Sentences with phrase «than targeted policies»

Another way way to build a constituency is through universal rather than targeted policies.

Not exact matches

The parliamentary press corps» coverage of monetary policy is the weakest it's been since the inflation target debuted more than 20 years ago.

Gordon is curious about an untested policy called «price - level targeting,» which would refocus monetary policy on achieving an absolute increase in prices over time, rather than the current emphasis on the rate of change.

These policies in reality are constantly evolving and trying to hit a moving target, especially at the scale of Facebook with more than 2 billion monthly active users.

The guiding considerations of an effective U.S. strategy for addressing China's inroads in Europe should be to 1) include Europe in its own thinking and considerations about China, 2) avoid adopting contradictory economic policies that target European allies rather than China, 3) work with Europe to shape and advance a proactive, joint transatlantic agenda to address shared concerns about China.

Before discussing the asset price issue, again it is worth repeating that the issue is whether inflation targeting itself led to monetary policy settings being easier than would have been the case in other frameworks.

On the whole, he added, without the Fed policies, the jobless rate would be higher than the current 5 % and the inflation rate would be even further below the Fed's 2 % target.

Specifically, benefits subject to the HP Severance Policy include: (a) separation payments based on a multiplier of salary plus target bonus, or cash amounts payable for the uncompleted portion of employment agreements; (b) any gross - up payments made in connection with severance, retirement or similar payments, including any gross - up payments with respect to excess parachute payments under Section 280G of the Code; (c) the value of any service period credited to a Section 16 officer in excess of the period of service actually provided by such Section 16 officer for purposes of any employee benefit plan; (d) the value of benefits and perquisites that are inconsistent with HP Co.'s practices applicable to one or more groups of HP Co. employees in addition to, or other than, the Section 16 officers («Company Practices»); and (e) the value of any accelerated vesting of any stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock or long - term cash incentives that is inconsistent with Company Practices.

With low money and credit growth persisting, inflation below target and growth slower than in previous years I now expect the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee to keep interest rates unchanged during this year.

As such, heavy - handed policies such as B.C.'s speculation tax target symptoms (high demand for housing) rather than causes (a lagging housing supply), and create unnecessary divisions among Canadians.

After all, the ECB is firmly committed to asset monetisation and negative interest rates based on the belief that these counter-productive policies are working, and the Federal Reserve is seemingly afraid to take even a small step towards «policy normalisation» despite its targets for employment and «inflation» having been reached more than three years ago.

As Chart 2 shows, policy rates in Canada have on average been only 0.25 % higher than the US (using quarterly observations) since the introduction of inflation targeting from the Bank of Canada in 1992.

In my view, careful co-ordination of all policy instruments is more likely to deliver sustained lower inflation at acceptable cost in Australia than is, for example, relying on monetary policy to sustain a low inflation target.

Level targeting corrects for the bygones problem in growth rate targeting, making up for past mistakes rather than embedding those errors in current policy.

At those meetings, the BoJ critically shifted monetary policy to focus on rate targeting, rather than negative rates, and the Fed inched closer to its eventual 2016 hike in December.

A higher inflation target would entail easier policy than is now envisioned.

Policy tightening has mainly targeted the «shadow» financial sector, smaller banks and non-bank lenders, which hold debt more than twice the economy's size.

Fed's Williams says considering raising or replacing 2 % inflation target; reiterates need for fiscal policies; says central banks should target nominal GDP not inflation (More dovish than he has been as he discusses removing the 2 % inflation target, suggesting the Fed is content with overshooting this target to drive growth)

If the NDP government is serious in their promise to meet the target, they will have to rely on more expensive regulatory policies to make up for the less stringent than recommended carbon tax.

Therefore, we will evaluate our market targets thoughtfully to reflect the effects of the most meaningful fiscal policy change in more than 30 years.

But the sense some central banks might be reviewing the effectiveness of their QE programs was given credence by the Bank of Japan's (BOJ's) policy shift in September to target yields rather than bond purchases.

(The Fed in the United States publishes a monetary target, but this appears to be more an on - going obligation under a law passed in 1978 than an integral part of current policy making.)

