Sentences with phrase «policy official for»

Similarly Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh taught economics at Harvard he was a senior economic policy official for India for many years before he came into politics.

Prior to his current role, he was education policy official for Mayor Bloomberg, a second grade teacher and Teach For America corps member, a Fulbright Scholar in Thailand, and a director of corporate Strategy at the Advisory Board Company.

Maxwell has been a key policy official for the current administration.

Not exact matches

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano said he was «disappointed,» and posited that S&P didn't «understand sufficiently that the Cabinet is pressing for fiscal reconstruction.»

China announced its official Arctic policy to the world late last month, promoting Beijing's ambitions for the region and raising fears about a Chinese takeover of the polar zone.

Merkel refused to former President Barack Obama to even consider such a thing, and official international organizations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund have never asked Germany to lay off its totally inappropriate beggar - thy - neighbor policies.

His comment followed Abe's remarks on Monday that buying foreign bonds, considered an extreme measure by many officials, may be one policy option for the BOJ.

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.

Officials from the U.S. Federal Reserve meet for two days this week, starting Tuesday, to discuss fiscal policy and the trajectory of the U.S. economy in the wake of a weak employment report for the month of May.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on $ 150 billion in Chinese imports to the United States to punish China for what government officials regard as Beijing's predatory industrial policies and abuse of U.S. intellectual property.

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.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Minutes of meetings from the Federal Open Market Committee and speeches by Fed officials suggest that the Federal Reserve has been itching to «normalize» policy for some time now.

But the narrative that the electorate is pushing elected officials towards trade - skeptical policies doesn't actually jive with poll numbers, which show that a majority of Americans think that increased trade is good for the economy.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) officials tell Healthcare IT News that, while we can expect to see some major changes to health policy under President Trump (including rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), health IT will continue to get «plenty of airtime in Congress» and could even become an important jobs priority for the incoming president.

In the letter, Cummings called for all documents and communications related to Flynn's and Kushner's security clearances; Kushner's application; White House officials who have had to resign or were fired; policies related to how the White House handles the suspension of security clearances; and contacts between Yates and White House counsel Donald McGahn about Flynn.

He is likely to toe the central bank's official line on monetary policy, though looking out for any strong comments on the impact the BOJ's policy on bank profits - 0615 GMT.

Last week, the Global Times, a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party's official People's Daily, published an op - ed praising Facebook's decision to temporarily suspend the account of exiled writer Liao Yiwu for violating the sites» policy against nudity.

Officials believe that one reason for the increase in reporting at the academy in upstate New York may have been a change in the reporting policy and relocation of a victim assistance office.

Theoretically, breaching someone's privacy — even that of a quasi-government official — should be something that we do when there is a compelling argument for it, some broader social policy aspect, as there arguably is with the tape recordings of Donald Trump admitting to horrible behavior towards women.

Tape for Priority Mail had traditionally been given out free, even though it was against official policy.

Fed officials are scheduled to convene on Tuesday and Wednesday for a regular policy meeting.

He and Daniel Fried, who was the chief US coordinator for sanctions policy until he retired in late February, lobbied Congress to halt the development of the sanctions - lifting package after government officials began ringing «alarm bells about possible concessions being made» to Russia, Malinowski said.

The official statement conceded that «monetary policy alone can not lead to balanced growth,» an overdue admission on the part of finance ministers that they have been leaning on their central bankers for too long.

On 19 September 2000, the Bank of Canada published details of its plan to adopt a new system of eight «fixed» or pre-specified dates each year for announcing any changes to the official interest rate that it uses to implement monetary policy.

In November 2000, the Bank of Canada introduced a new system of eight «fixed» or pre-specified dates each year for announcing any changes to the official interest rate it uses to implement monetary policy.

I'll go with Jacques - René here: if you don't think the Official Languages Act is good policy, why just not call for its repeal instead of tip - toeing around the issue and making excuses about English Canada's failure to adapt?

Chinese and Canadian officials meeting at a seminar on asset management and economic development in the central and western regions of China, feel that the Chinese government's preferential policies for the introduction of foreign investment in the region, along with an abundance of natural resources and the booming infrastructure development, offer opportunities for economic cooperation between...

In interviews in the days after Morneau's Oct. 24 economic statement, several key cabinet ministers and well - placed government officials all insisted the brakes haven't been applied to a string of ambitious and inherently risky policy unveilings, planned for the coming months and beyond.

These developments carry broad implications for the work of central bankers and other policy officials.

But it let the public know what its officials had at stake in the policies for which they advocated.

Christopher J. Paul: «The Board policy is that the chairman of the Board Jack Bovender is the official spokesperson and so it's really not appropriate for me to comment beyond that unless directed by the Board chairman.»

If Fed officials view it as a ceiling, as their statements sometimes suggest, they'll likely tighten monetary policy once they hit it even if they've been missing 2 percent for years and tightening means slowing job and wage growth that has eluded too many workers in recent recoveries.

With the Ministry of Defense now preparing its five - year procurement plan and continuing discussions with U.S. officials on complementary roles, missions, and capabilities in the alliance, this is a good time for Japan to introduce modest policy steps for developing strike.

But the government doesn't want the story to end that way, so officials are likely looking for a way to secretly change the enforcement policy so that the tariff doesn't apply to iPods.

The term Great Firewall, then, should be seen as encompassing policy areas well beyond the extensive censorship system, to include forced technology transfer, forced partnership with Chinese partners, ever more sophisticated theft of intellectual property, demands that internet data be «secure and controllable,» legislation allowing government officials to demand access to software source code, and denial of access for major internet platform companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

I notice that TAU's two official reasons are: 1) insufficient market for CO2, and 2) lack of a high enough policy - driven carbon price.

There was absolutely no interest in a significant assistance plan for Russia, nor did key officials on Russian policy have any knowledge of economics.

While it's no secret that US officials are interested in closer oversight of cryptocurrency activities - a group of influential senators pushed for this kind of policy shift in late May - the IRS contract is notable given the tax agency's investigation of potential tax avoiders and its ongoing lawsuit against exchange startup Coinbase.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently published a circular (policy letter) announcing the official VA loan limits for 2015.

That's not sound monetary policy - it's a picnic for insiders, bought and paid for through the abuse of public funds by government officials too unprincipled even to recognize the abuse.

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Fed officials will meet on November 1, 2016, for one of their regularly scheduled policy discussions.

The officials led by bank president Mario Draghi decided that «prudence, patience and persistence with regard to monetary policy remained warranted for underlying inflation pressures to continue to build up.»

It did not take long after the passage of Humphrey - Hawkins for wiser Federal Reserve officials, including Paul Volcker (who became Chair in 1979), to conclude that the «dual mandate,» far from defining a new and sustainable approach to monetary policy, was simply a nuisance — something they had to pay lip service to, whilst really concerning themselves with keeping a lid on inflation, so as to undo and avoid repeating the mistakes of the 70s.

TALKING THE TALK Aside from their discussion over the stance of monetary policy, officials likely continued to debate fine - tuning their communications strategy by adopting numerical thresholds for economic variables that would guide the central bank's unconventional stimulus.

In a related statement, Fed officials said: «Given the economic outlook, and recognizing the time it takes for policy actions to affect future economic outcomes, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 1/4 to 1/2 percent.»

Fed signals potential March rate hike In minutes released this week, US Federal Reserve officials signaled the potential for a rate hike at its next policy meeting in March.