Sentences with phrase «several global crises»

Likewise, the increase can be seen as an acknowledgment among investors that corporations are failing to address the several global crises that threaten the fabric of society as we have experienced it thus far.

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Sales had been sliding for several years before plunging off a precipice as the financial crisis deepened into a global recession in 2009.

The Caribbean economy has been in a slump for several years, affected by the global financial crisis, which caused a slowdown in tourist visits to regions like the Cayman Islands, Barbados and the Bahamas.

However, in the years since the global financial crisis the idea gained prominence, and several central banks decided to take the plunge after 2014 in an attempt to boost weak economic growth by creating inflation.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

Thus, until the advent of the global financial crisis, mainstream authors paid little attention to the fact that wage growth had lagged behind the sum of productivity growth and inflation, in most countries and for several decades, and that as a result wage shares had fallen.

Over the next century and a half the company underwent numerous changes and engaged in several alliances and partnerships While the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers did not cause the Great Recession or even the subprime mortgage crisis, its downfall triggered a massive selloff in the global markets.

A graduate of Thunderbird, Tom's accomplishments include managing a diverse portfolio of investments through the financial crisis, making investments in several global payments companies that led to acquisitions, and building new business units in Mexico City, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.

In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, several developments suggest that market - makers are changing their business models.

Over the last several weeks, it has become increasingly evident that many of the world's central banks are looking to wind down the extraordinary monetary stimulus that has supported asset prices since the global financial crisis.

The global financial crisis and several factors peculiar to Georgia have affected foreign direct investment inflows, but investors willing to deal with tensions and risks will find opportunities.

Existing prediction systems failed to forecast the global crash of 2008, which led to several governments bailing out their banks and European nations, such as Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain, being plunged into a sovereign debt crisis.

Professor Garnaut told a conference of agricultural and resource economists in Cairns that the crisis for markets will not change the extent of global warming the world faces, but will delay its onset by several years.

Florida, USA About Blog Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist and networker among innovative Christian leaders.He has written dozen - plus books & assisted in the development of several new churches.His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including the gospel and global crises; theology & postmodernity; liturgy, preaching & spiritual formation; evangelism & inter-religious dialogue; faith & social justice.

William Bayers, company general counsel said today that «The global financial crisis over the past several years has negatively affected» Houghton Mifflin's financial performance, in a business that «depends largely on state and local funding» for the schoolbook market.»

In 2008, I was laid off along with several hundred colleagues in one day during the global financial crisis.

With 15 years of history, bond ETFs have weathered the global financial crisis, quantitative easing and several rounds of interest rate hikes.

A review of the period that began with the global financial crisis and the several years that followed shows the RAFI high - yield index produced approximately 7.8 % in value - add relative to the Merrill Lynch index between June 2007 and November 2008 (the peak of the OAS spike), and only gave back 6.6 % in the form of underperformance through April 2011, when OAS spreads next bottomed.

At the Metro Pictures show Mr. Julien will introduce a multichannel feature film tracing the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis among a cast of characters that includes a Philippine maid working in Dubai, an artist who has lost his home to bank foreclosure in Iceland, a gallery owner and collector in London, a journalist, several hedge fund managers and an auctioneer.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

We have loosely grouped the global warming views of several prominent climate researchers along a scale ranging from those who are convinced global warming is a man - made crisis («1») to those who believe that global warming can be entirely explained by natural variability («5»).

Several peer - reviewed studies published during recent weeks reinforced the lack of a global warming crisis.

Global TV News published a summary of opinions by several commentators on how the Government of Ontario might deal with the crisis in electricity bills, which is causing unprecedented energy poverty.

In this series we're trying to investigate the role of climate change as one several drivers of the global extinction crisis.

The fight by conscientious scientists to elevate the growing crisis of global warming into the limelight of concern over the last several years — higher that of the Iraq War and the World Trade Center catastrophe — fits all of those journalistic prerequisites to a tee.

Professor Garnaut told a conference of agricultural and resource economists in Cairns that the crisis for markets will not change the extent of global warming the world faces, but will delay its onset by several years.

As Myron observed, «The vilification of me and several other climate realists during a meeting of tens of thousands of alarmists suggests they are worried that a handful of people speaking the truth, threatens the so - called consensus that global warming is a crisis.»

Tilman also spoke about the global food crisis, offering several «rules of thumb» to ensure that food production meets the needs of future generations.

These institutions are occupying a space created by the retreat of several global bank groups from Africa in the wake of the crisis.

Florida, USA About Blog Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist and networker among innovative Christian leaders.He has written dozen - plus books & assisted in the development of several new churches.His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including the gospel and global crises; theology & postmodernity; liturgy, preaching & spiritual formation; evangelism & inter-religious dialogue; faith & social justice.

Florida, USA About Blog Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist and networker among innovative Christian leaders.He has written dozen - plus books & assisted in the development of several new churches.His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including the gospel and global crises; theology & postmodernity; liturgy, preaching & spiritual formation; evangelism & inter-religious dialogue; faith & social justice.