Sentences with phrase «reported economic challenges»

• Nine of 10 district officials reported economic challenges were forcing change, while two - thirds reported low student achievement were resulting in change.

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But those landmark reports tended to focus on precise policy challenges, and Dodge says, by comparison, Barton's economic growth mandate is «pretty amorphous stuff.»

As it happens, last month the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development reported that «Canada's key long - term challenge is to boost productivity growth» — so chalk that up as a win for the provocative Rubin as well.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The report was developed over the past year, after the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 revealed that affordability is one of the biggest challenges facing our region's economy.

California Wine Shows Strength in Challenging Economy: The California wine and winegrape sector and allied businesses deliver a total economic contribution of $ 57.6 billion annually to the state's economy and $ 114.1 billion annually to the U.S. economy according to a new report commissioned by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers...

This report highlights the importance of increasing social mobility and how the construction industry can work to promote greater equality of opportunity for all, particularly in a challenging social and economic environment.

New York is not a low - tax state, and its economic success is because of strengths that overcome a challenging tax environment, with recent tax commission reports recommending many of the changes incorporated in the bill.

The 163 page report, which is very detailed on current affairs on the African continent, also mentioned the leader of Togo's main opposition party, the National Alliance for Change (ANC), Mr. Jean - Pierre Fabre, who challenged the incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe 2010 and 2015 but lost as the second most peaceful opposition leader in Africa and the best within the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWA) Sub-region region.

A new report investigates the challenges the UK faces after the economic downturn and explores a range of initiatives across education, business, housing, industry, and innovation that could help kick - start growth.

The report acknowledged that the Conservative and Liberal Democrat government faces «very severe economic and political challenges».

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

Finally, it's notable that among Puerto Rico's many economic challenges are labor and wage laws that, in the words of the Krueger Report, «are disincentives for firms to hire workers and for workers to accept jobs.»

According to a new study by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, reported in Science, they rise to the challenge in the most economic fashion.

However, delaying additional mitigation to 2030 will substantially increase the technological, economic, social and institutional challenges associated with limiting the warming over the 21st century to below 2ºC relative to pre-industrial levels, the report finds.

The report also addresses the field's numerous economic, social and ethical challenges.

Regardless of whether Title I remains in its traditional form or is converted in some part to vouchers, districts will face major challenges allocating resources based on individual student economic status as community eligibility for free lunch eliminates the incentive for individual students to report their poverty status.

You will, I hope, see the results of my road trip fact - finding in future Fordham publications, but for now I can confidently report that, despite economic challenges (which are real), good things are happening in the provinces (i.e. anywhere not on Capitol Hill or Maryland Avenue).

Taking account of economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability, the report's forward - looking narrative describes how major challenges and change factors in the modern world will affect — and can be affected by — water resources, services and related benefits.

The 1986 Carnegie Report made a case for the idea that the economic challenges the nation would face in the years ahead could not be met unless students were held to much higher academic standards and the nation did what would be necessary to fully professionalize its teaching force, much as medicine had done a century earlier.

According to a new report, most teachers in urban, high - poverty schools are remarkably motivated to meet the challenges at hand, but they need and want schoolwide, principal - led supports in order to succeed in the face of the uncertainties that economic privation brings.

In the following lesson, students review up to six resources to investigate solutions to economic challenges facing Haitians using reporting by Jamie McGee and Larry McCormack.

«We are pleased to report record revenue results for the third quarter and we have entered the fourth quarter with strong momentum despite the challenging general economic conditions.

Author, Aspatore Special Report: Understanding the Current Student Loan Landscape: Analyzing the Student Loan Interest Rate Bill and Overcoming Economic Challenges, April 1, 2014

