Sentences with phrase «policy differences at»

Nothing illustrates better the ideological and policy differences at all levels of the Labour Party than the contradictory opinions being offered on the issue of free movement.

Not exact matches

The difference between the two approaches is a subtle one in that the central bank's current policy tool - a 101 trillion yen ($ 1 trillion) program of asset buying and lending - also expands the BOJ's balance sheet, which at a third of GDP is a bigger proportion of the economy compared with those of the U.S. and European Union's central banks.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, said a large package could be difficult since the parties have a slew of policy differences on infrastructure — such as how to pay for it.

CHANGE AT THE FED: Investors have generally expected a smooth transition from Janet Yellen to Jerome Powell as Fed chair, with little difference in approach to rate policy.

Michael Pettis, a professor of finance and economics at Peking University, is an expert in the Chinese economy, and he has argued for years that China's trade surplus with the United States and the rest of the world is driven by much stronger forces that the value of the Chinese currency or differences in tariff policy.

Good macroeconomic policies can, we trust, make some difference at the margin by creating a stable environment in which others can carry out the important work to understand and address these real problems.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

However, depending on the cost, you may do better financially to save and invest the difference (plus the money would be available to you at any time and to your family should you die during the term, instead of locked up in the policy).

Senior food policy officer at European consumer rights group BEUC Camille Perrin said: «It remains to be seen what will be deemed a «significant» difference in composition, and we trust national authorities will consult consumer organisations to inform their assessment.

Benitez met Hicks and Gillett after Sunday's defeat against Manchester United at Anfield in an attempt to resolve recent differences over transfer policy.

This included a research summary aimed at professionals and the media, called The Dad Deficit, for our Maternity campaign and a more general summary of our policy stance for our relaunch as the Fatherhood Institute, called The Difference A Dad Makes.

For those who might wonder, the main difference between having a doula and having a relative or friend with you while you labor is that while your loved ones can share their experiences based on a handful (at most) births, most doulas have assisted at dozens or more births (many have assisted hundreds,) know hospital policies, often know the hospital staff, and are professionals.

But I do think it's important to look at the sometimes enormous difference between what happens on the policy level and what actually takes place in cafeterias.

At 3 months, there were no differences in breastfeeding rates between the 2 groups; 85.8 % of infants in the offer - pacifier group were exclusively breastfeeding compared with 86.2 % in the not - offered group.282 The AAP policy statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk includes a recommendation that pacifiers can be used during breastfeeding, but implementation should be delayed until breastfeeding is well established.283

[143] As Labour leader, Miliband made speeches aimed at winning over disaffected Liberal Democrats, identifying a difference between the «Orange Book» Lib Dems, who were closer to the Conservatives, and Lib Dems on the centre - left, offering the latter a role in helping Labour's policy review at that time.

The former MTA chairman outlined his education agenda at a policy forum with his fellow candidates at the Central Synagogue on the East Side Tuesday night, where the sharp differences between the Democratic and Republican candidates were on full display.

Mr Cameron's Hampshire speech, which hit out at «mass immigration» and promised to reduce it significantly, highlighted major difference between Tory and Lib Dem policy, which Nick Clegg and Vince Cable had previously considered a mark of their success.

Let me quote directly from my first article, «In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

Labour and the Tories would you notice the difference well not in policies, the welfare state may get a bit more interesting otherwise I think Labour and the Tories may stay joined at the hips

When audience members at the fringe suggested that there were serious policy differences between Labour and the Lib Dems — such as the attitudes of the two parties towards civil liberties — Campbell's fellow panelist, former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke, joked that he was «surveillance master in chief».

Baucus declined to specify the «concerns» presented at the meeting, although the legislation has been slowed by Democratic differences over policy and financing.

A side - by - side look at key policy differences as outlined in the three different budget proposals:

«Children's free play in this context revealed many similarities, but also some compelling differences among the communities,» said Sandra Waxman, the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and faculty fellow in the University's Institute for Policy Research.

Roger Pielke Jr, a science - policy expert at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says that differences in the policies are inevitable because the agencies have different missions and scientific integrity is a vague concept.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

For Patrick Clemins, a science - policy analyst and director of the research and development budget and policy programme at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC, the differences between Obama and Republican leaders in the House are clear — but perhaps not as large as is sometimes assumed.

«We need to understand why these differences exist... and figure out how to translate it to the broader population of physicians,» said Dr. Ashish Jha, a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and senior author of the paper.

«Some of the differences in disorder rates are truly remarkable,» said Ronald Kessler, McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and senior author of the paper on mental disorder prevalence.

One emergent difference between today and the 1950s, said Daniel Sarewitz of the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, Tempe, was the realization that a science establishment created by elites would essentially require elites to manage it as well.

The demographic differences raise important policy questions, said Rachel Morello - Frosch, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies the health risks of air pollution but was not involved in the Yale study.

But even if one supposes that he's not happy about it, his analysis of the difference between the Bush administration policy and the new Obama guidelines is mistaken at best, misleading at worst.

This lack of basic knowledge and confidence means that people are uncertain of the facts and the issues at stake, so that how the subject is framed makes an enormous difference in shaping judgments about policy preferences.

At a press conference, he said that he hoped the new report brings about the changes in government policy that are needed to make a difference.

As the DfE's direction since 2010 has been to move away from top - down prescription, calls for statutory limits on working time and enforced work - life balance policies not only run contrary to this strategy but the likelihood of such dictatorial tools making a significant difference is debatable at best.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

«At the task force secretariat, we believe that we are not here to write another report,» she says, «but to translate policy into concrete actions and to make a visible difference to the lives of children in schools.»

Chester E. Finn Jr.'s tiresome and laborious attempt to show that there are significant differences between President Clinton's education policies and those of former President George Bush («related story, 01/25/95) merely obscures the fact that Mr. Clinton's program basically follows through on the policies set by Mr. Bush and the governors at their famous education summit held in September 1989 at Charlottesville, Va..

Because we aim to make a difference in how policy is crafted and implemented, we translate the research insight into practical, realistic and cost - effective policy options that can be taken up by policy - makers at all levels.

Policy differences are hashed out at the weekly senior staff meetings and at biweekly meetings of a strategy committee, which considers major initiatives.

The school's strict policy is aimed at combating sexual harassment; therefore there is no difference between an unwanted hug or a hug between friends.

It is the beginning of looking at differences and arguments between fiscal, monetary and supply - side policies.

On most questions of public policy, differences between the affluent and the public at large are on the margins.

In a new study presented at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts academic achievement gains of students.

Isn't it likely that at least some of the suspensions gap stems not from racism or variations in discipline policies but from differences in student behavior — differences driven by poverty and the other out - of - school factors mentioned above?

At the other extreme, countries that have adopted policies to stream students into different kinds of secondary schools have created large between - school differences in student performance (between - school variance above 60 per cent).

«We found that how schools implement blended learning — such as orientation sessions to prepare students and staff for what may be a new style of learning — makes a huge difference in student experiences and ultimately on student outcomes,» said Marianne Bakia, Ph.D., senior policy analyst at SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning and lead author of the report.

Summary A randomized control trial by Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University found that compared to control schools, Students are more physically active at Playworks schools: There was a 43 % difference in the amount of time students spent in vigorous...

He called on policy makers to learn from what had been achieved in Asia and also to look at differences within a range of OECD members, as it was clear that there were real variations between different countries on a range of aspects of different work in schools.