Sentences with phrase «productive economic base»

Not only do they ensure that the materials with which we build our cities will be healthful and beneficial, they eliminate the very concept of waste and provide a clean, productive economic base for healthy urban growth.

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Companies looking to import from Brazil will also find difficulties, as, according to the Economist, the combination of a complex tax code, strict labour laws and economic protectionism, Brazil's manufacturing base is the fourth - least productive amongst OECD countries.

It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».

These were able to withstand the pressures of the world establishment and its neo-liberal policies and ensure a stable economic policy and growth of their productive capacity based on their national self - interest, even if the workers too were suppressed during this process.

Despite delivering forty four consecutive quarters of nominal GDP growth, Labour's embrace of 1980s neo-liberalism guaranteed neither economic stability nor the sound productive base necessary to sustain long - term social investment.

It is obvious that our critical economic challenge is to diversify our economy away from rents from oil, into a productive economy based on manufacturing, transportation, mining, agriculture and construction, exports amongst others.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

On the basis of the definition, the paper argues that basic education develops refugee children's personalities, talents and mental physical abilities and prepares them to be responsible adults who are productive and protect themselves against economic shocks.

In this paper authors Victor Reinoso and Marguerite Roza share how mayors can improve the quality - of - life and the economic base in their municipality by finding and promoting productive school models.

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies.The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields.

It could be that the U.S. economic system has become more productive than it has ever been before in recent decades and that on a going forward basis the long - term return will be 7.0 percent real.

the most truly inconvenient truth is that the world's economic system, which is based on fractional reserve banking (which essentially allows for printing money whenever a government chooses to do so, independent of any real productive value underlying the printed currency), which then requires constant growth to pay the interest on ever increasingly debt on the new «money» that is then used to create loans or government financing of whatever.

Healthy child development is the foundation for human capital and the basis for future community and economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4, 5

Having enforceable native title rights, legal recognition of traditional ownership and productive assets such as land are a necessary but not sufficient basis for economic and social development.