Sentences with phrase «which economic goals»

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Unlike CGI's annual meeting, which is angled toward global development, CGI America focuses specifically on job creation and economic growth in the U.S., employing their trademark, goal - oriented approach.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

The threshold, target, and maximum percentage business line goals shown for the named executives listed in the table above were derived using certain assumptions for 2008 with respect to the general economic, interest rate, credit, and regulatory environment in which we operate and certain assumptions as to the outlook for the businesses each of them managed.

From record - breaking stock market returns to falling unemployment, the U.S. has no shortage of positive economic indicators, and the majority of investors say they feel confident about achieving both their short - and long - term goals, according to the latest «Morgan Stanley Investor Pulse Poll,» which surveyed more than 1,200 investors age 25 to 75 with over $ 100,000 in assets.

China has two main goals: 1) to ensure strong domestic economic growth to provide enough jobs for its 1.2 billion population which continuously migrates to urban centers from the countryside, and 2) to be taken seriously by the world.

It is not the material factors of economic production, military might, and technological development, but the underlying ideas, ideals, goals, and norms which are strongly held on a mass basis that determine the course of history.

But this does not justify the shift of power from the political system which can express the concerns of people for their grandchildren and for the nonhuman world to economic institutions for which these considerations are typically felt as interfering with their primary goals.

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

Therefore, if a capitalist economic system meets these goals — and I will argue that some do and some don't — then it meets our goals for an economic system, in which case it makes no sense to complain because it is based on selfishness.

We expect students to have practical goals, which means self - interested ones in economic terms.

So there was a sense of outrage when the Club of Rome produced its report entitled Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972), which gave reasons for supposing that the goal of economic growth in material goods had limits, despite the possibilities of progress of science and technology in the future.

While the power of the IMP (and the World Bank) to impose economic liberalization programmes is limited to only those impecunious states which seek financial relief from it, all the WTO members are committed, by virtue of their membership of the organization, to its goal of a world free of tariff barriers.

Among those nations in which economic and cultural factors did not support the move toward this goal, none has worked as hard as China to achieve this stabilization.

Because the selective nature of television is often overlooked, the diversity of American religious culture is in danger of being narrowed to that particular strand of religious faith which is now being promoted by television largely because of its acceptance and coherence with television's own social and economic goals.

Television has succeeded in narrowing the expression of religious thought to that which is most supportive of its own limited view and economic goals.

«Even though this journey is an official visit which will reinforce the good relations existing between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Holy See, I have not come here primarily to pursue particular political or economic goals, but rather to meet people and to speak about God,» the pope said during a speech at Bellevue Castle.

Champions 12.3, a coalition of 30 CEOs, government ministers, executives of research institutions, farmer organisations and civil society groups, was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos and aims to accelerate progress toward meeting target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which seeks to halve per capita food waste by 2030.

Ribal et al. (2015) describe an optimization model (goal programming), which was used to design meals for school canteens by taking into account nutritional, climate change, and economic aspects.

What is clear is that to address political inequality — which is a precondition to achieving the broader goals raised by the Great Charter Convention — we must restore substantive democratic power over how our political and economic institutions are organised, thereby better enabling individuals to come together to make collective decisions that shape their lives, communities and workplaces.

But this view underplays the way in which this deal represents the culmination of over ten years of hard work and commitment by all the region's elected leaders (and their officers) to collaborate and innovate to deliver economic and social goals in the region.

She said this would help the country to not only provide reliable energy for Ghanaians, but would also help in its goal of becoming a net exporter of energy in the sub-region, under the West Africa Power Pool initiative, which would further sustain Ghana's economic growth.

By laying down his economic goals that would surely carry over into 2012, the governor is perhaps mind full of the coming political calendar, which is very much in flux.

One could write an answer as long as this one analyzing the economic consequences of H1 - B visas alone (there are papers that do), and my goal was to go more in depth on the rural than on the urban side of the equation to which that in depth analysis isn't as relevant.

There will be areas which do affect our economic relations where we and our European friends may have different goals; or where we share the same goals but want to achieve them through different means.

The city's Economic Development Corporation, which is spearheading the rezoning discussion with the support of Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, returned to the community last Thursday with the latest iteration of the proposal that now incorporates more neighborhood streets and a slew of goals meant to «meet Inwood's pressing needs.»

