Sentences with phrase «trade system reform»

Can the international trade system reform fossil fuel subsidies to relieve costs, reduce pollution, improve energy security and tackle climate change?

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Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

«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.

He positioned his administration's attempts to «reform international trading systems» as a source of prosperity beyond U.S. borders.

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.

Its aim is to achieve major reform of the international trading system through the introduction of lower trade barriers and revised trade rules.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

Researchers have said that Spain, like California, will need to reform its water rights system if water trades are to increase.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

He assured constituents that comprehensive reform to the tax system, immigration and trade agreements will ultimately be to their benefit.

Alan Johnson leads calls today for reform of the Labour Party, declaring that the system that elected Ed Miliband as party leader was wrong and should be changed to weaken the grip of trade unions.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Combine those issues with rising pressures to boost school funding, reform the criminal justice system, address the minimum wage rate and pay for a new Tappan Zee Bridge - well, it's a recipe made for behind - the - scenes deal - making in a Capitol where trading political chits has become an art.

Those hoping to improve the education system must be honest about the difficult trade - offs inherent in education reform.

Recently, there have been a number of reform proposals from think tanks, trade associations, and others — each articulating a specific set of principles or visions for the structure of the new future housing finance system, and elements of the transition to a future state.

After all, the suspects have been located and caught with an extensive investigation, HM Revenue and Customs, the British tax agency, was able to swiftly locate the discrepancies in tax reportage, and most importantly, Britain has already reformed its carbon trading system by exempting it from the VAT to prevent further abuses.

The Guardian: The existing food system has failed and needs urgent reform, according to a UN expert who argues there should be a greater emphasis on local food production and an overhaul of trade policies that have led to overproduction in rich countries while obliging poor countries — which are often dependent on agriculture — to [continue reading...]

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.

On Tuesday, May 30, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission postponed their second trilogue meeting on the reform of the EU Emission Trading System (ETS).

There's nothing very romantic about EU climate policy — even if some environmental groups trailed the European Parliament's vote on the reform of the emissions trading system (EU ETS) as an occasion for «climate love».

Follow the reform of the EU Emissions Trading System on Twitter: #EUETS #CarbonWelfare and #ScrapETS

Welfare reform passed in the summer of 1996, and the most recent Clean Air Act amendments — including a cap - and - trade system for sulfur - dioxide — passed the Senate in April of 1990.

Other topics covered during the meeting included options to reform the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure strong signals are in place to incentivise energy investment and the need to foster multilateral technology cooperation through initiatives such as Mission Innovation.

The World Energy Outlook suggests some paths to improvement through the diversification of energy sources in power generation, through emissions trading and through reform of transport systems.

But if some offshore drilling and nuclear power entitlements get us comprehensive energy reform, along with a cap and trade system to limit greenhouse gas emissions, I'd argue that it's still worth doing (though I know many who'd argue against it).

The European Union is well aware of the minium price problem and all but certainly will include that in 2020 reforms to the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

The negotiation and conclusion of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada has triggered intense debate among EU lawyers, in particular with regard to the proposed reformed system for investor - State dispute settlement that the agreement contains.

They include: (1) regulatory law and enforcement work, because industries from banking to private equity funds to large oil companies will likely be targets of the new administration, while health insurance companies will be subject to heightened regulation; (2) litigation, because a Democratic administration will probably push back tort reform measures, giving rise to more lawsuits; (3) «green» law, i.e., representing companies that deal in green technology, whose growth will be stimulated by likely tax incentives as well as a cap and trade system; and (4) real estate, because the bailout legislation will most likely require banks availing themselves of the benefits to begin issuing mortgages again.

Another week and still no sign of the big Brexit measures due before the Commons: the Trade Bill; the Taxation (Cross Border Trade) Bill; and less sign still of the promised proposals to reform the immigration system.