Sentences with phrase «other global crises»

However, in light of climate change and other global crises, it might not be wise to look to Las Vegas and Dubai's development models for inspiration.

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For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

During the 2008 - 09 slide, it was the other way around; then, as soon as the global financial crisis was contained and energy traders could see the level at which global demand would bottom out, the price trend reversed itself.

Crisis Economics is probably the most lucid and accessible attempt yet to place recent events into a global and historical context, exploring the deep structural roots that make it of a kind with other crises dating as far back as the 17th century.

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.»

By the time the global financial crisis hit in 2008, the foundation had 20 percent of its portfolio in microfinance and other impact - driven debt and equity vehicles.

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.

The global financial crisis, like the Great Crash of 1929, also reflected widespread regulatory shortcomings and other weaknesses in a number of countries.1 But it is likely that monetary policy played at least a contributing role in encouraging the buildup of leverage and asset prices in a fragile financial system.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

Ford reclaimed control of its blue oval logo last year after using it and other assets as collateral to borrow $ 23.4 billion in 2006 which allowed the company to weather the global financial crisis.

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.

Others worry that it will be harder to coordinate a global response to the next geopolitical crisis.

Europe's debt crisis has triggered fiscal tightening that economists fear will slow the region's economic growth, in turn slowing imports from Asia and other countries and subsequently the pace of global growth.

Ford reclaimed control of its logo last year after using it and other assets as collateral to borrow $ 23.4 billion in 2006 that allowed the company to weather the global financial crisis.

Like other central banks in advanced countries, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) adopted an unconventional monetary policy after the 2007 — 2009 global financial crisis (GFC).

One of the most notable features of the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007 — 2009, from an investment perspective, was the way seemingly unrelated asset classes moved in tandem with each other.

Politicians and central bankers will manage the crisis of 2016 - 2017 as they have most other crises (such as 1987, 1998, 2000, 2008) by increasing spending, addressing an excess debt problem with even more debt, and pumping more «funny money» into the global financial system.

As the global financial system struggles to work its way out of the crisis and regulators in the US and Europe begin the painstaking process of derivatives reform, prime brokers, dealers and other derivatives providers find themselves staring across a dramatically altered market for options, futures, swaps and structured and more - exotic products.

Swaps and other derivatives, blamed by some for causing the global financial crisis, have returned in a big but deceptive way.

The US policy response to the global financial crisis was early and aggressive, which is at least partially why its economy bounced back so much more quickly than other major developed markets.

Then, the financial crisis of 2007 - 2008 hit the global markets and the yen ascended in relation to most other currencies, with the Swiss franc being one notable exception.

Adding to the concerns are other economic problems including a high unemployment rate of over 25 %, the recent demise of the country's VBS Mutual Bank amid a «severe liquidity crisis,» as well as the highest rate of economic crime (77 %) in the world, according to PwC's biennial Global Economic Crime Survey.

The feminist challenge to inherited Christian teaching may be more fundamental than that of the global crisis or other religious Ways.

My final say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?

Following a price crisis for world dairy farmers earlier in the decade, global prices for milk and other dairy products look set to grow strongly during 2017.

In some of these companies the departure of the CEO coincided with a dramatic change in market conditions or some other external shock such as the global financial crisis.

Financial crises, pandemics, cyber attacks, climate change, and other global threats are the underbelly of globalization.

In any case, to face the financial crisis and the underneath change in the balance of powers in the global economy, it has become increasingly evident that there is no other durable solution for the European economy (ies) than to move towards further fiscal and budgetary integration.

The 1980s African debt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt Revisited).

Mr. Ayiku noted that fake news «is also a global crisis» and countries around the world are taking particular interest in it while others are also formulating laws to check fake news.

In the paper, the authors acknowledge that offshore groundwater «is not the answer to global water crises, but it has a strategic value that should be acknowledged so that it can be weighed against other options in long - term strategies.»

In other words, the shift to a service economy will not simply allow countries to grow out of the environmental crisis of global warming.

Another great carbon footprint calculator is available at EarthLab.com, an online «climate crisis community» that has partnered with Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection and other high - profile groups, companies and celebrities to spread the word that individual actions can make a difference in the fight against global warming.

And such wage gains feed back into global prosperity more readily than other kinds of economic boosts, such as profits, because wage - earners use the money to buy more goods and services — precisely the economic stimulus governments have been trying to bring about since the crisis of 2008.

Food and economic analysts are warning that these governments could be the first victims of the global food crisis, and others are similarly vulnerable.

A declaration by the panel of a global crisis would give the WHO power to issue temporary recommendations on travel restrictions or other ways to control the spread of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, which has infected 79 people and killed 42 of them.

Moreover, such wage gains feed back into global prosperity more readily than other kinds of economic boosts, such as profits, because wage - earners use the money to buy more goods and services — precisely the economic stimulus governments have been trying to bring about since the crisis of 2008.

Among other things, it features articles on new developments in HIV cure research, recent studies that show promise but also possible pitfalls of using adenovirus vectors in HIV vaccine candidates, and the funding crisis at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

We are chatting about her passion for World Vision (and how she got into working for World Vision), the Global 6K for water and ending the world water crisis, and we also just talk about life and what living a life to serve others looks like.

Archer is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees, who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage, and betray each other for personal gain.

Friday, July 25 «Archer» Fox Booth Signing Press Room: 3:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Panel: 5 p.m. — 6 p.m.: Screening and Q&A: «Archer» is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.

Even the end credit graphics, detailing figures from the global financial crisis and subsequent bailout, couldn't redeem The Other Guys.

Doing what he does best, Snake sneaks into the compound, cardboard box in one hand and the ever - trusty SOCOM pistol in the other, in order to avert yet another global crisis.

In this way, Porsche demonstrated something that other automotive manufacturers lacked in an era of global oil crises and increasing traffic congestion: steadfast composure.

Then one day in 2008, I was laid off, along with hundreds of others in my department and many thousands of others in the global financial crisis.

I was laid off in 2008, along with a lot of other people in the global financial crisis, and I swore that I would never let that happen again.

Should the current Greek debt crisis or other global events cause the markets to falter, investors will look to allocate more to liquid alternatives.

I recently wrote that Japan would be the next shoe to drop in the global financial crisis, and I got a fair amount of hate mail for it from other investors.

The company continued to grow its assets under management and it also bought other companies: State Street Research & Management in 2005; Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2006; and then during the financial crisis Barclay's Global Investors and its large Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) business iShares.