Sentences with phrase «standard economic point»

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Certainly the Japanese, so its all being done so — with the — Donald Trump wanting to turn around the trade deficit, you can't help but say hey maybe they are actually onto something because they have an independent central bank well --(unintelligible) the independent central bank that goes upon its course based on what its seeing here you know based on domestic economic activity, while everybody else is setting it to international standards then tariffs become the — I guess the alternative especially when the feds is raising the interest rates and they're the only central bank really raising interest rates... I know... the bank of England went half a basis point, quarter basis point and they are project to go a quarter basis point tomorrow which we will see.

However, in November 2008 when the global economic crisis led to an unprecedented 1.5 percentage points cut in the base rate, banks such as HBOS, Lloyd's TSB and Abbey all passed on the full 1.5 % cut to borrowers with standard variable rate (SVR) mortgages.

The Migration Advisory Committee was established by the Government to advise on shortage occupations, to which the standard Resident Labour Market Test would not be applied whenever a UK employer wished to bring a worker from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) into the UK under the points - based system.

Among other points, they disagreed on: the NY Safe Act, which Stirpe voted for and DeMarco wanted to scrap; Start - Up NY, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development idea, which Stirpe supported and DeMarco opposed; and the Common Core teaching standards, which DeMarco criticized and Stirpe said needed time to be implemented.

Looking through the rest of the poll, the Conservatives & Theresa May have a lead over Labour & Jeremy Corbyn on almost every economic measure YouGov asked about (36 on cutting the deficit, 32 points on managing the economy, 15 on providing jobs, 11 on keeping prices down, 11 on improving living standards, 6 on getting people on the housing ladder), the only exception was reducing the number of people in poverty, where Corbyn & Labour had a 7 point lead.

When those two factors are taken into account, the positive effect of cognitive skills on annual economic growth becomes somewhat smaller, but is still 0.63 percentage points per half of a standard deviation of test scores.

In particular, our preferred model finds that a ten percentage point increase in private share of schooling enrollment within a nation, over time, is associated with a 7.4 % of a standard deviation increase in the Political Rights Index and an 8 % of a standard deviation increase in the Economic Freedom of the World Index.

Why should I feel better about PARCC and Common Core just because a state bureaucrat or leader of a taxpayer funded school board or school administrator association tells me we have had state mandated standards and testing for a long time when the original set of standards and tests were broken and built from an economic view point, not an educational one.

While a rising elasticity contradicts the standard economic model in which price - sensitivities don't change much over time, Point # 5 provides a reasonable explanation: gasoline prices (and energy prices in general) had fluctuated so wildly for decades, and a sense of entitlement to cheap gasoline had become so ingrained in American society, that it took a long time for households and businesses to internalize the rise in pump prices — to regard it as real.

Today's case in point: a United Nations draft technical standard on «signed digital evidence»: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UNE / CEFACT) Recommendation No. 37, «Signed Digital Evidence Interoperability Recommendation», ECE / TRADE / C / CEFACT / 2010/14.

I point out there that the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (i.e., the two committees that operate under and interpret the standards in the two international covenants, the ICCPR and the ICESCR) clearly identify self - determination as a right held by Indigenous peoples, including those in Australia.