Sentences with phrase «term targeted measures»

The conclusions, backed by all 27 leaders including Ms Merkel, endorsed «short - term targeted measures to boost growth and support job creation» and the need to «balance productive public investment needs with fiscal discipline».

Not exact matches

White announced in a late March speech that «in order to more fully inform the commission's decision on this matter,» she had directed SEC staff to compile a list of all those options, including, she said, «a uniform fiduciary standard for broker - dealers and investment advisors when dealing with retail customers, and other measures that may be more targeted and achievable in the shorter term.»

One way to quantify the country's long - term fiscal situation is by measuring its fiscal gap, or the amount of non-interest deficit reduction needed each year to achieve a given fiscal target.

Our forecast a few months ago for 2010 was that inflation, measured either in headline or underlying terms, would be in line with our 2 — 3 per cent target.

He'd already taken a step in that direction back in June when he announced the last rate cut and first revealed the bank's asset - backed securities purchasing program and Targeted Longer - Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs), but now he's reinforced that message with more measures.

Develop effective measures and meaningful standards, establishing both short - term milestones and long - term targets

The ECB also introduced plans for a series of Targeted Longer - Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) at very low fixed rates as a new measure to help boost bank lending to the non-financial private sector over the next two years, and said it would intensify preparations for the outright purchase of certain asset - backed securities (ABS).

Lastly, the ECB has described the policy measures in its March package as complementary, together helping inflation to rise towards the 2 % target over the medium - term.

We think the ECB will continue to forecast a return of inflation towards its target over the medium term, with 2018 HICP projection close to 1.8 %, once again factoring in the delayed impact of its unconventional policy measures.

In accordance with the terms of the Executive Bonus Plan, each year the Compensation Committee assigns each participant a target award cash bonus opportunity and establishes the financial performance measure or measures and related target levels that must be achieved before an award actually will be paid to the participant for that year.

We all know that Flamini was brought in as a short term measure after we failed to get our targets, Cabaye or Gustavo.

Prof Appleby warned: «While waiting times remain low in historical terms, the rise against key target measures since this time last year shows how difficult it will be for the NHS to meet the prime minister's pledge to keep waiting times low as the spending squeeze begins to bite.»

Have things reached the perverse situation where in order to get elected Labour have to cut public spending for their first term although they want to increase it and the Conservatives have to increase public spending in order to get elected, usually when people vote for a different party it is because they expect something to be different from the way it was, such plans leave it wide open for the Liberal Democrats to come out and propose a series of economy measures and be the one of the 3 parties proposing the lowest levels of public spending and tax cuts targeted at the poor.

According to Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, the party had said from the start that the rate was temporary, because it was a «short - term measure to target poverty and tax credits are the best way of doing that».

Realistic expectations Unlike private organizations that target short - term consumer electricity savings, such as OPOWER, Greenblatt and Wei are using their behavior analogs to determine the full potential rates of adoption for energy saving measures.

Despite the extensive measures that are assumed to be implemented, the results indicate that the industrial sectors will fail to comply with the long - term reduction targets, unless a major breakthrough in new low - carbon process technologies such as CCS materializes between now and 2050.

Until 2015, when Ofsted Data Dashboard closed, Achievement for All collected average point score (APS) data each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target groups.

We'll get on to straight line performance in a moment but the P1's number one target was overall performance — measured most accurately in terms of lap times.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

In our latest white paper, Senior Portfolio Manager Duane McAllister explains how the recent boost in short - term yields not only allows investors to once again earn a reasonable nominal return on their money without needing to take significant duration risk, it also provides an opportunity to earn a positive real return, since core inflation measures remain below the Fed's 2.0 % target.

During the normal and healthy conduct of monetary policy, the measured rate of inflation often deviates from official targets within a range of a percentage point or two because of the challenges of defining, measuring, and hitting a precise inflation target over a short - term period.

It has a good chance of spurring many of the same near - term measures that would be needed to reach even more ambitious long term targets.

In terms of the implications of climate change for soil conservation efforts, a significant realisation from recent scientific efforts is that conservation measures must be targeted at the extreme events more than ever before (Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2003).

They focused on the need for five - year review cycles to be part of a climate accord so countries can regularly measure progress on short - term targets as well as keep oriented towards longer - term transformation of the energy sector.

18 April 2018 — The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group welcomes announcement made by the UK government setting out measures to examine how they plan to raise long - term climate change targets to align with the Paris Agreement.

This system encourages lawyers to work increasingly longer hours in order to meet billable hours targets and to measure their productivity in terms of «hours worked» against their colleagues.

Lawyers love to hate the billable hour — our days and sadly our lives have been measured in terms of our yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily targets.

«It was targeted in terms of tax measures,» says Pamela Cross, a lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP's tax group in Ottawa.

At the closing of the transaction, our role involved introducing the funds flow to acquire the target, which was established inter alia by way of capital measures (for instance, an increase of share capital) at the relevant company level, including, as necessary, negotiation of a full restatement of the constitutive documents with the shareholders of each company to contain the most necessary terms of the transaction.

The query began after WhatsApp added to its terms of service last year that it shares data with Facebook to develop targeted advertising, security measures, and to gather business intelligence.

See: Smart Goal Setting) Measure and communicate your progress during the year in terms of identified targets.

These reports highlight the need for all Australian governments, led by the federal government, to have clearly targeted, long - term plans which identify redressing Indigenous disadvantage as a national priority and which measure progress within an equality framework; to be transparent about the outcomes sought, with adequate performance indicators and benchmarks; and to ensure ongoing and independent monitoring and evaluation of outcomes.

Measures of effect size from pretreatment levels showed that short term psychotherapy improved targeted symptoms (17 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero), general symptoms (15 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero), and social functioning (11 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero).