Sentences with phrase «policy measures such»

In 2008, after the outbreak of the financial crisis, the ECB first lowered the key interest rate and also adopted several non-standard policy measures such as providing unlimited liquidity to the Euro area banks at a fixed interest rate and against an adequate collateral and then extending the list of accepted collateral.

The change followed the introduction of policy measures such as restriction of logging in natural forests and a ban on the export of raw logs.

The researchers note that there is more incentive for the alcohol industry to get on board with this proposal, compared to other policy measures such as higher taxation, limited access and marketing restrictions.

Under state law, a governor can insert policy measures such as new ethics in late budget emergency measures.

It is a trend that is only set to accelerate as policy measures such as the recommendations from the Taskforce for Climate - related Financial Discosures and new green finance rules from the UK and EU start to take effect and require firms to disclose more information on the climate risks they face.

Putting more effort into green projects now could improve international competitiveness, and initiating policy measure such as carbon taxes would ease debts, he notes.

Not exact matches

The index measures 500 consumers» attitudes on future economic prospects, in areas such as personal finances, inflation, unemployment, government policies and interest rates.

Given that our esteemed lawmakers can't seem to agree on anything these days, the entrepreneurship organization is a long way from being able to guarantee that such a measure will ever pass, but on the Hill's Congressional Blog recently, Kauffman's policy director Jason Wiens and Dane Stangler, the organization's vice president of research and policy, did make a strong case regarding why it should.

Countries that don't have such unconventional policies need to take all the measures they can to strengthen their economies, Lagarde said.

Relying upon further macroprudential policy tools to contain housing risks in a timely manner is set against the mixed success of such measures to date.

He proposed zero measures to restrict access to the weapons that make mass killings easy to carry out; and at one point, he implied such policies would be pointless.

Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between macroeconomic performance and the quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as measures of central bank independence, the use of monetary policy rules, freedom to use competing forms of money, and exchange rate regimes.

Fighting the unholy black pall of islam, a fight that would be won with such a policy, should be the only thing that matters.For those that will not support such a measure, you are not soldiers against islam.

It creates explosive contradictions between political conditionalities that press for good governance, democracy and respect for human rights and economic conditionalities that impose such austere measures that the resulting inequalities can only be controlled by highly undemocratic policies!

National policies should be created to incentivize producers to change the way they manage their farming systems and adopt natural water retention measures used in organic agriculture such as green cover and intercropping as well as diversifying farmers» crop and income base so they have something to fall back on when drought strikes.

(a) Implement and / or further elaborate policies and measures in accordance with its national circumstances, such as:

Such measures indicated a move away from a media policy based on the idea of consensus, as the new government came to consider media policy a zero - sum game in which conflict became the main rule.

Republican lawmakers, too, do not want to appear too close with Cuomo on policy issues, especially when it comes to hot - button measures such as gun control.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

Instead of speculating on the impact of proposed policies such as basic income and environmental taxes Finland will now experiment, measure and scale

As such these plans would have clearly violated both Lib Dem party policy passed just weeks ago, and both the letter and spirit of the Coalition Agreement that states «We will implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion.»

In the House of Commons yesterday, the prime minister said that «by its very nature, illegal immigration is very difficult to measure», but insisted that policies such as the electronic borders scheme and ID cards would help to address the problem.

Ironically, the need to modernize the state's energy system dovetails with the goal of developing policies that encourage energy use reduction, efficiency measures, and the move to reliance on alternative energy sources, such as solar power.

Through his January State of the State tour, 2017 policy book, and executive budget, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out his proposals for such measures — an ambitious reform agenda, but one that the governor has done little to promote publicly since January.

The hiatus, they hope, should give scientists and policy - makers time to debate how such research might best proceed, and what safety measures should be required of labs that handle the virus.

A bipartisan energy policy group called today for action on climate legislation and laid out principles for such a measure, including views that collide with the leading House climate and energy measure.

Next year's school, «Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climate policies.

The researchers urge policy changes to job support measures such as mandatory paid sick leave or disability benefits.

«But given the political resistance to such approaches, there are other policy measures that can also encourage energy transformation and decarbonization.»

Cluster membership was then related to harm measures, such as alcohol dependence and self - rated health, and three policy - relevant variables: a liking for alcohol advertisements, price paid for alcohol, and time of its purchase.

His offence was to post messages on the widely read mailing list Tobacco Policy Talk, in which he questioned one of the medical claims about passive smoking, as well as the wisdom of extreme measures such as outdoor smoking bans.

But introducing such a measure would require collaboration between policy makers, stakeholders, researchers and healthcare professionals and a country - specific preparation and monitoring processes,» explains Rima Obeid.

And if so, are there measures that the public and policy makers would support that could actually bring about such a change?

The effectiveness of diversity policies was measured by whether employees agreed with statements such as, «My manager ensures that I always feel included at work.»

While these numbers explain why attention is focused on a reduction in maternal deaths, attention is also needed to defining and measuring the extent of problems around childbirth, such as mistreatment, to better inform constructive changes in policies and practices.

Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

Last, the participants took a standard measure of policy support for climate change, answering questions such as, «How much do you favor reducing carbon dioxide as a pollutant?»

Such well - intentioned policies that do not integrate mitigation measures ensure that poor neighborhoods will be flooded again and forced further into poverty.

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For a decade now, federal policy has required states to measure graduation rates uniformly, to set ambitious goals for raising those rates, and to hold high schools accountable for meeting such goals.

Such policies, according to CIPA, must include measures «to block or filter Internet access to pictures that: (a) are obscene, (b) are child pornography, or (c) are harmful to minors.»

As educators» discretionary authority over school discipline has been challenged and undermined, counterproductive authoritarian measures such as zero - tolerance policies have been implemented in its place.

While discipline measures like suspensions are intended to enforce school rules and improve student behavior, the negative outcomes of such policies should give us pause.

As background prep we did an exercise on the state of germany in 1871 after unification, then had a discussion of what type of constitution would be necessary, thinking about key areas of policy such as the economy, control of the military, social measures (education / health), etc and deciding whether these should be under national or regional control.

While this is a reasonable approach, given the high percentages of students from low - income families in CEP schools, such a policy tends to conflict with the heavy emphasis placed by the ESEA on measuring achievement gaps between students from low - income families and other students in establishing performance consequences for schools.

Almost all the policy attention has been on low achievers, and, in fact, they've made faster gains on measures such as NAEP than have their high - achieving classmates.

A recent report from the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend coPolicy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend copolicy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend college.

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one «nonacademic» indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.