Drawing applause on the first day of the event — staged for the 45th time this year — Rifai said: «The first decade of the 21st century was a decade of extraordinary tourism growth, but also of severe shocks: a decade that began with September 11th and ended
with global economic crisis.
At the end of a presidential campaign in which education received some attention but never emerged as a top - tier issue, analysts were trying to look beyond this week's election to the K - 12 issues awaiting the next president and gauge where they might fit as a new administration prepares to grapple
with a global economic crisis.
I recently came across this Korean dating service Duo.co.kr from a post on Online Personals Watch and it looks like matchmaking is booming big time in South Korea even
with the global economic crisis we are facing.
«When asked about how he is dealing
with the global economic crisis, a clear majority say Mr Brown is doing well.
Not exact matches
Bolton thinks the low application numbers are partly due to the blame that has been placed on business schools for the
global economic crisis, along
with the bleak job market for MBAs, which has led to lower starting salaries and fewer job offers.
Along
with managing Canada's performance during the
global economic crisis, I am pleased our government brought forward positive measures to make Canada one of the world's best places to do business.
Coupled
with other bumps on the road (think the eurozone
crisis and slow
global growth) the overall effect, he added, «has been
economic growth around 2 percent, and only a very gradual improvement in labor markets.»
But as the
global fi nancial
crisis spread, Ireland became one of its worst victims,
with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink by 13.5 % by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime
economic contractions ever seen.
She was also a member of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's
Economic Advisory Council, which included a group of 11 Canadian business leaders charged with advising the Government of Canada on the global economic
Economic Advisory Council, which included a group of 11 Canadian business leaders charged
with advising the Government of Canada on the
global economiceconomic crisis.
Along
with the tremendous
economic growth, the region has showed remarkable resilience against some of the deepest
global financial
crises in decades.
Tobias Carlisle of Eyquem Investment Management LLC has run the blog since December of 2008 during the
global economic crisis,
with a focus on research - based strategies that have generated long - term, market - beating returns for investors.
In 2009, the G20 showed that, when confronted
with a serious
crisis, it was capable of implementing a credible coordinated strategy to support
global economic growth.
The latest moves coincide
with signs that China's annual
economic growth may dip below 7 % in the third quarter for the first time since the
global financial
crisis, marking a slowdown in one of the world's main engines of
economic expansion in recent years.
He and Gingrich don't disagree on evolution and manmade
global warming probably happening, but the ex-governor does have a firmer grasp on what's required to deal
with the
economic crisis of our time.
With the current
economic crisis, fear of
global warming, and failing environment, this year's Buy Nothing Day has a greater sense of urgency.
As
with the last great
crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major
economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the
crisis in
global financial markets unleashed in 2008.
The Construction Products Association's latest State of Trade Survey, which has been launched today, shows that although a Eurozone
crisis appears to have been averted for the time being, the prospect of an
economic slowdown in the major European economies, together
with increasing
global energy and raw material prices, remain as the major threats to further recovery in the UK construction products industry.
However, in November 2008 when the
global economic crisis led to an unprecedented 1.5 percentage points cut in the base rate, banks such as HBOS, Lloyd's TSB and Abbey all passed on the full 1.5 % cut to borrowers
with standard variable rate (SVR) mortgages.
The ever deepening European and
global economic crisis, and the probably now irreparable rift in the Tory Party, combined
with the completely unreformable hostility to any, even mildly, Left programme, of the Blairites, means that by 2020 the UK Westminster Parliament and party structures across the spectrum could well be very different to today's frankly, unworkable Tory and Labour Party formations.
Even in the face of a
global economic and financial
crisis in 2007/8 (
with oil prices reaching a record high of $ 147 / barrel),
economic growth in 2008 rose to 9.1 %.
The
global economic crisis that was installed in 1929 only ended
with the outbreak of World War 2.
The Brazil that was immune to the effects of the
global crisis of 2008 shows at present signs of
economic deterioration characterized by low GDP growth and the return of inflation, which could mean the existence of a process of
economic stagnation
with inflation (stagflation).
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.
The roots of the
global crisis of access to water aren't in the absence of physical supply, but associated
with the poverty, sociopolitical and
economic inequality, and water management policies inefficient.
Iceland scores high on international assessments, but in the
global crisis of 2008 — 2009 it became an
economic basket case
with a national debt equal to 850 percent of its gross domestic product.
It was announced on 5 December 2008, that Honda would be exiting Formula One
with immediate effect due to the 2008
global economic crisis.
Poloz also notes that those Canadians
with high - household debt have actually doubled since 2008, when the
global economic crisis hit.
Hot markets like Vancouver have been spared the bad fortune of other countries who have had to grapple
with the aftermath of the
global economic crisis and can rest easy knowing that they don't have to be concerned about destabilising market fluctuations.
hotel.info, the leading online hotel reservation service
with more than 210,000 hotels around the world, is reacting to the
global economic crisis by targeting small and medium - sized businesses.
Starting from the
global economic crisis and the cultural and social contradictions it revealed, the artworks exhibited investigate visual stereotypes as well as our everyday relationship
with image production.
Castro's exhibition at Museum Het Domein deals
with problems caused by the
global economic crisis and developments in European politics.
How about BAU
with carbon dioxide buildup partially masked by aerosol - induced
global dimming, building climate
crisis leading to a major
economic recession?
Yet while we have suffered an
economic crisis produced by our own financial sector — losing millions of jobs, trillions in
economic output, and further damaging our industrial base — China has largely shrugged off the
global recession
with high levels of growth and self - financed stimulus, all while purchasing billions of Treasury bills to finance our own deficit.
Tinkering
with the
economic system that generated the
global crises is not enough.
The current employment scenario for young people, worsened by the
global economic crisis, poses an urgent challenge
with long - term implications for both young people and society as a whole.
Some participants hoped the
global financial
crisis in 2008, and the European financial
crisis now, might force resolution of systemic Wicked Problems
with the
global economic system.
Well, the world has moved on since 2007 — through a
global financial
crisis into a new era of pinched economies and a deepening divide between the
economic have - it - alls and the have-lesses (and less and less
with each passing year), as expressed in the Occupy movement.
After a long and stuttering recovery from the
global financial
crisis, the forecast in association
with Oxford Economics, predicts an uptick in transactional activity, based on
global economic activity increasing to an average growth rate of 2.9 % per year over the next three years, compared to an annualized 2.5 % since 2012.
Our strong background in helping clients rapidly respond to workplace
crisis enables us to help our
global clients identify ways to mitigate cost and time associated
with preparing for and responding to legal and
economic issues.
With the country facing difficulties during the
global economic crisis which impacted the mining industry, they have an increased amount of mining opportunities.
The
global economic crisis, the beginning of which was directly related
with the Iheman Brothers» collapsion, also caught Europe totally unprepared,
with the governments of southern Europe, and first of all Greece & Cyprus, facing the biggest problem.
In the face of an
economic crisis with global repercussions, the German public has been fascinated by the role of the Constitutional Court whom they admire.
All five days feature plenary and concurrent sessions on topics including: what recent
global economic crises mean for doing business in the EU; managing privilege across borders; a corporate counsel guide to managing a
global workforce; keeping your advertising on side
with Canada's anti-spam act, and doing business
with financially troubled companies.
With growing
economic and specifically financial sector integration, the network effect is all too evident in the chain reaction of Greece's
crisis ripples through the
global financial system.
With price growth slowing, and even turning negative, in some major housing markets such as UK and the US due to the recent
global financial and
economic crisis, it is important for property investors aiming at maximizing returns and minimizing risk, to understand the dangers of purchasing a property in order to rent it.