Sentences with phrase «with faster economic growth»

Nations that improve student achievement the most end up with faster economic growth.

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Even the first - quarter slowdown in U.S. economic growth (GDP was 2.3 percent) is being met with the usual skepticism: «We expect faster growth in Q2 and throughout the year,» UBS said in a note to clients.

The authors said Trudeau's fiscal stimulus would add 0.5 % to economic growth this year and next, allowing the economy to reach its non-inflationary level of potential output faster than if former prime minister Stephen Harper's obsession with a balanced budget had remained Ottawa's priority.

After decades of political unrest, recession and high unemployment, Ireland was the fastest - growing economy in the European Economic Community (the precursor to the EU), with annual growth of more than 5 %.

After almost a decade of slow growth, we may finally be returning to what one might call «the old normal»: faster economic growth coming together with the return of increasing costs, inflation, rising interest rates, and greater volatility.

With huge numbers of people who are barely out of poverty, it now needs to prevent near - paupers from falling back, while also dragging the poorest out of destitution faster than economic growth alone could do the job.

We see tax cuts and public spending driving faster growth, but that could hasten the economic expansion's expiration date if it does not come with productivity gains.

They think that the U.S. president is looking to score political points with his base, but that he won't want to upset the stock market record highs and the faster economic growth by putting up too many trade barriers, a move that probably would spook businesses and investors.

States with progressive income taxes have seen slower economic growth and faster growth in inequality.

With global demand slackening and faster economic growth necessary to service an increased debt load, one can see why China's leaders are urgently trying to transition to an alternate growth model not wholly reliant on exports and internal infrastructure.

The rapidly escalating trade conflict with China has upended the prevailing economic dynamic of falling unemployment and faster growth, leaving policymakers and investors scrambling to figure out the way forward.

Critics hammered McDonald's executives not only for offering unhealthful menu items but also for marketing fast food to kids with its Ronald McDonald character and Happy Meal toys, all while the company boasts of eight straight years of sales growth despite a deep economic recession.

«The government's economic policies — spending cuts and tax rises that go too far too fast - have choked off growth and led to record levels of unemployment, with youth unemployment soaring.»

My own research suggests that replacing just 5 % to 8 % of the least effective teachers with an average teacher would noticeably boost the achievement of our current students and would pay off lavishly in the future, through their enhanced productivity and faster economic growth.

Do the economic development benefits of an area's investment in early childhood programs vary with whether the area would otherwise be slow growth or fast growth?

When investors expect stronger economic growth with faster inflation, they'll demand higher yields on long - term bonds.

The European Commission's (E.C.) Autumn 2017 Economic Forecast, meanwhile, showed that the E.C. upgraded its growth forecasts, with the 2017 forecast of +2.2 % being the fastest rate of expansion in a decade.

However, base effects on energy prices will be much less favorable down the road and, combined with a tighter labor market and faster economic growth, could result in a meaningful acceleration in inflation pressures.

It is possible to make economic growth fall even faster, with 1) monetary policy of higher interest rates, or 2) slower rates of money creation.

Without this drastic USA cutback, IPCC estimates that we will reach 600 ppmv CO2 by 2100 (average of cases B1 and A1T, both assuming no special «climate initiatives», population growth rate slowing down reaching 10.5 billion by 2100, with medium and fast economic growth rate).

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Still focused on climate change being «fraught with complexity and uncertainty,» Herkströter outlined Shell's plans for the future: «We will continue to find and produce oil and gas — efficiently and responsibly — to fuel the next 20 - 30 years of economic growth... We will provide more natural gas and develop our businesses in gas - fired power generation... We are moving fast in the area of renewables, with a new core business called Shell International Renewables.

With a young and growing population, low per capita electricity consumption, rapid urbanization and — until recently — strong economic growth, Turkey for nearly two decades has been one of the fastest growing power markets in the world.

Often, the debate is presented as if the only question is how high, and how fast does the carbon price need to climb in order to substitute existing fossil fuel technologies with clean energy technologies, whilst also maintaining economic growth.

The fact that poor Asian countries with most of the world's population have enjoyed faster economic growth rates than the rich countries over the past 30 years is probably the most important socio - economic fact of our time, but it wasn't foreseen by the modellers and, incredibly, many in the IPCC milieu still deny that it's happened: three IPCC chapters (Chapters 1 and 9 of the WG II report and Chapter 1 of WG III report) go out of their way to assert that global inequality has been increasing in recent decades.

This bold policy leadership coupled with NYSERDA's workforce training investments will inject greater momentum into the state's fast - growing clean energy sector, which already employs over 146,000 workers today and is serving as an engine for economic growth in every region of our state.»

This study finds that the recent swift increase in atmospheric CO2 is due to faster economic growth coupled with a halt in carbon intensity reductions, in addition to natural sinks removing a smaller proportion of emissions from the air.

Whenever the models will get higher resolution, they may calculate or catch up what we are measuring every day, mean time we can clearly see (6 billion of us) that we are responsible for this warming, and that it is likely going faster, in direct proportionality with humanities world wide economic output driven by growth, and sadly of course its by - product, pollution.

To have a chance of solving things, the whole system needs to change, starting with the economic fallacies on which policies are based (for instance, the arbitrary number that represents GNP growth is the ultimate goal of society and must therefore eternally grow bigger and bigger and bigger, faster).

Mr. Collymore believes that the global business community is a key catalyst to fast - track inclusive economic growth, with the Global Goals being the most effective lens that can drive businesses to see inequalities as business opportunities.

The data center industry is growing fast and provides Norway with opportunities of economic growth and new jobs.»

Released in December, the quarterly survey showed that at the end of 2017 a smaller share of homeowners believed that now is a good time to buy or sell a home, even with strong job creation and faster economic growth in the last months of 2017.

Together with the relative affordability of its housing market, this is driving economic growth in the city far faster than the national average.