Sentences with phrase «recent economic history»

Professor Woo, President of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.

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The recent hot run for airline stocks has coincided with another period of low oil prices (see chart below) and steady economic growth, leaving some to wonder whether aviation's sad history will repeat itself.
Whatever the administration decides, recent history points toward net negative economic efforts.
«When asked what news they had heard of recent economic developments, more consumers spontaneously mentioned the expected positive impact of new economic policies than ever before recorded in the long history of the surveys.
Unlike past episodes in recent history, the crisis began in the world's most sophisticated financial systems, causing widespread economic devastation.
2016.05.06 RBC provides $ 2 million in support of families and communities impacted by wildfires and economic downturn in Alberta Today, RBC announced a donation of $ 2 million to support families and communities affected by the wildfires and the recent economic downturn in Alberta, as part of its longstanding history of helping Canadians...
But until or if the economic trend flashes a warning sign, there's room for debate about whether the great bull market of recent vintage is history.
It is only in recent years that historians have begun to write social and economic histories; before that histories were primarily records of defeats and victories in battle.
Recent history shows that whenever the leading economic powers are not actively engaged in further efforts to reduce trade barriers, backsliding is inevitable.
First of all it must enable us to understand that Spain's problems are very specific to its recent history and have a lot to do with its economic model.
In all, the WFP used the email to unspool a recent history of the Democratic Party, dating back to the «drift to the right» on economic issues under President Bill Clinton.
Not only history but also political and economic circumstances in recent months, and especially current polls for individual Senate races suggest the Republicans have, according to the main forecasters, at least a two - thirds chance of achieving a Senate majority.
Despite seeing the most fruitful period of economic development in recent history, many residents and areas in the City of Buffalo continue to struggle with poverty.
Economic development in New York state has a recent history of favoring those politically connected to the governor.
In his address, Scott - Childress called the resolution «one of the most important items in our recent history» and linked its passage to the economic growth of the city.
It demonstrates ignorance of economic facts and recent history.
The acquisition is being heralded as one of the largest economic redevelopment projects in recent Dutchess County history.
It is extremely difficult trying to balance a state budget at a time when the country as a whole is going through some of its most difficult economic hurdles in recent history.
The book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, contends that human races are a biological reality and that recent human evolution has led to racial differences in economic and social behavior.
The growth in those causal factors — from a population boom to reduced economic opportunity in the countryside — has driven the greatest migration worldwide in recent history.
There is also a very strong sense of America's drifting towards one of the worst financial breakdowns in recent history, as we know Clinton's repeal of the Glass - Steagall Act was already in place by then, allowing financial deregulations to flourish to the point of a worldwide economic collapse.
Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.
It's true there have been times of great economic hardship during the industry's history, but nothing as widespread as this most recent economic downturn.
The only time in recent history when bond funds went sour was during the 2008 - 2009 economic collapse.
As the year comes to an end we take a look back to review the history of recent mortgage rule changes in Canada since the economic crash.
Credit is playing an increasingly important economic role in Americans» lives these days, and according to a recent study, your credit history can be a major factor in what you pay for home insurance.
An appropriate question to ask before all the media angst and gnashing of teeth is this: Were it any other sovereign State being evaluated, with a similar history of recent financial turmoil, current economic sluggishness and external debt, how should the ratings agencies rate such a State?
But if you scratch the surface recent Argentine history, you'll learn that it's had difficult economic times in recent years.
While celebrating strong economic growth in recent years, Cambodia is a country where much remains buried in history and time.
The American people, several friends have hastened to tell me, have no recent history with, and no stomach for, economic protest movements.
At Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon LLP, another firm with more than 50 years of history, co-managing partner Bruno Floriani says the recent economic downturn has increased demand for regional firms like his, even from international businesses looking to expand in North America.
Brazil has been adversely affected by many «plagues» during its recent history (economic crisis, political instability, corruption scandals).
Canadians from St. Johns to Vancouver of all ages and socio - economic stripes are safer today than they have ever been in recent recorded history.
As the country shakes off the effects of the worst economic recession in recent history, RE / MAX Chairman and Co-Founder Dave Liniger sees good news for homebuyers and sellers in 2012.
«FHA has weathered the storm of the recent economic and housing crisis by taking the most aggressive and sweeping actions in its history to reform risk management, credit policy, lender enforcement, and consumer protections,» says HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.
Looking at a broad swath of history, I see three major forces that can make financial systems safer: people being scared by recent events, solid economic growth and reduced debt in comparison to the value of equity.
«The strength of the market, amid the most significant global recession in recent history, once again underscores its relevance to the nation's economic engine,» says Michael Polzler, executive vice-president, Re / Max Ontario - Atlantic Canada.
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