Because the flexibility in our framework allows it, we reserve the right to choose our policy tactics so that our actions don't significantly worsen financial stability concerns by opting for a policy path that aims to return inflation to target over a longer time frame than normal.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

These zero tolerance policies usually do more damage to the unintended targets than the actual targets.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Identifying targets earlier and speaking to players, agents and clubs as soon as possible, rather than waiting until the last minute, is certainly one way of improving a transfer policy that nearly left the Gunners without a single significant signing before the window closed.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timePolicy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timepolicy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

But time and time again, the suggestion of a bottom - up structure that focuses on specific policies and measures rather than overarching targets has been rejected.

A better tool to target help for poor working people, they say, is the income tax credit that can boost hourly income for workers to more than $ 10 an hour, according to Russell Sykes, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy.

That is not so much because the detail of these policies is awry (although the tax threshold is badly targeted, and the pupil premium is smaller than the pro-poor funding which Labour introduced).

«Members who have high - profile elections coming up or just are really out front on a particular issue are now feeling like they may be targets,» said Kristin Nicholson, a veteran Democratic chief of staff who last month organized a letter signed by more than 1,500 former aides urging an overhaul of Congress» harassment policies.

She touted a history of fighting discrimination, harassment and injustice and vowed to continue lawsuits that Schneiderman filed, including more than 100 targeting Trump administration's policies.

Of course by - elections are wholly different from general elections, but the result for UKIP in Rochester, 271st in their list of target seats, hardly suggests that the Farage phenomenon, based largely on sentiment rather than policy, has lost momentum.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

«You always hear a lot of hype about the timetable of EPA regulations, and we think that the timetable is already generous in that compliance is, with the first target in 2020, still more than five years away,» said David Doniger, policy director for NRDC's climate and clean air program.

«When trying to impose any sort of change, it is important to try and empathize with our audience and to work with, rather than against, the targets of that policy.»

An innovative new study takes a network theory approach to targeted treatment in rural Africa, and finds that a simple algorithm may be more effective than current policies, as well as easier to deploy, when it comes to preventing disease spread — by finding those with «most connections to sick people».

This large uncertainty makes it difficult for a cautious policy maker to avoid either: (1) allowing warming to exceed the agreed target; or (2) cutting global emissions more than is required to satisfy the agreed target, and their associated societal costs.

I worked hard to pick options under $ 300, from retailers like Nordstrom, Target + more because nothing is more important when gifting than shopping at places with great prices + a great return policy just in case you or the recipient wants to return it: p

First, to achieve a targeted budget reduction, school districts need to lay off a greater number of junior teachers than senior teachers (as junior teachers have lower salaries), meaning that a seniority - based layoff policy will cause class sizes to rise more than they would under an alternate arrangement.

The general premise of Please Stop Helping Us is that «liberal» social policies specifically targeting African Americans have done more harm than good.

The demographics of my survey respondents were relatively representative of all state education policy makers when it came to race / ethnicity, but women and Republicans were slightly more prevalent in my sample than in the target population (see Table 1).

In particular, we wished to explore the general issue of whether professional development, which we view as targeted support for leadership, is more or less important than pressure to increase achievement, which is a major component of state policy.

«There are new policy opportunities in California» that can help English learners, she noted, including the targeted funding under Gov. Jerry Brown's Local Control Funding Formula, the passage of Proposition 58 which allowed students to be taught in languages other than English, and the state's new English Learner Roadmap.

The policy should state that staffing allocations will target «optimum» rather than maximum class sizes.

The charter school's cost per student would average $ 8,636 over the five - year projection, which is more than the district's charter policy target, staff acknowledged.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

NUT Cymru policy officer Owen Hathway said: «It is far more important to look at how we support teachers and pupils in their workload pressures, professional development and with the right funding and resources rather than chasing targets which mean very little to individual pupils.»

Early on in the ebook revolution, Amazon enacted a policy charging authors a small fee for every ebook sold and downloaded that had a file size larger than 1 MB — mainly targeting graphic - heavy ebooks such as graphic novels and children's books.