Sentences with phrase «which policy makers»

The physical science does not mandate we do this, but climate scientists can serve as informants from which policy makers can act.

Kudos to the (many) scientists who provided the information / analysis on which the policy makers based their decisions.

However, they nonetheless provide insights into people's preferences, fears, and priorities — information on which policy makers, industry leaders, and health - care professionals rely in their decision - making.

If the discipline of economics were still understood as political economy, there would be an academically - educated community to which policy makers could turn for guidance, one which would reflect on the role of the economy in a larger context.

Booms have then turned to busts, which policy makers have responded to with even lower rates....

The biggest driver of economic growth next year will be from household consumption, which policy makers reckon will get a boost from the federal government's tax cuts and its decision to augment monthly child benefits.

Thus, it might have at least a little hope of a broad - based, albeit hardly ideal, appeal to some of the various groups vying for influence over the directions which policy makers choose to take.

Not exact matches

Poloz's press conference followed the release of the central bank's December Financial System Review, which concluded that a record household debt burden makes Canada vulnerable to a housing crash, although policy makers see little reason to think that will happen.

Though Kashkari begins with a broad attack on monetary rules, it quickly devolves into a focused attack on the Taylor Rule which he argues «effectively turn [s] monetary policy over to a computer, rather than continue to let Fed policy makers use their best judgment to consider a wide range of data and economic trends.»

So policy makers focus on «core inflation,» which ignores changes in prices for fruit, vegetables, gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas, mortgage interest, intercity transportation, tobacco products and indirect taxes.

Weighed against unemployment, which has dropped to a 16 - year low at 4.1 percent, that weakness has puzzled economists and made some policy makers declare the Fed should hold off on additional rate increases until prices respond more briskly.

In its latest statement, it said «household vulnerabilities have moved higher,» which is how policy makers describe the troubling nexus between excessive housing prices in many cities and record levels of household debt.

A number of U.S. companies — notably Google, which European policy makers and regulators have gone after with a vengeance — have paid the price for the NSA's overzealousness.

As the economy continues its rocky recovery, policy - makers are quick to point out that core inflation, the key measure upon which the Bank of Canada depends to set monetary policy and stave off destabilizing devaluations of currency, remains in check.

He's endorsed policies like direct drug price negotiation in Medicare (usually a Democratic wish list item that's despised by drug makers) while simultaneously promising to slash other regulations on the biopharma industry; he famously promised «insurance for everybody» yet ostensibly supports benefit cuts and a rollback of the Medicaid expansion, which has covered millions of the poorest Americans.

The auto parts maker said it would pursue «shareholder - friendly» policies under which it will buy back and cancel around 187.5 billion won over three years from 2019.

The Fed reckons U.S. gross domestic product could expand by as much as 2.7 % in 2016, which would be considerably faster than the rate of growth — roughly 2 % — that policy makers think the American economy can handle without stoking inflation.

Nobody wants that, which is why policy - makers continue to encourage people to keep spending.

«I just happen to be an activist and public - policy maker, which you don't see in one person.»

Plus, policy - makers will want to limit any further gains in the Canadian dollar, which is up almost 9 per cent since early June, when the central bank first adopted a tightening bias.

A key question for policy makers is whether there is a level of debt beyond which growth will suffer.

NAFTA is just as insufficient for the American innovation economy as it is for the Canadian, which is why U.S. policy - makers are busy making major amendments to federal copyright law to ensure that the profits generated by its creative content keep flowing.

In addition, improved market transparency and monitoring - for example, via more detailed disclosures of market - maker inventories and risk - taking - could help market participants better understand which market segments or trades are likely to be crowded.12 In addition, policymakers may want to assess how the combined impact of regulations and other policy initiatives affect market - making and overall market robustness.

Policy makers consult both of these factors when determining which products or categories to levy duties upon.

Policy makers also are worried that a decade of ultra-low borrowing costs has made Canadians extra-sensitive to interest - rate increases, which could force the central bank to take a slower path back to normal.

But policy makers appeared to hint that they had little fear that inflation was running out of control, which traders took as a sign the Fed won't feel compelled to move more aggressively than expected to lift rates in the future.

