others, government regulations, economic conditions, credit rating downgrades, changes in interest rates, and decreased liquidity in credit markets.

Manufacturing in the United States is a significant driver of U.S. economic growth, featuring a higher gross output than any other private sector industry.

Furthermore, we feel much more detail should be provided on the economic forecasts, including forecasts of the various components of national income and expenditure, and comparison to the private sector average, among others.

If HMF is becoming a major economic force in the Alberta energy sector, it would certainly have an impact on the economics of the other Alberta CCS projects.

This trend likely stems from a reaction to challenging economic times when investors prefer businesses that require lower levels of total capital (this is a key characteristic of the software industry compared to others in the IT sector).

«Meanwhile, other jurisdictions are ahead of B.C. in terms of encouraging farming and food processing to support, expand, and sustain their agriculture sector for environmental, health and economic purposes,» said Dix.

Other compelling factors include Vietnam's improving economic outlook, affordable property prices, expanding transport links, and burgeoning education sector.

«Even though Premier Clark and the B.C. Liberals are completely pre-occupied with LNG to the exclusion of other important economic sectors, they are failing to do what's needed to ensure responsible development of B.C.'s LNG potential,» said New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

Data from the Institute for Supply Management, along with other statistics, suggest the US economy continues to be driven by the services sector, whereas growth in manufacturing (outside the buoyant auto sector) showed signs of slowing in August, possibly due to dollar strength and weakening economic prospects outside the United States.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

«One of the reasons why economic growth has been weaker in this expansion than others is a lack of government spending now I think that in the short - term negative in the long run I think a move in resources from the government sector to the private sector is positive but it takes a while for that to manifest itself in stronger overall GDP growth».

Transfer payment: A payment from one party to another without quid pro quo, such as watered costs in the form of economic rent, interest and other payments to the financial and property sectors.

«The associations urge President Trump to avoid any decision which would do harm to so many downstream steel manufacturing companies and other steel consumers, our employees, and our customers, with little or no additional protection to the basic steel industry, while at the same time causing great economic harm to numerous other sectors of the US economy.»

Ideally, when it comes to which sectors you're investing in, you'll have a nice mix of both defensive and cyclical stocks — meaning companies that should hold up well in all kinds of markets (like utilities) and others that can be expected to perform particularly well in certain economic environments (like hotels and restaurants, which benefit when the economy is booming).

Canadian firms in other sectors, including energy and mining, would be well - positioned to benefit if they had the access and protection afforded by an economic partnership agreement.

Trucks stimulate economic activity in every sector of the American economy — including health care, fuel and transportation, waste removal, retail, food and agriculture, manufacturing, banking and finance, and many others.

Economic expansion in this core was associated with two other dominant trends: growth in population (the so - called demographic transition, which both facilitated, and was facilitated by, industrialization) and the geographic inclusion of previously isolated, local, and ethnic sectors of the population into the commercial and industrial labor force.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

«This report underlines the value of the Australian food and grocery sector at a time when other manufacturing is moving offshore and being buffeted by internal and external economic pressures,» said Tanya Barden, AFGC's Director of Economics.

(3) to involve all concerned social and economic sectors and all other concerned parties in the implementation of the International Code and in the observance of the provisions thereof;

The Minister during his interaction with top editorial staff of the media houses informed them of achievements of the president in security, economic, war against corruption and other key sectors.

John Smart, CIHT's Director of Professional & Business Development who chaired the event said: «The transport sector is an area that stimulates economic recovery whilst contributing to other key agendas such as carbon reduction and developing a healthier nation.

Landing suddenly in Number Ten with no ministerial experience of economic, trading and industrial issues in relation to the EU, she assumed she could take the same approach with Brexit: full alignment in some areas, managed divergence in others, and a complete break in some sectors.

Second, the functionalist logic plausibly explains transnational cooperation in many economic sectors, like the steel and coal industries, but this may not apply to other cases.

Other European countries have reduced the rate of VAT for the home improvement market in order to tackle the informal economy and create new jobs and growth in this important economic sector.