Sentences with phrase «state sector reforms»

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The state government has invited the public to have a say on red tape reform through its #ShredTheRed campaign, while highlighting a number of efficiency improvements in the transport sector.

Mexico's energy reforms, which are opening the sector to private companies, present great opportunities for investors from the United States and Canada, according to Coldwell.

Their struggle to obtain entry for employment epitomizes how stalled immigration reforms in the United States, along with several other factors, may be galvanizing Vancouver's tech sector into becoming Silicon Valley North.

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

It might be in principle possible to pull this off if Beijing is able to transfer 2 - 4 % of GDP from the state or elite sector to the household sector by reforming the hukou system, land reform, privatizations, and other transfers, but of course we shouldn't assume that this level of household income growth will be easy to maintain once investment growth, and with it GDP growth, drops sharply.

This implies a slowdown in reforms that increase the private sector's productivity and economic share, together with a greater economic role for state - owned enterprises (and for state - owned banks in the allocation of credit and savings), as well as resource nationalism, trade protectionism, import - substitution industrialisation policies, and imposition of capital controls.

With the arrival in Canada this week of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to discuss greater engagement with Prime Minister Trudeau, we felt that our readers might be interested in learning more about these sectors as well as appreciate a backgrounder on state owned enterprises and the most current reforms that are underway.»

Unless China is able, very improbably as I have argued, to reform the financial sector deeply enough and quickly enough, the cost of a more competitive (i.e. more highly subsidized) export sector is ultimately a rise in the debt burden, unless of course Beijing is willing to tolerate higher unemployment or to implement greater wealth transfers from the state to the household sector.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 — The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) is pleased to announce the launch of a new «Contemporary China» research report series that explores the emergence and evolution of key sectors in China, including financial technology, health care and state - owned enterprise reform.

The Chinese government has pledged to overhaul the state - owned enterprise (SOE) sector, and SOEs that remain standing in the wake of these reforms will be leaner, more technologically advanced and financially sound entities.

Progress in some sectors, such as reforming state - owned companies, has proved slow.

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

As Lagos State Attorney - General, he led the reform of the administration of justice which has made the state a beacon for other states to follow in terms of justice sector reforms and was part of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's first class cabinet that included Yemi Cardoso, Leke Pitan, Dele Alake, Professor Idowu Sobowale, Muiz Banire and Olawale State Attorney - General, he led the reform of the administration of justice which has made the state a beacon for other states to follow in terms of justice sector reforms and was part of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's first class cabinet that included Yemi Cardoso, Leke Pitan, Dele Alake, Professor Idowu Sobowale, Muiz Banire and Olawale state a beacon for other states to follow in terms of justice sector reforms and was part of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's first class cabinet that included Yemi Cardoso, Leke Pitan, Dele Alake, Professor Idowu Sobowale, Muiz Banire and Olawale Edun.

Reasoning that the Council on Health meeting would give room to review the health sector reform and formulate policies for consolidation of health gains and development, the Governor stated that the law on confidential Enquiry into maternal Death was already on ground likewise the Primary Healthcare Development Medical Sciences, among others.

Speaking on the summit, the Vice President said Lagos State had a general reputation for trailblazing reforms in the justice sector and in many other sectors in Nigeria and beyond, adding that the summit, which is aimed at further initiating reforms in conformity with modern trends, was another testament of the fact that the reputation of the State was being taken seriously by the current administration ably led by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

States that have implemented public sector labor reforms have witnessed plummeting union membership rates.

«Kachikwu is focused on delivering on the reforms currently being implemented in the petroleum sector under the leadership of President Buhari and Acting President Osinbajo in line with his duties as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Chair of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

He further indicated that the aim of his government is to create a state machinery that can manage efficiently its fiscal and monetary responsibilities, that can reform its tax administration to ensure that all private sector operators discharge their full tax obligations to enhance domestic resource mobilization, and that can promote the rule of law.

Governor Ambode, who disclosed this while commissioning the upgraded and redesigned Land Registry of the State, said deliberate massive reforms have been put in place by his administration in the sector to reposition land administration for efficiency and enhance the ease of doing business.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who largely owes his electoral success to public sector unions, has backed them up in opposing the Tier VI reform.

Three years ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo blew a rare opportunity to fundamentally reform one of the most costly provisions of the New York State law regulating public - sector collective bargaining.

He will endeavor to protect the people of the state by reforming unfair market practices in the financial sector while, at the same time, ensuring faith in our own public sector.»

Mr Blair added: «With the best will in the world, change and reform within the public sector is going to be a continual process - you're not going to get to the state where you say, that's it.

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El - Rufai has said that he prefers to lose his re-election bid to dumping his vow to reform the education sector in the sState, Mallam Nasir El - Rufai has said that he prefers to lose his re-election bid to dumping his vow to reform the education sector in the statestate.

