Sentences with phrase «system reform on»

In this spirit, I would l like to thank the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice for inviting me to write this post, and for its ongoing efforts to keep access to justice and system reform on the agenda across the country.

Not exact matches

Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

Western Australian Treasurer Christian Porter has welcomed an interim report on the carve - up of GST revenue, which has flagged changes to a system Mr Porter says is broken and in need of reform.

«Many other steps could be taken to strengthen our economy over time, such as putting the federal budget on a sustainable path, reforming the tax code, improving our educational system, supporting technological innovation and expanding international trade,» he said.

«Maybe he is getting more mellow,» said Schankerman, who has has spent a lot of time discussing his research on reforms needed in the patent system with Spangenberg.

The state's peak business body has called for reforms to the penalty rates system, which it says is out of date and causes many Western Australian businesses that open on Sundays and public holidays to lose money.

Doug Parker, American Airlines Group CEO, weighs in on Donald Trump's Air Force One tweet, and reforming the air traffic control system.

We rely on the patent system to protect real innovation and this case is one more example of why we feel so strongly Congress should enact meaningful patent reform.»

The reform to the tax system signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 22 will force the British lender to reduce the value of its deferred tax assets, prompting it to take a one - off charge in its results for the 12 months to the end of December.

We have also reformed our unemployment insurance system to reduce the burden on employers and have focused on lowering gross - receipt taxes.

But on the behalf of entrepreneurs, who have so much to gain from intelligent reform of America's broken immigration system, you can understand how they feel.

Now, the 79 - year - old Magna International founder is back in Austria and launching a new political party that aims to dump the euro, reform the country's tax system and cut down on bureaucracy.

THE Prime Minister and the Treasurer have given away more than was desirable in the revised tax reform package negotiated with the Democrats and reform comprised to this extent is only a marginal improvement on the current system.

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.

On Tuesday, the Obama administration unveiled a package of reforms designed to rein in this abuse of the patent system.

The letter urged Klein to replace the Canada Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.»

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

Thus, reforms like stricter regulations on brokers, disclosure of 401 (k) fees, or requiring plan sponsors to offer more lower - cost index funds, would be band - aids; they wouldn't fix this fundamentally broken system.

What Tuesday's hearings on Apple's tax strategy make clear is that the global corporate tax system, especially America's, needs reform, Tyler Mathisen says.

See Debelle G (2013), «The Impact of Payments System and Prudential Reforms on the RBA's Provision of Liquidity», Address to the Australian Financial Markets Association and Reserve Bank of Australia Briefing, Sydney, 16 August.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change the country's voting system before 2019, his government didn't totally walk away from electoral reform.

Most recently, it has focused on health system reform in China.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

However, to sustain the significant adjustment, fiscal consolidation should rely on better targeted and more permanent structural reforms to the pension system, tax exemptions, and subsidies, while protecting public and human capital investment.

Flat tax: A proposal for tax reform that would replace the income tax system with a single - rate (or flat - rate) tax on businesses and individuals, after an exempt amount.

Rather, it is the expansion of trade negotiations from agreements that once focused primarily on tariff reductions to far broader regulatory documents that now mandate domestic legal reforms and establish dispute resolution systems that can be result in huge liability for national governments.

Because time is of the essence, and because during negotiations the central bank was squeezing liquidity [on Greek banks] in order pressurise us, in order to succumb, my constant proposal to the Troika was very simple: let us agree on three or four important reforms that we agree upon, like the tax system, like VAT, and let's implement them immediately.

Bailout inspectors resumed talks in Athens on Wednesday, pressing Athens for further cost - cutting reforms that include an overhaul of the country's pension system.

Additionally, the election coincided with a provincial referendum on electoral reform, in which the proposed change to a BC - STV system of electing representatives was defeated.

The government's latest proposal to reform the country's pension system will be presented to its supporters in the lower house of Congress on April 18, Carlos Marun, president of the pension reform commission in the lower house, said on April 17.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Overall, the reform would shift from a worldwide system to a territorial system, based on where consumption occurs rather than where production takes place; from a system that allows interest deduction to one that largely ignores financial flows; and from a tax on income toward a tax on consumption.

NAHB White Paper on Housing Finance System Reform

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

Mary Miller, the Treasury Department's under secretary for domestic finance, on June 13 called on the Senate to pass NAHB - supported legislation (S. 1217, the Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014) to revamp the nation's housing finance system to ensure that creditworthy borrowers will be able to access home mortgages.

It would mean Greece following through on its market reforms and privatizations + Greece reforming and downsizing its civil service + Greece maintaining a stable government despite public outcry + Greece fixing its tax collection system + the troika being willing to put off some Greece interest payments and then writing off some significant portion of Greece's debt when Greece's government finally consistently reaches a primary surplus.

When the Church (or at least the U.S. bishops conference) pronounces on public policy specifics» welfare reform, medical delivery systems, or armaments strategy, for examples» the Catholic house divides the other way.

In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

So eventually they came up with a reform, with liberal laws based on lay - off and dismissal system was agreed in the first commission of the assembly.

And why on earth oppose access to birth control and reforms in the health care system when those will likely make the biggest difference in actually curbing abortions in this country?

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

So those who have the power to change the system all too often choose not to, trying to hang on to everything instead of promoting peaceful reform that would still leave them well - off and comfortable, all too often forestalling peaceful reform altogether.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

As part of the framework of UN reform, Kofi Annan tasked a «High Level Panel» to reflect on «System - Wide Coherence».

To begin with, when will the party's leaders follow through on their lingering promise to reform our broken immigration system?

I used to go to our state capitol to make speeches on prison reform to the legislators — speeches in which I quoted Scripture to denounce both our corrections system and the legislators who were responsible for it.

Certainly the least likely way to achieve a successful reform of the financial system of the largest organisation in the world, was by a head - on refusal to perform the normal tasks of its head.

This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.

Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change.