Sentences with phrase «social sectors by»

The most challenging aspect of poverty's suburbanization is that it has caught social sectors by surprise.

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From my experience in the beauty sector with brands such as Kiehl's, Mally, Evolution of Smooth, Kerastase, and more, I can say that the beauty industry has in fact incorporated social listening as part of its macro playbook by paying attention to user - generated content such as product reviews, unboxing videos, and makeup tutorials.

An architect by training and the author of Design for Good, Cary delivered a presentation on Wednesday at the inaugural Fortune, Time and Wallpaper * Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, making the case that the same principles of design fundamental to the private sector should be applied social sector to address some of the world's most urgent issues.

In fact, broken down by subsector, there are only four social companies in the Internet sector that are valued at more than $ 100 million, according to CB Insights» data.

This inspiring book follows Adam Braun, the founder of Pencils of Promise, and how he turned $ 25 into over 250 schools by combining a for - profit business approach with social sector idealism for an idea known as «For - Purpose.»

In the public sector, accounting methods used by governments in education, health and social services impact on how these services are provided, who receives the services and the costs of these services.

Posted by Nick Falvo under GTA, housing, poverty, privatization, public sector procurement, social policy, Toronto.

Tallahassee, FL, August 10, 2015 — NewSci, LLC, a leading provider of Insight - as - a-Service to the education, healthcare, and social sectors, announced today the successful close of its seed round totaling $ 500,000 led by members of the Florida Angel Nexus in Tallahassee and Orlando.

Dr. Seth shared a recent use case of the V - Survey tool by a social enterprise called Shubham finance that wanted to get consumer feedback on the services that they provide to the un-banked in the housing sector.

The Fintech sector is growing rapidly around the globe, playing a significant role in mobilizing capital and resources to innovative ventures and social enterprises by streamlining the process of how how organizations connect with prospective customers and investors over the internet.

It was informed by a group of 24 Canadian experts, from the private, non-profit and academic sectors (the Canadian «National Advisory Board») and builds on the 2010 report of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

«With low penetration of eCommerce and social media by luxury peers, there is an opportunity to boost direct - to - consumer engagement, particularly as younger consumers spend increasing amounts of time online,» says Louise Singlehurst, who covers the luxury goods and brand sector.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

But the tax evasion practised by fortunate social sectors is not an exclusive phenomenon of Third World countries.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.

From this perspective, the supposed theological poverty of Chilean Pentecostalism is explained by its youth (less than 100 years of existence), its scant institutionalization, and the way it thrives in social sectors with no access to higher education.

Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.

The attrition of the public realm; the remorseless growth of inequality; the social pathologies associated with its growth; the humiliations suffered by those at the bottom of the economic pile; the callous indifference of those at the top; the penetration of state institutions by corporate interests; the decline of public trust; and, not least, the hubristic irresponsibility of a sometimes criminal financial sector — all the stigmata of pre-crisis Britain — loom as large as they did before 2008.

While this specific case was for a private rental housing benefit claim, the bulletin confirms the decision is also relevant to families with social sector tents who stood to be affected by the «bedroom tax», or social sector under - occupancy penalty.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

Its claims are backed up by the Audit Commission's analysis of the social care sector and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills» own work on apprentices.

Mr. Speaker, the 2018 - 2021 Budget is informed by the President's Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies which aims at creating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for the youth.

The programmes will be implemented by the MDAs under the five main sectors namely: Administration; Economic; Social; Infrastructure and Public Safety Ssectors namely: Administration; Economic; Social; Infrastructure and Public Safety SectorsSectors.

Discussions on social media sites indicated a high level of fear that this move by the U.S. may be related to Uganda's emerging oil sector while others have argued the move is a silent repayment for Uganda's troop service in Somalia.

In a letter sent to Armstrong last month by Tony Blair, the Prime Minister says the office should «work in partnership with the sector to make progress in the key areas of public service delivery, philanthropy, volunteering, building strong communities and social enterprise» (R&R, 26 May, p2).

If implemented, from 2013, 670,000 households in the social sector will have their housing benefit cut by an average of # 13 per week - # 670 penalty a year - if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom according to DWP's proposed size criteria.

The NHIS is currently financed by pooled contribution from a Value Added Tax of 2.5 % earmarked National Health Insurance Levy and other sources including social security, contribution from formal sector workers, insurance premium etc..

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

Indeed, analysis by the National Housing Federation indicates the effects will be felt acutely in the social rented as well as the (generally more expensive) private rented sector.

The Secondary school sports must be reinvigorated and sports clubs should spring up in local communities supported by the private sector as part of their corporate social responsibility.

As public sector prisons move towards the thin staffing level model of profit - making institutions, with their high turnover of personnel who are less connected to their occupation, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) warns of a potentially detrimental impact on prison quality.

We, the undersigned organizations representing New York's social services sector, write to express our strong opposition to the partisan Farm Bill, put forth by President Trump and Congressional Republicans, that would end or reduce food assistance for a substantial number of low - income New Yorkers, including children in working families.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

After all, it's women of my generation who have arguably been most hurt by the more destructive Tory policies - from cuts to child tax credits to attacks on social care and public sector jobs.

Social democracy, by contrast, was democratic western Europe's postwar response to communism, with public ownership of the utilities and sectors of manufacturing, the establishment of welfare states, the sustaining of full employment by state economic management and redistributive taxation on an unprecedented scale.

According to him, every sector of the Ghanaian economy, over the last 8 years, has witnessed constant decline, coupled with the collapse of every social intervention programme implemented by the Kufuor...

The sector was not reined in by Sweden's Social Democrats upon their return to government between 1994 and 2006.

He said apart from these social intervention programmes, the NPP administration also transformed the economy «by improving on our currency, the strength of our cedi, the banking system and the private sector making sure that the environment was good for businesses to flourish.»

Borough of Opportunity: Tackling poverty and the widening social divide by giving a «hand up» instead of a «hand out» by transforming our state schools, providing a housing ladder of opportunity with home ownership at its core and regenerating our most deprived areas by using the public sector to pump prime major investment by the private sector.

Established in 1995 by the New Zealand Government to reinforce links between New Zealand and the US, Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellowships in Public Policy provide the opportunity for participants to gain firsthand knowledge of public policy in New Zealand, including economic, social and political reforms and management of the government sector.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

The recently launched Land Degradation Neutrality Fund is the first - of - its - kind investment vehicle dedicated to implementing the SDGs by leveraging public sector funds to raise private sector capital for sustainable land management and landscape restoration activities worldwide that bring multiple environment, economic and social benefits.

Social media is a fast growing sector, led by Facebook.

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While the overall employer contribution rate for public school teachers is higher than for private - sector professionals, the group average may mask differences between teachers who are and are not covered by Social Security.

In making this comparison, we must account for the fact that, while all of the private - sector professionals are covered by Social Security, a number of public school teachers are not.

Thus, as Figure 2 shows, comparing teachers with professionals in private - sector employment, total employer contributions are higher for teachers whether or not they are also covered by Social Security.

Over 6 million public sector workers are not covered by Social Security, including about 1.2 million public school teachers; in 15 states, public sector workers do not pay into or receive benefits from the system.

Now she finds herself working with a task force cochaired by Shahnaz Wazir Ali, special assistant to the prime minister on social sectors, and Sir Michael Barber, former head of the United Kingdom Delivery Unit and current distinguished visiting fellow at the Ed School.