Sentences with phrase «than economies with»

Service - based economies tend to use less electricity than economies with high levels of industrial activity, as commercial services are generally less energy - intensive compared with manufacturing.

Debt - based economies are more complex and fragile than economies with lower leverage.

(One somewhat whimsical piece of evidence that supports this story is that economies with lots of lawyers grow more slowly than economies with lots of engineers.)

But Premium Economy with Condor was Cheaper than Economy with other options for this flight, so cheap and slightly better is a win for me.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

The pickup in the state's economy revealed in the latest GDP data hasn't flowed through to spending on new cars, with vehicle sales in February 13.7 per cent lower than the same month in 2016.

Retail, not mining, has borne the brunt of the slowdown in Western Australia during the past 12 months, with a study of the state's economy by the investment bank Goldman Sachs revealing a startling decline in retail jobs of more than 20 per cent.

But with the economy growing so much faster than projected, policy makers may well feel compelled to advance their plans to raise interest rates in order to keep up.

The authors said Trudeau's fiscal stimulus would add 0.5 % to economic growth this year and next, allowing the economy to reach its non-inflationary level of potential output faster than if former prime minister Stephen Harper's obsession with a balanced budget had remained Ottawa's priority.

It is one reason, along with a tough economy, the average American car is now more than 9 years old.

Per capita, the 10 countries with the most Inc. 5000 Europe companies — those on this year's list added more than 311,000 jobs to local economies — were all tiny, and Eastern European or Scandinavian.

But with a stronger - than - expected jobs report, the Fed may have to push rates up, instead of waiting to see how the Trump economy will unfold.

There's no longer any question that an education which equips a new graduate with the tools and technologies that it takes to join today's tech - and - data - centric workforce is far more likely to lead to solid earnings and long - term employment in our digital global economy than an expensive, traditional 4 - year program.

It was about a certain economy of space, that it worked big, small, embroidered, that's a lot different than just going with what feels good.

But at that point, the Fed chair Janet Yellen and the other members of the interest rate - setting committee seemed to side with the idea that Trump's policies would do more to help the economy than hurt it.

«That would be the equivalent of adding a country with an output larger than Germany to the global economy,» Lagarde said at a panel in Brussels on Wednesday, according to prepared remarks.

After decades of political unrest, recession and high unemployment, Ireland was the fastest - growing economy in the European Economic Community (the precursor to the EU), with annual growth of more than 5 %.

Sathirathai, the analyst with Credit Suisse, also cautions that political turbulence may have a more potent effect on the economy now than in the past.

I think, rather than threatening to use controversial presidential powers to prevent U.S. companies legally reducing their tax burden as has been mooted recently, Mr Obama must instead bring America's corporate tax rate in line with the rest of the world's developed economies.

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Agriculture, one of the few sectors of the American economy with a trade surplus, has been more supportive of Nafta than other areas, such as manufacturing.

China is the world's second - largest economy, and even with a GDP growth rate of 5 %, the growth rate is more than double that of developed economies,» said Ma.

Wages tend to grow along with the economy, but a number of factors, most notably technological change and globalization, have ensured that for most classes of workers wages have grown slower than productivity gains.

Investors with more than $ 1 million in brokerage accounts are at a bullish peak for 2017, confident in the economy and stock fundamentals.

Just as people can find almost any product online, rather than just settling for what's at the local market, you can use the gig economy to fill your business needs with the perfect talent.

According to The Society for Human Resource Management, the «Silver Tsunami» is well underway.The cohort of workers 45 to 64 is growing faster than any other generation, and the economy is already grappling with two retirements for every new entrant in the workforce.

After all, the outcome of uprisings in MENA could disrupt the global economy more than the conflicts themselves, especially if the victors move to punish foreign companies with close relationships to the local dictators under attack.

The latest sanctions included blacklisting three Chinese companies, Dandong Kehua Economy & Trade Co., Dandong Xianghe Trading Co., and Dandong Hongda Trade Co., which the Treasury Department said had done more than $ 750 million in combined trade with North Korea over almost five years until Aug. 31.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

She was inspired to write the post after a Los Angeles Times article claimed that the majority of people feel that business and first class passengers are treated with more respect than those in economy.

It's pretty clear, he argues that if you can't fairly rapidly achieve mass consumer pricing, your EON (Economy of Now) business on its best days will be a niche nicety for the folks with more money than time or brains and never break out of that box.

Reinhart thinks the United States ultimately won't do anything to damage its own economy, while Mills said that China, with its massive manufacturing employment base, needs America more than American needs them.

In 1980, with the Cuban economy suffering (even more than the Cuban economy normally suffered), Fidel Castro told Cubans if they wanted to leave, they could go — and he would even find boats for them.

Some variations in labour rules aside, the Canadian and U.S. regulatory regimes are actually more closely aligned than they are with other parts of the world, which is good news for major sharing economy companies.

The Conservatives could get away with this as long as the Canadian economy fared better than the rest of the world, with relatively low unemployment, relatively high wages and no sign of the housing market crash that doomsayers» predicted.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

More than just a tourism magnet that attracts 5 million - plus visitors every year, Brazil is South America's largest economy, with gears turning busily in numerous sectors.

The controversial tax reform bill, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, hasn't sat well with more than half of Americans, who say it would help neither their family's financial situation nor the U.S. economy, according to research by Gallup.

One indication: The unemployment numbers for last week were worse than expected, with the economy losing 637,000 jobs.

Investors with more than $ 1 million in a brokerage account they trade remain bullish on US economy, but plan to invest overseas more.

With today's economy and the meteoric rise in the numbers of single parents, many young families have it tougher than their parents did.

With economies of scale the cost of solar power has plunged much faster than many people expected — and some are actually arguing that solar will become cheaper than fossil fuels within the next few years.

Other data last week had painted a somewhat mixed view of the economy at the start of the year, with inflationary pressures easing — possibly pointing to softening activity — but better - than - expected import and export growth.

The Chinese economy has been affected more significantly by developments in Europe than has the US economy, because of the greater importance to China of manufacturing and trade with Europe.

While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.

Policy makers responded with more than a year of restrictive policies that slowed the economy and created a credit crunch that has been particularly severe for medium and small firms and that only recently has led to a moderation of inflation.

In Gallup's tracking poll of Americans» outlook on the economy, there was a massive post-election swing in confidence and optimism between Republicans and Democrats, with the former reporting much more confidence than they had before the election and the latter becoming much less optimistic.

One of the fastest - growing sharing - economy companies, Uber operates in 57 countries, with an estimated value of more than $ 40 billion.

Critics of the tax reform, which also cut corporate tax rates in the U.S., suggested that companies would reward their shareholders rather than investing more money into the American economy with their newly - homebound cash.