Sentences with phrase «policy world at large»

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The policy shift at the world's largest software company follows similar moves since October by Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo.

China's consumer inflation remained weak in December, while price declines at the factory gate level continued to deepen, suggesting weakness in the world's second - largest economy but giving policy makers more room to take easing measures.

(Bloomberg)-- Wang Tao, chief China economist at UBS Group AG in Hong Kong, talks about the world's second - largest economy and policies.

In our view, gold is exceptionally cheap at the moment because the radical monetary policies practiced by the world's leading central banks have led to an egregious mispricing of risk by investors at large.

In Japan, the world's third largest economy, Prime Minister Abe, after initiating policies to tackle deflation, has vowed to take a swing at structural reform as well.

Concerns over trade imbalances, alleged trade - rule violations, subsidization and state - owned enterprises, metastasizing industrial policies, discriminatory treatment of non-Chinese companies, and other forms of trade and investment protectionism have preoccupied Washington for a decade — ever since the United States limped out of a debilitating recession to find that China had supplanted it as the world's largest manufacturer and had set its sights on leapfrogging the United States, at all costs, to the technological fore.

The Connected Health Conference is the largest and most diverse gathering of public sector and health and technology industry leaders working at the intersection of innovative product and service development, research, business and policy throughout the world.

Unmanned autonomous vehicles designed to help combat the Zika virus, ethical and safety considerations related to new human gene - editing tools, advances in the fight against cancer and U.S. science policy following the presidential election will be a few of this year's headlines at the world's largest general scientific conference.

These include an endlessly forgiving higher education system; the presence within the U.S. of most of the world's top universities; huge efforts at research and development; a hard - working populace and an adaptable immigration policy; a society that encourages second chances and invites new ideas; and the world's largest and best - functioning free - market economy.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

Jordan Posamentier is the Senior Manager of Policy & Advocacy at Committee for Children, the world's largest provider of research - based educational programs designed to advance social - emotional skills and prevent bullying and sexual abuse.

Please join Cascade Policy Institute for our monthly Policy Picnic on Wednesday, January 24, at noon, celebrating National School Choice Week, the world's largest celebration of educational options for all children.

Settling at the head of a long table ringed by young researchers new to the policy world, Kareiva, chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental organization, cracked open a beer.

Focused programs to empower women in those regions with knowledge and access to birth control could certainly bring growth rates down there, benefiting those societies as well as the world at large, policy experts say.

At the same time, the company, the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world's largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol.

Founded in 1922 by G.J. Mecherle, it's the largest auto insurance company in the world, checking in at No. 43 on the Fortune 500 list with 80 million - plus policies and more than 65,000 employees.