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In this piece, we will discuss the investment policy lever in more detail.

Rob Bailey, a biofuels expert at Oxfam, questioned the accuracy of Schafer's claims and said it was critical to focus on eliminating biofuel subsidies in the US as it was one of the few policy levers in the hands of western governments.

Not exact matches

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

Just in terms of the economics, European nations have given up one of their main levers in responding to crises (monetary policy), without getting any of the transfers that fiscal union would have brought.

In addition to pulling the levers of British monetary policy, Carney will have to remake the Bank of England's ossified culture.

While the Fed's zero interest rate policy has yet to lever much in the way of a domestic spending rebound, no one can doubt its ability to drop the value of its currency.

I am no economic policy expert, not really even a neophyte, but it always surprises me how few levers and metrics the Fed has to work with in monetary poloicy.

Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the B.C. NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.

Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.

«A globally competitive company tax rate is one of the most direct and effective economy - wide policy levers we have at hand for boosting investment,» the council says in its submission to the hearing.

And while the upstate - downstate divide within the Senate is more apparent than in perhaps other years, Flanagan allies point out he can still claim credit for a range of policy wins for Republicans over the last two years in the Senate, the only lever of statewide power the GOP holds.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

EdMiliband's whole leadership style was premised on the tactical exploitation of this and that issue, on scraping back to power in a multi-party world without ever trying to resolve the larger issues or achieve genuinely popular policies that might compromise a future Labour government's grip on the levers of power.

A closer investigation of the impact of training by race / ethnicity may provide insight into differences in R01 award probability and perhaps provide a policy lever for diversifying the scientific workforce.

By contrast, attention to the academic content — what we teach — is only now beginning to emerge as a serious lever in education policy.

«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetableIn Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetablein the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

In my recent paper, I argue that enhancing high school policies could be one lever for policymakers.

Luckily we have policy levers to keep students in school and in class.

As long as states play the lead role in education policy making, their actions will have significant implications for other actors with greater access to levers for change.

In general, we see policy researchers concerned with broad reforms involving standards, assessments, reorganization, governance, and the like; literacy is simply one of the subjects, and standards and assessment are two of the «tools» or levers of reform they study.

One year on (2014), the NCC presented to Minister Boles - «Government could also draw upon other policy levers such as Ofsted and quality assurance frameworks to stimulate the careers marketplace in order to reduce complexity and transactional costs, build its capacity, and assure the quality of services in this market.»

There remains, however, another important policy lever that has been overlooked: investment in school leadership quality and stability.

Her teacher policies have been widely cited as a lever that enabled Rhee to produce an unprecedented turnaround in low DC students» scores.

These sessions focused on the Departments» joint policy statement, respective family engagement frameworks, and the ways in which systemic engagement practices can act as a lever for improving transition and alignment from cradle to career.

As for states: Through policy, accreditation and funding for principal training programs, and other levers, they have a major role to play in getting schools the leadership they need.

Formed in 2013, this aligned action network brings together state chiefs and their education agency staff who are committed to activating key policy levers around licensure, program approval, and data as they transform educator preparation in their respective states.

He described three matters policymakers must understand before taking action: principals» place on their state's policy agenda; six possible levers that could trigger change; and their state's unique context, including the ways in which key education - related institutions interact.

In 2017, state policy makers — particularly state legislators and state education agencies — placed great emphasis on key policy levers affecting educator preparation.

These speakers discussed gap - closing strategies, policy levers to support effective practices, and directions the education field will (and should) take in the future.

They contend that educational policies in LAUSD will need to recognize the district's political realities and suggest five policy levers to be built around networks of schools.

Regarding the legislators noted in the article in Education Week, the opening sentence says plenty, «Seeking more allies for his school improvement agenda, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today asked a select group of state legislators to keep «pushing very, very hard» on the policy levers that he and President Barack Obama have made a top priority.»

In fact, the interesting thing is most of the policymakers, policy levers that I'm talking about here are pretty cost neutral.

When grounded in agreed - on standards for teaching — such as the recently revised Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards — and developed in ways that overcome the challenges cited, evaluation can be an effective lever for state and local policy.

The action plan provides an overview of key levers in ESSA to support the concept of a well - rounded and complete education, actionable policy points to engage and communicate with state and district leaders around ESSA, and strategies for developing a communications plan.

The Fed did not have an over-leveraged economy, and so they invested in short - dated Treasuries, and adjusted Fed funds as their major policy lever.

«Reforming regulations to encourage new building won't be easy, but city governments have policy levers at their disposal to help alleviate housing affordability problems in Canada's major cities,» Green said.

Which other specific policy levers — mortgage lending rules, increased access to the Home Buyers» Plan, taxes or restrictions on real estate investments by foreigners — is your government considering using in order to help average Canadians achieve their dream of home ownership?

Long ago, Jesse Ausubel, a veteran Rockefeller University analyst of global resource and environmental trends, asserted that, «in general, politicians are pulling on disconnected levers» at the intersection of energy and environmental policy.

«Deployment of clean energy technologies, inclusive of those currently available and in the innovation pipeline, is pushed to its maximum practical limits across all key sectors... This pathway implies that all available policy levers are activated throughout the outlook period [2014 - 2060] in every sector worldwide.

In the search for planet levers to address climate change, we should look for ways to significantly cut emissions that don't require grand policy solutions, such as carbon taxes or global cap - and - trade schemes, or the approval of the U.S. Congress or the United Nations.

Thus, fostering transitions toward more productive livestock production systems in combination with climate policies targeting the land - use change appears to be the most efficient lever to deliver desirable climate and food availability outcomes.

«The Innovator Database and Policy Finder build on the Roadmap by creating a one - stop shop for stakeholders interested in understanding food waste policy and innovation — two levers that have the power to make change across sePolicy Finder build on the Roadmap by creating a one - stop shop for stakeholders interested in understanding food waste policy and innovation — two levers that have the power to make change across sepolicy and innovation — two levers that have the power to make change across sectors.

And the other adjustments we encourage people to make if they're concerned about budgeting in the monthly policy cost is their two big triggers or levers you can pull.

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The political landscape can present a number of formidable challenges to knowing and acting on what policy levers to pull, with whom, for whom, and in what order.