Sentences with phrase «policy purposes»

The federal government should also consider policies where funds can be distributed relatively quickly and serve a useful public policy purpose beyond stimulus.

Model Breastfeeding Policy The purpose of this protocol is to promote a philosophy and practice of maternal — infant care that advocates breastfeeding.

Since late 2008, the high level of reserve balances has not been actively managed on a day - to - day basis for monetary policy purposes.

Whether such apologies serve a useful policy purpose in the period in which they are made is a topic for another time.

What is the function or policy purpose served by the requirement, and how can the same function be performed electronically?

I think the point of the red team is to articulate skepticism for federal policy purposes.

As a minimum, however, the effects of changes in interest rates should be removed when trying to assess underlying inflation for policy purposes.

That trend, rather than the published (or «headline») rate which can be affected by «special» factors, is what matters for monetary policy purposes.

This latest effort by Senate Democrats to hit the reverse button and go back to the investment - killing Title II scheme via a Congressional Review Act (CRA) vote serves zero legitimate policy purpose.

He writes, «What makes the present studies, therefore, so completely different from those of the past is that they are oriented to specific policy purposes; and along with this new dimension, they are fashioned self - consciously, by a new methodology that gives the promise of providing a more reliable foundation for realistic alternatives and choices, if not for exact prediction.»

UKIP was formed around this single policy — of leaving the EU — and will struggle to find policy purpose, post-Brexit.

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With the Fed trying to manipulate the yield curve for its own policy purposes, starving savers of income, the yield curve is not a useful measure.

Thus, for economic policy purposes we ought to take a cost - weighted mean of the plausible scenarios, rather than the cost of the plausibility - weighted scenarios.

This makes the models unsuitable for climate prediction — and for policy purposes generally.»

Whether as part of a historical review, in the context of a specific set of facts, or for forward looking policy purposes, the human strengths of rhetoric and strategic thinking are needed to give the results shape and bring them to life.

The Bank of Canada uses its own internal economic forecasts for monetary policy purposes.

@EddyElfenbein It was a good indicator, but now it is used for policy purposes in Operation Twist, making it useless as an indicator now.

«The political center of this will be about how we make the system more humane and just,» Lippman told Politico, «and at the same time recognize that you do have a very strategically placed and valuable piece of real estate there that could have a multitude of public policy purposes to develop it.»

Some assets, however, may no longer serve a public policy purpose and are of particular interest to, for example, Ontario's large pension plans as good long - term investments.

April 12, 2018 — The C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) called for the Bank of Canada to maintain its target for the overnight rate, the very short - term interest rate it targets for monetary policy purposes, at 1.25 percent at its next announcement on April 18, 2018.

I suspect that such an approach, if taken by the «wrong» people for the «wrong» policy purposes, would be wrong.

The food and beverage industry frequently sponsors research on the health effects of added sugars consumption and has produced reviews for policy purposes.

The then Chancellor, Alistair Darling, had authorised the Bank in January of that year to set up an Asset Purchase Facility (APF) which would provide a framework for the MPC to use asset purchases for monetary policy purposes should that prove necessary.

A better takeaway message might be, «Never rely on the conclusions of this NRC report for any policy purpose.»

When it suits its policy purposes, Planning and Evaluation Service has publicized evaluation results early - before the actual reports have even been made public.

These «pull - push» incentives are embedded in the patterns of pension wealth accumulation over teachers» careers, patterns that feature dramatic peaks, cliffs, and valleys that can greatly distort work decisions for no compelling public - policy purpose.

It is not as if the Taylor Rule uses any asset variables for policy purposes (though a better model might do so).

There are theoretically more complex strategies and products on both sides of this debate, but both practically and for policy purposes, an empirical investigation into the basic choices is an excellent starting point for discussion.

Scientific hypotheses and data that have never been rigorously tested are not fit to be used for public policy purposes, and particularly for those involving multi-trillion expenditures per year.