In the U.S. more
recent policy driven examples include Paul Volcker's decision in 1980 to force the U.S. into a painful recession by elevating U.S. interest rates above 20 %.
Not exact matches
«Today's rating actions are primarily
driven by our assessment that the
policy initiatives that have been taken by European
policy makers in
recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic stresses in the euro zone,» S. &.
Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new
policy paradigms, I believe that
recent events will force us to develop new approaches to thinking about economic fluctuations and inflation which will, in turn,
drive major changes in thinking about fiscal and monetary
policy.
The day's trading was
driven by uncertainty over how to interpret the Federal Reserve's
recent policy statement as well as worries over talks in Beijing designed to avert a full - blown U.S. - China trade war.
Many fail to realise that the UK has
driven multiple progressive
policies aimed at improving the health of the population, whether plain packaging for cigarettes, minimum pricing units for alcohol, or the most
recent sugar tax.
Public anger over cuts to tax credits, disability benefits, and changes to national insurance contributions for self - employed workers have
driven the most significant government welfare
policy U-turns in
recent years.
One possible downside, says CSR Director Richard Nakamura in a
recent interview with the American Society for Cell Biology, is that the
policy could
drive up the number of applications and lower success rates further.
Acknowledging this influence and the lack of strong evidence supporting links between teacher effectiveness and traditional metrics that have
driven teacher retention and compensation
policies for decades,
recent policy conversations have focused on new ways of measuring and rewarding effectiveness.
More
recent trends in philanthropic investment rely more on a change - oriented and data -
driven approach, with increased focus on disrupting traditional institutions and structures and research and advocacy efforts to create
policy environments supportive of reform.
In matters of K — 12 education
policy, state boards of education have traditionally been the focal point for policymaking, but
recent decades have more often found governors and legislators
driving reforms that state boards and state superintendents would not likely have undertaken on their own — and sometimes superseding those boards and superintendents in direct control.
Our team at DreamBox is inspired not only by this new recognition from Tech & Learning, but also by the
recent analysis conducted by the Center for Education
Policy Research at Harvard University that suggests DreamBox
drives compelling achievement gains in elementary math.
Michelle Rhee's most
recent lie is that teachers unions are «
driving «education
policy» and have done so for the last thirty years.
Her
recent experience includes helping to develop initiatives to improve secondary school literacy, navigating
policy issues affecting students in pre-k through college for higher education officials and ensuring that instructional practice in education is
driven by high quality research.
If the federal government was the primary driver of education
policy in the early 2000s, states reemerged as a dominant player in
recent years leading up to the enactment of ESSA,
driving the structure of the post-NCLB iteration of standards - based reform.
The lead author of one of the studies referenced in Elisabeth Rosenthal's
recent article says in a
policy brief that ``... switching from gasoline to corn ethanol doubles greenhouse gas emissions for every mile
driven.»
RPS
policies apply to 55 percent of total U.S. retail electricity sales (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2016) and are largely responsible for
driving recent investment in renewable energy generation in New England, New York, the Mid-Atlantic, the Upper Midwest, and along the West Coast.
Only with the
recent political collapse of this
policy driven by global stabilization are a whole host of other ideas and strategies emerging.
This momentous switch from coal to lower - CO2 gas as a source of energy has done far more to
drive down carbon dioxide emissions than any
recent government climate
policy,» he writes.
In short, Climate Change Reconsidered is a thoughtful, thought - provoking, cool - headed antidote to the alarmism that has been
driving far too many
policies, laws, regulations and other decisions all over the world in
recent years.
For example, a
recent nationally representative study [18] found that the degree of perceived scientific agreement influences key beliefs about global warming, which in turn,
drive public support for climate change
policies.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has directed his department to conduct a wide - ranging study of the U.S. electric grid, with a particular emphasis on
recent coal and nuclear plant closures and whether environmental
policies may be
driving them.
When the
policy comes up for renewal, you would be able to negotiate better insurance rates with the insurance company by pointing out the
recent driving record.