Sentences with phrase «policy measures designed»

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While these new measures will benefit the industry, manufacturers in Ontario may be disappointed in the lack of policies designed to assist companies in getting goods to the United States in a timely and consistent manner.

The best way to safeguard financial stability and improve the balance between economic and financial risk taking is to put in place policies that enhance the transmission of monetary policy to the real economy — thus promoting economic risk taking — and address financial excesses through well - designed macroprudential measures.

Better to come up with policies that grapple with that reality, rather than charge ahead with unprecedented measures designed to recapture yesterday's growth.

This notice is designed to provide you with a summary of the non-public personal information we may collect and maintain about current or former investors; our policy regarding the use of that information; and the measures we take to safeguard the information.

We expect a comprehensive policy package to be delivered at the 10 March meeting, including some measures specifically designed to support the banking sector.

We continue to expect a comprehensive policy package to be announced at the 10 March meeting, including some measures specifically designed to support the banking sector:

Although the UNESCO statements make no mention of anticommercialism, the MacBride Report proposes in Recommendation # 58 that «effective legal measures should be designed to: limit the process of concentration and monopolization; [and]... reduce the influence of advertising upon editorial policy and broadcast programming.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Although people might question Macmillan's judgement and policies, on the domestic front, he talked of a «grand design», with attempts to co-ordinate measures to tackle unemployment, inflation, balance of payments, modernise industry, work with trade unions and promote class harmony.

Klein's comments were a rebuke of the mainline Senate Democrats» earlier in the day referring to the eight - member IDC as «the rogue Democrats» while also challenging them to vote for «resistance» amendments — measures designed to bolster liberal policies in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election.

But state lawmakers there, like in the Republican - controlled Senate, will likely consider measures designed to alter education policies approved in the 2015 - 16 state budget, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said on Wednesday.

After several years of more progressive policies, typified by David Cameron's famous «hug a hoodie» comments, the party's home affairs team unveiled a tough set of measures to designed to prioritise public safety over criminal's rights.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday released a package of measures designed to curtail sexual harassment in the workplace that include a uniform policy for state government employees, a ban on taxpayer funds for settlements related to sexual assault and harassment and require the disclosure from public and some private entities of harassment - related settlements.

Supporters defended Cuomo's liberal credentials throughout the campaign, noting his work to pass same - sex marriage and gun control measures while also working to cut state government dysfunction and boost the economy through business - friendly tax policies and initiatives designed to spur economic development in western New York.

Use well - designed assessments to measure the overall health of the system (not to reward or punish), and use results to drive policy and evaluate progress.

Research on private school choice is much better equipped to measure the effects on participants» outcomes than to offer guidance on policy design.

The May 23 conference at the Urban Institute, a think tank based here in the nation's capital, examined the policy implications for value - added statistical designs, which typically measure students» learning gains from one year to the next.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

Although the measure was more about politics than policy — it was designed to raise the Hollywood actor's stature in advance of a future run for governor — the ballot initiative did reflect Schwarzenegger's sincere interest in inner - city schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City Games.

The studies themselves weren't designed to isolate any of those factors to measure their direct impact — and more research doing just that is needed to give policymakers a clear road map to success, says Grover Whitehurst, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington.

Together, these two changes — measuring performance levels using a performance index with as many categories as possible and weighting growth more heavily than status — will go a considerable way toward improving the design of accountability policy and reducing unintended consequences.

Students receive scores on the FCAT ranging from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), with the thresholds for each performance level designed to correspond with the letter grades A through F. Thus results from the FCAT are ideal for developing a measure of how generous individual teachers» grading policies are.

Summary: Despite a recent shift toward national control over education policy, New Hampshire has implemented a variety of measures designed to embrace localization and flexibility.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.

Measuring Child Outcomes in the Early Years provides information to inform decision - making regarding the assessment of young children's learning, development, and wellbeing (LDWB) for state and national assessments designed to influence early childhood education (ECE) policy and practice.

His work interests include assessment and accountability technical and policy issues, assessment and accountability design and implementation, measures of student growth, standard setting, educator accountability systems, and impact evaluation of policy and programs.

To complicate matters, over the course of the 20th century, states began using time - based measures — called instructional, clock, or contact hours — in a number of other state policy areas, such as minimum requirements for educational programs, school approval standards, and formulas for distributing state funding.11 Moreover, depending on the specific school design and the particular state context, high school innovators can encounter a wide range of other friction points.

