Sentences with phrase «policy gaps in»

According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the slowdown is mainly due to the transition to fully commercial market - based operation, which has left policy gaps in some countries.

This publication makes particular reference to agroecology, food sovereignty, nutrition and gender equality, it identifies existing policy gaps in the region and recommends strategies to support the transition to agroecology in Africa.

The six - month waiting period would fill a big policy gap in the current Better Care Act, which requires health plans to accept all patients — but doesn't require all Americans to purchase coverage, as the Affordable Care Act does.

Not exact matches

The draft also suggested that in the areas of security, defense and foreign policy there should be «no gap» in co-operation and another contract should be drafted.

Despite nearly equal voter turnout — black turnout was slightly less than white turnout in 2008 but exceeded white turnout in 2012, 66 % to 64 % — the gap between party loyalty and policy output is wide for black voters.

That might mean you don't need a policy at all, or only need one that fills in gaps — say, to add medical coverage and cover any trip costs that exceed the cap, said Benna.

The Economic Policy Institute reports, «the black - white wage gaps are larger today than they were in 1979.»

Earlier this year, Jones launched a public initiative asking commercial insurance companies to write policies to cover what he described as «coverage gaps» in the industry.

Tarun has worked in health for 30 years, focusing on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health gaps.

Numerous policy initiatives have been proposed to flatten the gap in upward mobility.

According to a 2011 Institute for Women's Policy Research report, the gap for full time - workers was 23 %, compared to 11 % in the federal government, where pay is public.

Apparently a lot of people who've incorporated are sensitive about having this gap between personal and small - business tax rates called a «loophole,» but what the heck: It's a loophole, in the sense that it was never designed as a goal of public policy.

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

Its policy prescription is based on the current size of the output gap and the deviation of current inflation from the Fed's objective, not on how these variables are likely to evolve in the future.

Lastly, the Liberals have recently announced major policy proposals in support of Aboriginals, the most important being a commitment to eliminate significant» gaps» between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.

Medigap policies are sold by private companies to fill in the gaps of Medicare coverage.

Record exports trimmed the U.S. trade deficit in March 2018, the first drop in seven months in a massive gap that President Donald Trump is determined to shrink with an aggressive America First policy.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Record exports trimmed the U.S. trade deficit in March, the first drop in seven months in a massive gap that President Donald Trump is determined to shrink with an aggressive America first policy.

Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.

The Conference Board of Canada's Global Commerce Centre has embarked on a research series to explore the magnitude of services in Canada's global commerce picture and help bridge the gap on this issue between policy - makers, businesses, and the public.

Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers exists almost entirely in the private sector and not in the public sector.

Another reason for that intolerably high public sector compensation premium — Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized -LSB-...]

This widening in the gap between fixed and variable housing rates is likely to have contributed to the pick - up in the proportion of borrowers choosing to take out fixed - rate housing loans: in November 2004, the latest available data, 11 per cent of new owner - occupier housing loan approvals were at fixed rates, up from 7 per cent three months earlier and the highest share since the beginning of 2004, which followed a period of monetary policy tightening (Graph 45).

«This strategy will identify gaps in existing policies and programs and propose evidence - based initiatives that will focus on the prevention and elimination of veteran homelessness,» Gauthier said in an email.

Specific policies include a Doctors and Nurses Fund to increase training capacity for new health care professionals; working with Aboriginal communities to close the gap in the health status of Aboriginal peoples; and the introduction of a drug plan to ensure Canadians have access to catastrophic drug coverage.

Your Edward Jones financial advisor can take a look at your current policy and offer suggestions to help you fill in any gaps in coverage or replace it entirely.

There is a widening gap between individuals who have benefited from the policies of governments and those who have seen little relief, and that gap is particularly wide in autocratic countries where people have inadequate ability to change those policies or to voice their political opposition.

A proper crime policy from an A-rated insurance carrier is an important policy that fills gaps in cyber liability and technology errors and omissions policies.

Dr. Aidis has been a trailblazer in created new policy oriented measurement tools creatively filling data gaps.

This gap has been caused by monetary policy through both quantitative easing (QE) and through forward guidance, which has reduced volatility in short rates.

Just as the Fed is home to a wide range of policy views, it is also an institution with a large gap in incomes.

Furthermore, the Fed would like to adhere to the so - called «Taylor Rule» (in spite of Professor Taylor's protestations that it is misinterpreting and misusing his concept), a mathematical construct that purports to make monetary policy more «scientific» by establishing an arithmetic rule for varying the administered interest rate according to the variance of «actual from target inflation» (note that «inflation» refers to the change in a price index in this case, not the phenomenon of inflation of the money supply as such), as well as the variance of economic output from «potential output» (i.e, the so - called «output gap» is incorporated in the formula as well).

Most of this is illegal deforestation, due to aggressive agriculture combined with gaps in policy.

The group cited many gaps and holes in the implementation of the said policy citing lack of specific administrative orders of departments on how they will implement risk assessment and regulation of GM crops as required by the JDC.

Specifically, the PBFA has called for: Support for specialty crops; research on plant protein; removing» anti-competitive» policies to bridge the large competitive gap between commodities and specialty crops; support for organic crops; inclusion of transparency and accountability provisions; and referencing «plant - based foods that are major sources of Nutrients of Concern» in 7 USC Section 3157 under «competitive special and facilities research grants.»

So we know that policies like paid family leave after a new baby arrives — which the U.S. is the only industrialized country in the world not to have in place — are critical to helping to close that wage gap, as well as fair pay policies, sick day policies and affordable childcare policies.

We have opened up a new debate within the policy - making community and in the press, about leave entitlements and the pay gap.

To call for action to bridge the remaining gaps in policy and programmes on breastfeeding and IYCF, and

Additionally, numerous reports have identified gaps in food - safety policies, potentially allowing unsafe food onto children's lunch trays.

In this chapter, we focus on recent research related to home visitation programs» identification and response to maternal depression, identify gaps in this existing research, and provide recommendations for the practice and policy community on addressing maternal depression within home visitatioIn this chapter, we focus on recent research related to home visitation programs» identification and response to maternal depression, identify gaps in this existing research, and provide recommendations for the practice and policy community on addressing maternal depression within home visitatioin this existing research, and provide recommendations for the practice and policy community on addressing maternal depression within home visitation.

Some of the programs and policies that can fill in the gaps to help parents reclaim this missing year are explored in a separate report from Promundo - US.

Huge thanks to Alison and the APPG, and to all the amazing organisations in our Core Group who worked together to identify gaps in UK policy and programmes in infant feeding, and to jointly generate recommendations for Action!

Also, all governments, agencies, donors should invest in these interventions to bridge the gaps shown in the policy at national level urgently to enable women to breastfeed and foster improved child development globally.

Lack of political and national leadership, uneven health professional training, formula milk marketing, poor data collection and patchy community support for mothers were identified as gaps in UK policies and programmes.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in officIn fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in officin office.

The three reviews will be carried out by MPs on the Treasury Committee; they will look at the VAT in relation to Tax Gap, Brexit, Business and Good Tax Policy; how well HMRC is dealing with tax avoidance and evasion; and The Conduct of Tax Enquiries and the Resolution of Tax Disputes.

Then David turns to Professor Simon Szreter — social historian and founder of «History & Policy» — to discuss how academics are trying to find ways of restoring the public's faith in politics, and bridge the gap between the politicians» narrow view of the world and how the voters see it.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Nick Clegg has hailed the success of the coalition's policies in closing the gap between richer and poorer students.

When reading the book, what struck me was the extent to which the material appears to be responding to policy gaps rather than to gaps in the academic literature.