We already have the highest MWBE goal in the nation - 30 % - which is about $ 2 billion in economic opportunity for minority and women - owned businesses across the state.

Driven by a shared goal of creating jobs, increasing funding for schools and lowering property taxes, a broad coalition of business leaders, labor unions, economic development professionals and educators announced the formation of NY Jobs Now in support of Referendum # 1 on ballots in November, which would authorize up to four new casinos in upstate New York.

Researchers from the United States, Spain and Chile took part in the analysis, which has been recommended by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe as an indicator for the U.N.'s sustainable development goals for water cooperation.

Stymied by the slow pace of the negotiations — which they are not even allowed to participate in — these so - called «subnationals» have worked on the sidelines for years, using political will, economic leverage and the celebrity status of prominent politicians to advance their climate goals.

The plan drew criticism from several members of Congress, particularly those representing districts where NASA is a major economic force, and left many experts concerned that exploration would be hamstrung without the kinds of definite goals on which Constellation had been built — notably returning humans to the moon by 2020.

The team's report describes how the science councils were trying to serve a plethora of government ministries in black «homelands», which had no unified vision, no obvious economic or social goals, and no tradition of communicating (This Week, 27 February 1993).

«The Assyrians can be «excused» to some extent for focusing on short - term economic or political goals which increased their risk of being negatively impacted by climate change, given their technological capacity and their level of scientific understanding about how the natural world worked,» adds Selim Adalı.

This Bioenergy Technologies Office helps solve this equation by supporting research on which bioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmental goals.

Our goal is to promote a social, economic, and political climate in which members can provide the citizens of British Columbia with the highest standard of naturopathic health care, while achieving maximum professional satisfaction and fair primary care options.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

Although my overall goal is still the same, I have transformed the way in which I see how social entrepreneurship, behavioral science, and economic interventions play an important role in addressing some of Latin America's most pressing educational challenges.

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

This is not surprising, because a fundamental goal of investment research has been to discover those strategies which maximize personal economic welfare on a risk - adjusted returns basis.

The lawsuit contends that competing stable value funds which were subject to the exact same underlying economic conditions as the MIP and had the same conservative investment goals earned substantially higher returns than the MIP during the relevant time period while at the same time preserving principal, ensuring liquidity, and providing stable returns.

The works have a bit of the up - yours of Dada collage à la Jean Arp but perhaps resonate most with more recent movements like Arte Povera, which among other goals sought to create the social and economic unification of all parts of human existence, attacking the corporatization of culture with an art of unconventional materials and style.

NYSERDA's support for the project is from the Governor's Cleaner, Greener Communities initiative, which encourages communities to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local decision - making and then form partnerships to transform these goals into economic development projects.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) offer a new framework against which your business can align, measure and explain its actions to operate more responsibly and deliver positive social, environmental and economic impacts.

The goal of Copenhagen Consensus is to provide a base of economic evidence on which we can improve our decisions.

Now they're being used by the new IMPACT2C project, which is looking to provide new estimates for the impact and economic cost of climate change in Europe if global warming is limited to the international goal of no more than 2 degrees Celsius, relative to Western European pre-industrial levels.

But as more solar comes on - line, curtailments are likely to increase, which could create an «economic limit to deployment» for solar power in California, as NREL noted in a recent study on the state's 50 percent by 2030 renewable portfolio standard goals.

Speaking to supporters at a rally at the Walliston Basin Petroleum Conference in North Dakota, the billionaire and former reality TV star outlined his plans for America to accomplish «compete energy independence,» which he said would be a «strategic economic and foreign policy goal of the United States» if he were elected president.

Although economic analyses can provide policy - makers with valuable information such as which technologies will achieve ethically determined goals at lowest cost, thereby providing criteria for making remedies cost - effective, there are serious ethical problems with cost - benefit analyses used prescriptively to set emissions reductions targets.

By supporting economic development in a targeted way, our climate protection can help to fight corruption and to build strong institutions, which is the essence of No 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Princeton group's multi-stage formula estimates individual emissions based on lifestyle and income rather than per capita national income — a departure from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which set no specific goals or timetables for emission reductions by developing nations until the developed world had found a model for low - carbon economic growth.

From pursuing aggressive Global clean energy goals to restoring natural areas as a form of economic stimulus, there is no doubt that there is much work to be done which would contribute to economic growth and our mutual well - being.