«If environmental decisions are fundamentally framed as questions of economic welfare,» Sagoff concludes, «public officials and the public itself will opt nearly every time for whatever policy
promises more economic growth, more production, and more jobs.»
Not exact matches
The only call to action was for governments to do
more to encourage
economic growth, as finance ministers acknowledged they had fallen behind on their 2014
promise to increase GDP by 2 %.
While Republican leaders and Trump administration officials
promised as recently as three weeks ago that the bill would pay for itself with
economic growth, the analyses have been universal: They have shown that the bill would add roughly $ 1 trillion or
more to the federal deficit over 10 years, even when accounting for the
growth.
In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend
more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a
promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting
economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister
promised Saturday to deliver
economic growth to a country hammered by years of
economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at
more planned austerity measures.
• We
promised to restore Teacher training allowances and we have delivered • We
promised to end dumsor and we have delivered • We
promised to reduced fertilizer prices by 50 % and we have delivered • We
promised to establish a Ministry of Zongo and Inner City Affairs and we have delivered • We
promised to increase and pay peacekeeping allowances increased from $ 31 to $ 35 and we have delivered • We
promised to increase the share of the DACF to persons with disabilities from 2 % to 3 % and we have delivered • We
promised a stimulus package to support local industry and we have delivered • We
promised to implement a National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan and we have delivered • We
promised a
more efficient port system and we have delivered • We
promised to reduce the rapid rate of borrowing and accumulation of the public debt and we have delivered • We
promised to restore
economic growth and we have delivered • We
promised to reduce inflation and we have delivered.
For those of us in the youth and student tourism industry, we see how vital young people are to the tourism sector, and how vital tourism is to young people,» said WYSE Travel Confederation Director General Espen Falkenhaug, «Tourism is one of the world's most
promising drivers of
economic growth, and considering the numbers, youth tourism is even
more so.
At the end of the day, supporting breakthrough technologies holds
more promise for drastically reducing emissions, reducing oil imports, and potentially boosting
economic growth than does just efficiency standards, but the budget debate fails to reflect this reality.
This evaporation of a
promise is compounded in the
more repressive societies and emerging markets because — even where you get rapid
economic growth — it can not absorb the demographic bulge of young people fast enough to deliver rising living standards for enough of them.