EJ McMahon: «Three years ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo blew a rare opportunity to fundamentally reform one of the most costly provisions of the New York State law regulating public - sector collective bargaining.

Ebibai called on the Bayelsa citizenry to support the ongoing public sector reform for the emergence of a virile and efficient public service to drive development in the state.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

Though I recognize that tough choices will need to be made and everyone will have to sacrifice, I agree with Governor Cuomo that we can turn this crisis in to an opportunity to reform our state government, put it on a sound fiscal footing and partner with the private sector to spur economic development and job creation.»

In his opening statement the veteran state lawmaker called for tax and regulatory reform to help the small - business sector and enhanced military, intelligence and diplomatic capabilities to deal with foreign enemies.

The Cabinet Office's prescription for reform is a smaller and better fast - stream; more private sector experience; rotation on the basis of policy delivery, not career development; more expert special advisers (in short, kitchen Cabinets), and Permanent Secretaries chosen by Secretaries of State from a shortlist drawn up independently.

The broad - based tax reductions and reforms included in the budget — the most significant New York has seen in decades — will improve our tax climate relative to other states and promote investment and jobs in key economic sectors throughout the state.

It's the governor and [State Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor] wanting to get more reform people into the public sector.»

He stressed that the three months salaries were approved and released in addition to the retirement benefits of the workers affected by the ongoing implementation of the reforms in the tertiary education sector of the state.

Having undertaken deliberate policy reforms to digitize Ghana, and to formalize the Ghanaian economy, President Akufo - Addo stated that the national identification and address system, the driver's licence and vehicle registration, the paperless operation at the ports, inter-operability of payment system in the financial sector, are all geared towards modernizing the economy.

«The private sector is generally regarded as the engine of innovation in the United States, but on the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, health care's 2 largest public health insurance programs are playing a much larger role in innovation in payment and delivery reform and reshaping the delivery of care for the future.»

Coalition members will work with the United States Government as well as their international colleagues to encourage other voices from industry, donor communities, and the public sector to call on IARC to reform the Monographs Program.

Public sector unions can breathe a sigh of relief after last month's state Supreme Court ruling: an Illinois pension reform law that would have cut benefits for existing workers was declared unconstitutional.

Prior to joining UNESCO, Ms. Müller - Marin worked for the Pan American Health Organization, UNDP, the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, the Organization of American States, Spanish Government Cooperation, the National Center for State Courts and USAID - funded programs in public sector reform.

Since systemic reform requires big changes in philosophy and policy, these three pieces were particularly welcome: David Osborne applied his steer / row framework to teacher empowerment in charters, Politico showed what D.C.'s robust charter sector is accomplishing, and Fordham offered a terrific taxonomy of state - level school governance.

program thus explicitly recognizes that superintendents, state education policymakers, nonprofit advocates of school reform, and even private investors are all involved in enhancing education — and that the leaders in each sector need to master multiple skills and disciplines, not just education content.

Milton Freidman's approach, vouchers, preceded charter schools and were seen as a more immediate and dangerous threat since vouchers potentially mobilized the entire private / religious school sector in the service of education reform in an entire state.

This is a great example of why I now believe that state - level reform needs to be generated and led by the nonprofit sector.

After all, the concerns that handed former governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar's first major defeat — the slew of propositions that would have addressed pension reform, budget reform, teacher tenure rules and other issues that would have kept our state on an even economic keel — were thrown asunder by the public sector unions who now OWN this state.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

Many sectors — governors and mayors of different political parties, state legislatures, businesses, and educators and their unions — are calling for meaningful reforms in the way we evaluate and support our teachers.

In 2010, State Attorney General Tom Corbett was elected as governor, his political network heavily populated by advocates for private - sector education reform.

Committee lawmakers also signed off on a major charter reform bill, House Bill 779, that, among its provisions, gives charter operators the power to expand enrollment by up to 30 percent without requiring the approval of the state's charter office and the State Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter sestate's charter office and the State Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter seState Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter sestate's booming charter sector.

Add to this the federal government's stated interest in creating more state - based retirement plans for the private sector and various other reforms coming down the pike, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) liquidity and money market fund reforms and key Affordable Care Act (ACA) deadlines — think Cadillac Tax — and it can make a benefit plan adviser's head spin.

The former head of the southern German state of Baden - Württemberg has cautioned that Germany is pushing energy sector reforms too fast, pointing out that investments in solar and wind power don't match the speed of grid extension and storage capacity.

The authors describe the potential of CCS for achieving deep decarbonization of the U.S. power sector, explain the key components of CCS, and identify and recommend several federal and state legal reforms necessary to drive it forward.