Sentences with phrase «policy tools»

On the other hand, raising reimbursement for the screening tests themselves may be a less effective policy tool for increasing use of recommended screenings.

The government should use other policy tools to support actual Canadian artists and a thriving musical and cultural scene.

To recruit, support and retain excellent principals, states need to work with local school districts to effectively use policy tools available to them.

There has been a significant debate on whether income management is an effective policy tool for supporting the welfare of disadvantaged individuals and families, and in particular, Indigenous individuals and families.

Now they think that their new policy tools will enable them to control the bond market.

Other efforts are more promising, including a growing national focus on feed - in tariffs as a key policy tool for promoting renewable energy.

What is the most important policy tool for fighting climate change?

As such, they may be overlooked as useful policy tools despite their relatively low cost.

And if we should, then what policy tools should we use?

Not only did the federal government have a new source of revenue at their disposal, it had an extremely powerful policy tool.

He opens by describing and comparing the four main climate policy tools: subsidies, regulations, cap - and - trade, and carbon taxes.

Given this outlook, it may seem like an odd time to be updating our unconventional monetary policy tool kit.

Or if that's not an option legally, they can talk up financial markets, accompanying the talk with whatever policy tools market participants find compelling.

Fortunately history shows us how to do this: through a more diverse and targeted set of policy tools aimed at supporting a robust and aggressive energy innovation system.

But cap and trade is considered a more flexible, lower - cost policy tool to get those cuts.

• Use federal policy tools to attract more private investment in infrastructure projects so that new large - scale improvements can be privately financed and paid for by users.

We need new monetary policy tools precisely because the fiscal authorities can't get their act together, and because existing monetary measures have limited effect.

He was focused on not having a depression on his watch so he pulled out all kinds of never - before - tried policy tools.

Even with no current change in policy, a change in expectations can have a huge effect on markets, particularly when novel policy tools are being used.

And a carbon budget may not be the best public policy tool for addressing climate change.

Yet, as we have explained in many articles on this subject, cost - benefit analysis is a deeply ethically problematic policy tool for climate change.

Her research focuses primarily on environmental issues, with an emphasis on industrial ecology and incentive - based environmental policy tools.

The fourth unconventional monetary policy tool I want to cover is negative interest rates, which is something you have heard a lot more about recently.

At this meeting, unlike at climate change meetings in previous years, there was a new array of policy tools to draw upon.

The aim is to provide governments with knowledge and inspiration to formulate effective policy tools that enable energy efficiency in the sector.

Well, when a government gets a new policy tool, they tend to use it until it stops working or blows something up.

The government uses the overnight interest rate — as part of its monetary policy tool kit — to stabilize employment and inflation.

He said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration had earlier in the year unveiled the country's economic recovery and growth plan which clearly spelt out the adoption of industrial parks and special economic zones as policy tools to generate growth and diversify the Nigerian economy as adopted by developed countries.

Nudges — which are now being tested and implemented by government agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States — diverge from traditional policy tools in that they encourage certain behaviors without restricting an individual's options or exacting financial penalties.

School and district takeovers are on the rise, as are more traditional policy tools that prescribe what educators and district administrators must do in order to improve.

The Committee discussed the range of policy tools available to promote a stronger economic recovery in a context of price stability.

Group Policy tools use Administrative template files to populate policy settings in the user interface.

The major policy tool for rulers to stabilize the economy and save their subjects from debt bondage was to proclaim Clean Slates wiping out the overgrowth of debt in excess of the ability to pay.

She also expressed confidence that the Fed will be well positioned to deal with a future downturn in the economy given the current policy tools including interest rate management, quantitative easing and forward guidance.

While many are skeptical about whether or not this tax was the right policy tool, an influx of foreign investment capital, as seen in the Lower Mainland and other urban centres, does contribute to skyrocketing housing prices.

As the Great Recession set in, the Fed dropped its interest rate target to close to zero, and then was forced to use unconventional monetary policy tools including quantitative easing.

Vicky Redwood, chief U.K. economist at Capital Economics, said the united front revealed in the minutes suggests that Carney has persuaded the committee that forward guidance is a better policy tool than another stimulus.

The hope is to identify underused fiscal policy tools to lighten that burden.

Further, allowing the currency to float frees the Bank of Canada to concentrate our single policy tool on our single target, which is inflation.

Dan, The fiscal stimulus is an exogenous policy tool designed as an alternative to or a substitute for the endogenous adjustment of the market price.

Higher - than - expected inflation is also a potential risk for emerging markets where central banks have less sophisticated policy tools than the Fed for combatting higher inflation.

And, as I have said since the beginning of this move, given that the FOMC has been willing to use crude policy tools like the Fed funds rate to try to reflate areas where credit stress is high, they will overshoot.

The reasons are quite simple: the Common Commercial Policy is an important foreign policy tool and exclusive EU competence.

This is the first in a series of posts on the costs of addressing (or failing to address) global warming, and which policy tools work best: subsidies to other energy sources?

Policy tools improved under Obama went «largely unused,» the report said.