«Creative Time Global Residency: Reports From the Field», New York, NY, December 3, 2013 «Urban Imprint: The Art and Science Shaping Our Cities,» hosted by The University of Chicago, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York, NY, November 14, 2013 «Cultural Investment: Creating a Civic Identity Through the Arts,» CityLab: Urban Solutions for Global Challenges, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, October 7, 2013 «One State Together in the Arts» One State Illinois Conference, Quad Cities, IL, June 24, 2013 «Theaster Gates in Conversation with Romi Crawford,» Black Collectivities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 4, 2013 «LINC Legacy and Advancements in the Field,» hosted by the Ford Foundation, May 2013 «Constituency Engagement — Culture - Initiated Redevelopment: Strategies in Innovative Constituent Engagement,» Association of Black Foundation Executives, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, April 6, 2013 «Creating Heat - The Artist as Catalyst: Theaster Gates at TEDxUNC,» University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, February 9, 2013 «Building CapaCity Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2013 «Creative Resilience Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 «Transformative Art: Theaster Gates,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2013

Particularly important is the report on the challenge of building constituencies for tigers in poor communities where economic development is the dominant concern:

The challenge arises most sharply when the science reported in high - quality journals is directly applicable to current and ongoing social, economic, and political issues.

Overall, this year's report findings illustrate growing corporate interest in incentive payments to protect forests as a climate response, despite political and economic challenges to carbon price mechanisms more broadly.

This activity report is based on the Asia and the Pacific megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, which are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges.

While the region's countries are driving the global green growth agenda, the report shows that the challenge of eco-efficient economic growth and inclusive resource use is critical and still growing and that fundamental changes are needed.

The World Economic Forum released their report Climate Adaptation: Seizing the Challenge, at Davos last week.

The report also analyses important gaps in the available data and important challenges for future research on the socio - economic aspects of urban agriculture.

A 2011 report by the American Physical Society identified key physical and economic challenges.

The Illinois State Bar Association Report contains a well - documented description of what it calls «The Big Picture» affecting the profession, including: the economic challenges plaguing lawyers, the lack of training for law students in the skills needed to succeed in the current climate, the reluctance of the population to use traditional legal services, and the technological changes redefining the way people work and enabling new actors to reshape the legal marketplace.

Ashurst's 2015 - 16 results are the worst of any of the top 50 firms to have reported so far this year, though many have felt the impact of the more challenging economic conditions compared with 2014 - 15.

Several publications issued in advance of the 2015 World Economic Forum looked at the challenge, including the Forum's 2015 Global Risks report, which includes a brief section under «artificial intelligence — rise of the machines» (page 40).

A new report released this week by the Council for a Strong America, underscores the impact of parenting and the importance of voluntary home visiting in contributing to the success of families facing economic and social challenges.

The Native Title Report sets out challenges for governments in progressing the individual leasing proposal, and in promoting economic development for Indigenous peoples.

Voices» 2010 KIDS COUNT Report Challenging Poverty: Supporting Families in Difficult Times highlights indicators of child poverty and family economic hardship in the state of Vermont to provide a context for the Vermont Child Poverty Council's recommendations to reduce the number of children living in poverty by 50 percent.

For me as Social Justice Commissioner, specifically charged by statute to report on the effect of the Native Title Act upon the human rights of Indigenous Australians, the challenge is to develop a framework that recognises the distinctiveness of Indigenous identity as it is shaped by our adherence to traditional laws and customs, while at the same time seeking to maximise the capacity of native title to contribute to the economic and social development of traditional owner groups and the communities they live in.

However, as this report outlines, emerging and established ethnic communities in Australia still experience significant challenges in relation to their social and economic participation, safety and health and wellbeing.

Several reports have highlighted the inadequacies of the UK's care system and the high costs associated with implementing new services6 as well as the increasing costs that are associated with cycling placements or returns to care.7 Additionally, existing analyses have emphasised the challenges in conducting economic evaluations of interventions aimed at improving outcomes for maltreated children, which include the need for a long - term perspective, accounting for the context - specific nature of interventions, 8 and overcoming obstacles of cross-comparison due to variations in methods, samples etc..9

The economic landscape may or may not change for the next generation, but they will likely tackle these financial challenges in their own way, the report shows.

«While Blackstone said economic net income from private equity nearly doubled, the firm reported declines in its real estate business, which is its biggest segment, and its credit business, which it said was hampered by a challenging market in the fourth quarter.

Economic challenges globally, namely in parts of Europe, China, Russia and Brazil, are subduing outbound international travel over the next year and a half, the report says.

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