When states design high school graduation policies, a multiple - measures policy can help them avoid defining achievement narrowly as performance on one test.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

During this workshop, a League facilitator assists charter schools with items such as strategic planning process design and facilitation, SWOT analyses, transition from founding board to policy setting board, and identifying key performance indicators, measures, metrics and targets.

From the creation of a more stressful learning environment, to harsher policies and increased arrests by school resource officers that disproportionately strike students of color, measures designed to increase safety may not be producing the outcomes that educators and students are looking for.

But the way to address this concern is not to abandon a measured reduction in excessive pay and benefits for government workers, but to simultaneously enact policies designed to lower the cost of living for all Californians.

The index is designed to measure the performance of the highest dividend yielding companies within the TOPIX universe that have followed a policy of...

Unlike the scenarios developed by the IPCC and reported in Nakicenovic et al. (2000), which examined possible global futures and associated greenhouse - related emissions in the absence of measures designed to limit anthropogenic climate change, RCP4.5 is a stabilization scenario and assumes that climate policies, in this instance the introduction of a set of global greenhouse gas emissions prices, are invoked to achieve the goal of limiting emissions and radiative forcing.

It is designed to reduce emissions in six provinces, working with provincial, district and commune authorities, local communities and the private sector, with the objective to «enhance Viet Nam's ability to benefit from future results - based payments for REDD + and undertake transformational changes in the forestry sector», with a focus on «the implementation of national policies, measures and national strategies or action plans that could involve further capacity - building, technology development and transfer and results - based demonstration activities».

a) Carefully designed public meetings that provide social spaces and incentives for a wider net of citizens to come together to learn, discuss, plan and provide meaningful input on policy measures, government initiatives, and private and non-profit sector planning.

This analytical report aims to help policymakers and their advisors wishing to initiate or develop policies promoting energy efficiency in buildings to assess the most efficient mix of policy measures for a given environment as well as to design new initiatives.

This policy document illustrates how well - designed climate risk insurance — when applied in conjunction with other disaster risk management measures and strategies — can protect people against climate shocks by acting as a safety net and buffer shortly after an extreme weather event.

This is the reason why the scientific method has been so successful: instead of very clever men convincing their less clever fellow - men that they should be in charge of things and dictate policy, it requires those very clever men to design an experiment, make a falsifiable claim as to the outcome of the experiment, measure the actual results of the experiment and then publish their results so that other very clever men can check their claims, verify that the results are reproducible and then refine and test the hypothesis with other experiments.

In discussion, subjectivities were revealed in the science of designing effective REDD + policies and measuring their performance.

In addition to the ethical problems with cost arguments identified above in response to questions one and two, this question is also designed to expose the fact that a nation that refuses to reduce its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions is violating promises it made under the UNFCCC to adopt» policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system.»

Presenting the New Policies scenarios — including its unrealistic assumptions on renewable energy — as the reference scenario inevitably affects policy makers who will base their measures and policy designs on the WEO.

Decarbonizing the transport sector will be challenging for many countries, but by developing well designed policies that incorporate a mix of infrastructural design and modification, technological advances, and behavioural measures, co ‐ benefits can result and lead to a cost ‐ effective strategy.

Poor governance means that even when well - intentioned measures are in place, they are often undermined by corruption, apathy, or poorly - designed policies.

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They measured a state's existing and planned adoption of renewable energy sources, the impact of the industry on jobs and reviewed policies designed to grow the industry.

As the EU Commission prepares to release a review of the EU Renewable Energy Directive and Market Design Initiative in late November 2016, this RE100 report, prepared by E3G, calls on policy makers to ensure that measures are put in place that would give companies easier access to renewable power in Europe - providing greater control over energy costs and long - term business stability.

It's dubious that Beijing's «airpocalypse» would be solved by a single stopgap design measure such as this, but let's hope that unconventional designs like this will be complemented with sound policy in Beijing's battle for cleaner air.

That is why USCAP has called for a program that combines a emissions caps with complementary policies and measures to speed the deployment of big change technologies in critical areas like power generation, vehicle design, and new fuels.

Our goal is to help the nations of the world and the aviation industry use a policy tool — a well - designed global market - based measure — to help airlines turn away from the path of rising climate pollution.