Sentences with phrase «ways of growing our economy»

Two - thirds said Canada should prioritize other ways of growing our economy.

The benefit of having a strong and independent academia is that we get to explore innovative ways of growing our economy while protecting our environment.

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The GDP report is also a way to look at which sectors of the economy are growing and which are declining.

They may confront some difficult choices because their emphasis on the middle class — the focus of virtually every piece of propaganda released by the Trudeau government — may not be the most effective way to «grow» the economy.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

The huge growth in wealth generated by China's explosive progress also presents a risk that the country will go the way of Japan, which has suffered from a 40 - year recession in which the economy has failed to grow even 1 % over the past 20 years, Ramasamy tells boot camp participants.

Despite indicators showing that the economy can in no way be growing at an annual rate of 7 % (for example, in the first seven months of this year, power consumption grew barely 1 % while rail freight fell 10 %), Chinese officials continue to insist, with a straight face, that growth is meeting the 7 % target.

«While we are pleased the industry continues growing at faster rates than other sectors of the economy, we could be growing much faster, creating more new jobs and businesses, if Washington addressed the tax, spending and regulatory uncertainty plaguing the small business community in a meaningful way,» said IFA President & CEO Steve Caldeira.

We believe that one of the ways to grow Canada's economy is to better leverage both diversity in our workplaces and immigration.

This book is a must read for those concerned about how technology is disrupting the way we work and eroding the social safety net, and how policy makers should respond to ensure that the growing number of workers in the «gig» economy earn adequate benefits.

As the process of adjusting to lower inflation proceeds, the economy should be able to grow faster in a sustainable way.

The November 2013 Wells Fargo / Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index survey found investors more confident in the stock market than in other aspects of the economy; still, fewer than four in 10 said the stock market is an excellent or good way for average Americans to grow their assets.

After a series of weak, scandal - ridden minority governments, Modi appears to be on his way to restoring India's credibility as a dynamic, fast - growing emerging economy.

Already at the time of the American Revolution, financial economists were popularizing the contrast that Malthus soon would imitate in his population theory: Debts grow at «geometric» rates, while the economy itself grows only «arithmetically,» in a slower and more linear way.

For a growing number of companies, the challenge is not to find cheaper ways into the US market, but to find alternatives to a sluggish US economy.

The spillover effects of international cooperation and mutual exchange of knowledge will allow the domestic industry to grow and prosper along this way; paving the path for further international integration of the Vietnamese economy.

Saudi Arabia has looked for ways to expand its economy beyond oil, with the Public Investment Fund — which is expected to grow to $ 2 trillion under management after the country's state - owned oil company goes public — serving as a crucial part of that strategy.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

In this period, the economy may grow by quantum leaps, a new mode of production may come into being, or the political regime may change in a way that promotes subsequent economic change.

For some time now environmentalists have been calling attention to the way the growing economy is straining the limits of the environment to supply our needs.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Farm to school month celebrates the growing importance of farm - to - school programs in childhood nutrition, as well as a way to support farming, ranching, and local economies.

And re-election this month grew out of a thirst for a new kind of politics, and a conviction that the old way of running the economy and the country, isn't delivering for more and more people.

The Coalition for a Digital Economy warned that it would make Britain a much less attractive place to start and grow a business, for fear of a Whitehall official one day arriving and saying you had to change the way your business works to provide the data the Home Office wants.

The President noted that when African economies grow and improve, and its youth get educated and are self - confident and full of hope, «the world finds its way to our doors, and the language and history of our countries become attractive to our own and foreign universities.»

«Of course we all want to see living standards improve, but the way to improve living standards is to grow the economy,» Cameron says.

«Governor Andrew Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Councils are paving the way for projects like this that will grow the economy, create jobs, and improve quality of life for New Yorkers.

Hundreds of people from around the country are in Albany this week to talk about ways to grow and improve the nation's so - called «clean economy.»

ES: You know, I think the best way to grow the economy is not increasing the size of government; it's actually cutting government so small businesses are able to thrive.

Given the problems we face, as a party Labour should be exploring ways of helping the economy grow more rapidly and make the UK a more attractive place for business to flourish.

«Investing in our transportation infrastructure is one of the fastest, most effective ways to grow our economy and create new jobs,» Gillibrand said at the hearing.

Theoretically, they can be an effective way to lower emissions, since they can allow a nation to grow its economy and gradually cut the fraction of carbon intensive emitters (say, by building wind farms instead of new coal plants)

A growing band of experts argue that the only way to save the planet is to reshape our economy so that it's not based on growth.

McKibben: Well, it's not quite the same, because we're not, you know, we [wouldn't] try to, sort of, do a big political campaign around it, but it is the way that this, you know, the things like this locavore movement and local agriculture in general have spread very rapidly from local farmers» market [s] to the fastest growing part of the food economy in this country and have been for a decade now, they're just booming everywhere.

Billings, Montana is the largest city in the state and affords residents and visitors with all the accommodations of a big city, but with lower crime rates and a growing economy that is partly due to the high number of tourists passing through on their way to nearby Yellowstone.

«The amount of entries in our first - ever Splash Into More Cash Giveaway clearly shows me that so many retailers and grooming shops are thirsty to find new ways to improve and grow their business, especially in today's tough economy,» says Dan Barton, founder and president of Splash and Dash for Dogs.

Before the tourism boom, cattle ranching was the heart of the local economy, practically the only way that locals could earn a living here with the land, since no one had found a way to grow crops at competitive rates.

«With one of the biggest clusters of games companies in the UK, our local area is well placed to lead the way in growing this vital sector for our economy.»

Choosing sustainability is about our future, our earth, benefiting local business, being aware of social issues that need attention, growing our economy and society in a new dynamic way, and to replenish our environment.

The limited resources and frangible ecosystem services of Earth can not sustain much longer the way the global political economy is currently grown without regard to biophysical limits to its seemingly endless growth.

Would you agree that if the leaders of our culture choose to keep growing the global economy in the business - as - usual way they are doing now, then the future of life as we know it could be put at risk?

It will take looking at the opportunities of how these economies can grow in green ways, it will take us all truly working together to figure it out.

Our global economy has grown the way it has because of the enormous EROI of fossil fuels.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

The capitalist economy, the way of the world, along with an unchecked, growing human population, demands growth in the economy, but it can not continue.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

As China deals with a slowing economy and India tries to keep up with the demands of a fast - growing and increasingly affluent population, the only way to reconcile energy demands with public outcry over emissions and pollution is by finding cost - effective ways of integrating low - emissions coal technology into their power infrastructure.

As climate change makes the desert nation hotter and drier, and a growing economy uses more water, the United Arab Emirates is giving $ 5m to researchers finding ways to wring more moisture out of clouds

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The move is framed as a way of attacking climate change, reducing U.S. dependency on foreign oil and growing the economy through cleaner energy jobs.