Sentences with phrase «own policy purposes»

The federal government should also consider policies where funds can be distributed relatively quickly and serve a useful public policy purpose beyond stimulus.

Some assets, however, may no longer serve a public policy purpose and are of particular interest to, for example, Ontario's large pension plans as good long - term investments.

The Bank of Canada uses its own internal economic forecasts for monetary policy purposes.

This latest effort by Senate Democrats to hit the reverse button and go back to the investment - killing Title II scheme via a Congressional Review Act (CRA) vote serves zero legitimate policy purpose.

Since late 2008, the high level of reserve balances has not been actively managed on a day - to - day basis for monetary policy purposes.

April 12, 2018 — The C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) called for the Bank of Canada to maintain its target for the overnight rate, the very short - term interest rate it targets for monetary policy purposes, at 1.25 percent at its next announcement on April 18, 2018.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) writes investor protection rules and other rules regulating broker - dealers and banks in the United States municipal securities market, including tax - exempt and taxable municipal bonds, municipal notes, and other securities issued by states, cities, and counties or their agencies to help finance public projects or for other public policy purposes.

That trend, rather than the published (or «headline») rate which can be affected by «special» factors, is what matters for monetary policy purposes.

As a minimum, however, the effects of changes in interest rates should be removed when trying to assess underlying inflation for policy purposes.

The food and beverage industry frequently sponsors research on the health effects of added sugars consumption and has produced reviews for policy purposes.

To provide information for public health or public policy purposes, a larger long - term trial targeting individuals with marginal vitamin A status is needed.

Model Breastfeeding Policy The purpose of this protocol is to promote a philosophy and practice of maternal — infant care that advocates breastfeeding.

UKIP was formed around this single policy — of leaving the EU — and will struggle to find policy purpose, post-Brexit.

The then Chancellor, Alistair Darling, had authorised the Bank in January of that year to set up an Asset Purchase Facility (APF) which would provide a framework for the MPC to use asset purchases for monetary policy purposes should that prove necessary.

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

A better takeaway message might be, «Never rely on the conclusions of this NRC report for any policy purpose.»

The examples presented here illustrate the seven main ways in which the supporters of teacher certification have twisted and turned the research findings to suit their policy purposes.

Measurement researchers, as we might expect, are most interested in the assessment components of reform and are particularly concerned with validity issues and with the psychometric qualities of new assessments that are needed for accountability and policy purposes.

With the Fed trying to manipulate the yield curve for its own policy purposes, starving savers of income, the yield curve is not a useful measure.

It is not as if the Taylor Rule uses any asset variables for policy purposes (though a better model might do so).

There are theoretically more complex strategies and products on both sides of this debate, but both practically and for policy purposes, an empirical investigation into the basic choices is an excellent starting point for discussion.

Thus, for economic policy purposes we ought to take a cost - weighted mean of the plausible scenarios, rather than the cost of the plausibility - weighted scenarios.

Scientific hypotheses and data that have never been rigorously tested are not fit to be used for public policy purposes, and particularly for those involving multi-trillion expenditures per year.

I've also learned that for policy purposes, the study isn't valuable without the proper critical analysis and rebuttals.

Until climate models have been unambiguously confirmed by experiment, I believe that it is unwise to rely on them for policy purposes.

If the inaccuracy is 10 %, then the models probably can not accurately predict either the transient or equilibrium climate response to an increase of CO2 accurately enough for policy purposes.

All of which illustrates that there is lots of work to be done before results of model runs should be taken seriously for policy purposes.

The broader implications of Matsui and Pielke (2005), which will be well understood by anyone with an understanding of the physics of the lower atmosphere, should cause consternation among anyone who uses the global temperature trend record for scientific or policy purposes.

«a simple indicator for policy purposes, and as basis for discussing pros and cons of different policy choices, but not to be taken too literally as a real threshold.»

Isn't the purpose of a climate model being used for policy purposes to forecast how conditions will change in the future as a result of additional CO2?

Defining what is dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system and, consequently, the limits to be set for policy purposes are complex tasks that can only be partially based on science, as such definitions inherently involve normative judegments.

But the whole point of the models, for policy purposes, is to discover how the climate reacts to additional CO2.

Part of the problem is UNFCCC's wording which, for mitigation policy purposes, focuses on GHGs.

This makes the models unsuitable for climate prediction — and for policy purposes generally.»

(I mean: useful for policy purposes, which is the only reason any of us are here).

Michael, I think a better take on what JamesG is saying that modelers need to stop demanding to have it both ways, and to stop pretending that their models are a perfect representation of reality for policy purposes.

For policy purposes, it is sometimes sufficient to show that the alarums are exaggerated or baseless, or that proposed solutions are unlikely to work.

My main urging has been that climate scientists stop acting so much like prima donnas and that they recognize an obligation to the wider public if their results are to be relied on for policy purposes, that they archive data and methods in proper due diligence packages, and that thorough and truly independent due diligence be carried out on key models being relied on for policy purposes.

He is using the term «null hypothesis» in its political context, shifting the burden of proof for policy purposes, but hoping to give his politics a scientific gloss with the term.

What is the function or policy purpose served by the requirement, and how can the same function be performed electronically?

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We need to ask ourselves whether these rules are serving our policy purposes.

The policy purpose of this rule is to allow «people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects» from government intrusions allowing them privacy, comfort and security as a basic human right.

Comment: Many commenters recommended that the privacy rule permit individuals to opt out of having their records used for the identified «important» public policy purposes in § 164.510, including for research purposes.

In the former case, jurisdictions have determined that public policy purposes can not be achieved absent the use of certain protected health information, and we have chosen in general not to disturb their judgments.

As under the proposed rule, we permit covered entities to use or disclose protected health information without the individual's consent, authorization or agreement for specified Start Printed Page 82499public policy purposes, in compliance with the requirements in § 164.512.

Whether as part of a historical review, in the context of a specific set of facts, or for forward looking policy purposes, the human strengths of rhetoric and strategic thinking are needed to give the results shape and bring them to life.

Whether such apologies serve a useful policy purpose in the period in which they are made is a topic for another time.

Not exact matches

For purposes of computing ratios, billing and policy fees and other (which are a component of other revenues) are allocated as a reduction of underwriting expenses.

In an internal memo obtained by CNBC, IBM's Rometty condemned the «hate groups in Charlottesville» and said the policy forum «can no longer serve the purpose for which it was formed.»