Sentences with phrase «overall economic performance»

Canada's overall economic performance ranks sixth among 16 peer countries and earns a B grade, according to the Conference Board of Canada's «How Canada Performs» 2012 economic report card.

While the other runners - up from last year, Saskatoon, Gatineau, Que., Charlottetown and St. John's, all earned a solid B + again this year, several other cities zoomed past them thanks to better overall economic performances.

We evaluated each Vermont community according to its average credit score, a sound barometer for overall economic performance.

According to the latest Annual Economic Report, the overall economic performance of the EU fishing fleet improved again in 2015.

Commenting on the widespread push to encourage more students to study STEM in order to boost the economy, the report notes that «public policy to broadly stimulate the number of STEM graduates will have no direct effect on the overall economic performance of Indiana, and risk [s] suppressing the wages or increasing outmigration of future STEM graduates.»

[P] ublic policy to broadly stimulate the number of STEM graduates will have no direct effect on the overall economic performance of Indiana, and risk [s] suppressing the wages or increasing outmigration of future STEM graduates.

In the absence of broader structural measures, the authors conclude that «targeted technology initiatives, strategic industry policies, and the like will have modest positive effects at best, and may instead prove harmful to overall economic performance».

Yet there is no doubt that many aspects of policy can, directly or indirectly, have a significant impact on both a country's overall economic performance and the strategies adopted by businesses, whether positive or negative.