Sentences with phrase «weak state investment»

In the child care sector, the quality of the learning environment is often poor because of weak state investment and low staff qualifications and work conditions.

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The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.
In the United States, growth is flat due partly to the strong dollar; in the Euro Area, low investment, high unemployment and weak balance sheets weigh on growth; in Japan, both growth and inflation are weaker than expected.
With a weak economy, Russia has little leverage to pressure China to meet its commitments, other than seeking investments from other Asian neighbors; Japan and South Korea, however, are even more reluctant investors than China, given their desire to maintain a united front with the United States on sanctions.
Exports disappointed even after accounting for weaker business and residential investment in the United States, adjustments in the resource sector, and cutbacks in auto production.
Notwithstanding perhaps obvious pressures for the UK to attract foreign investment and reduce strain on UK businesses, the strong focus of the Directive on reporting and cooperation between Member States would be significantly undermined if one of the key players in its implementation were to introduce weaker controls.
In the recent January edition of «On the Markets,» from the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Investment Committee, the accommodative fiscal policy of both the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank will bolster financial markets and support weak and slow - growing economies in Europe and the United States.
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