But developing country policy - makers face some big questions too, which are rightly getting more attention.

VICTORIA — New Democrats are introducing a bill calling for the creation of a sustainable development board which would report to policy makers about key indicators of economic, environmental and social progress.

Since April, the Bank of Canada had been talking about a potential rate increase in the context of an «economic expansion» that failed to achieve the velocity that policy makers expected, keeping a lid on inflation, which the central bank is mandated to contain at an annual rate of about 2 per cent.

This is important because most economists (famously, Becker) and policy - makers often assume that income is shared equitably among all members of the household, within which power relations do not exist.

«There should be very strict safeguards put into place, which of course is not beyond the wit of our policy and law makers.»

Yet it is this community to which policy - makers turn to guide them on the one shared goal — the improvement of the economy.

The decision as to which policies to implement is then that of policy - makers.

This would mean, as all academic disciplines attained the university ideal, that policy makers could not turn anywhere within the university for help in thinking about the ends which policies should subserve.

Powers are people who are decision - makers in the established organizations of society, the organizations which by and large control the systems, determine the policies, provide the money and make it.

American policy - makers have justified their counterrevolutionary stance on the basis of the threat of international Stalinism, and these rightist regimes — even though they may have been distasteful — were preferable to leftist forces which tilted the balance of power against our side.

It is significant that India, which more than any Asian country has emphasized the primacy of economic over military aid, was among the first, through its ambassador, to commend American policy makers for the firm stand taken in 1950 in Korea.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

Much of the company's diversification — and its past growth and share - price success — is thanks to a constant policy of bolting on businesses, the latest of which has been food maker and distributor Hudson Pacific.

We see it with the baby milk issue and our latest newsletter, Update 44, examines some specific cases where a desire by policy makers to work with corporations (which sometimes includes accepting funding) has led to the rights of mothers and babies being neglected or even undermined.

Health professionals and policy makers should be aware of patterns in media coverage and the cultural background within which women make decisions about infant feeding.

Modelling a new way of talking about breastfeeding that clarifies the evidence and acknowledges the fact that improving breastfeeding rates is not the responsibility of individual mothers; rather, this is a public health imperative for which government, policy makers, communities and families all share responsibility

To stem the tide against breastfeeding, in August, 1990, policy makers and international agencies adopted the Innocenti Declaration, which declared that all babies should receive «exclusive breastfeeding from birth to 4 — 6 months of age [WHO recommendations amended to 6 months in 2001] and thereafter should continue to be breastfed».

Ruth Lawrence, the American Academy of Pediatrics» breastfeeding committee's past chair, says formula companies» influence has shaped U.S. policy in a variety of ways, for example by inhibiting U.S. hospitals from joining UNICEF's Baby - Friendly Initiative, which requires hospitals to promote breastfeeding and refuse promotional handouts from formula makers.

MIKAEL SOLAGE: Greetings, my name is Mikael Solage, I am a new mother I have a 11 month old son, I'm a pumping mom on the go and you know, I like to nurse at home as well but most importantly I am a law maker in New York state and I'm advocating for a family friendly policy which include lactation rooms in airport and in public buildings.

Section 2 is an 8 session course which aims to orient hospital decision and policy - makers on the BFHI and gain their commitment on achieving and sustaining BFH status.

Instead it suggests two points: first, policy - makers are increasingly concerned about the mushrooming of al - Qaeda - like groups across Syria, which implicates a scenario of long - term internal and cross-border instability; second, it is an attempt to deligitimise Western strategy in Syria by focusing on the openly violent, sectarian and fanatic elements.

The meetings will be held on Oct. 25 in Cortland and Nov. 14 in Newburgh as state lawmakers and other policy makers grapple with how to combat addiction, which has afflicted rural, suburban and urban parts of the state.

ICE Scotland challenge policy - makers to commit to infrastructure, setting out recommendations which will help prepare for the challenges of climate change and population growth.

It provides a forum in which emerging scholars can publish their work alongside established academics and policy - makers, and operates a double - blind peer review process.