But despite the more upbeat economic assessment, the Fed also sounded a bit less worried over inflation.
The Foreign Office has said a "full economic assessment" was needed before any new link could be funded.
Earlier this week the Japanese government downgraded its economic assessment for the country.
The British pound was fairly buoyant, despite grim U.K. unemployment numbers and a less-than-upbeat price growth and economic assessment from the Bank of England.
Their NI 43-101 has been completed and updated and they finished almost a year ago the next requirement in the chain, the PEA (preliminary economic assessment).
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Specific guidelines of how to correct for the optimism bias in appraisals were published in the British government's Green Book, which provides an overall methodology for economic assessment.
The airport released an economic impact assessment showing the claimed benefits of increasing the number of flights.
In 2010, it became the first in its industry to carry out a comprehensive socio-economic impact assessment in Ghana, one of its key markets.
An economic impact assessment commissioned by the Stonehaven Town Partnership (STP) has said re-opening the road to light vehicles could be worth millions of pounds each year.
In light of Europe's continuing and growing economic difficulties, such assessment would seem an overstatement, to put it mildly.
The most salient point on their assessment of the economic situation was the rise in inflation, which they attributed to higher energy prices.
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And before I left for the Middle East, I directed them to conduct a thorough assessment of our economic condition, consult with members of Congress, and provide me with their recommendations about any actions we might need to take.
The committee split its assessment of risks to economic growth: these, it said, were evenly balanced between the upside and downside.
If the outlook is for years of low economic growth, then this gloomy dividend assessment will probably be correct.
"We'd like the government to undertake an assessment of the social and economic role played by post offices in communities right across the UK and for them to provide ongoing support to the non commercial parts of the network, " she told BBC Radio Ulster.
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He said the forecasts from the OBR were down to the eurozone crisis, a hike in global commodity prices and a new assessment that the UK's economic boom was bigger and the bust deeper than previously believed.
But before a referendum is held, the government must decide whether or not to recommend joining the euro, following the Treasury's assessment of the chancellor's five economic tests.
Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, said he disagreed with the assessment and that the government's recent measures would show a significant impact on boosting growth and reducing fiscal deficit.
The FOMC statement gave an arguably upbeat assessment of the overall U.S. economic condition.
But another reason might be the assessment of former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, Greg Mankiw.
The ECB had already warned about the risk that economic weakness would hurt banks financially in its most recent assessment of the health of the financial system in December.
Scotland awaits publication in late 2013 of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.
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The Icelandic government said the result of the referendum would delay "by some weeks" the next assessment by the International Monetary Fund of Iceland's progress toward economic recovery.
Mercer, a consulting firm, publishes a ranking of big cities each year based on an assessment of about 40 factors falling into ten categories (political, economic, cultural, medical, educational, public-service, recreational, consumer-goods, housing and environmental).
However, we need to recognize that the China-U.S. economic relationship is changing profoundly, and its increasing complexity merits a more holistic assessment than the narrow focus on trade relations that has developed in the past 20 years.
As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has pointed out in its latest assessment, the performance gap between America and the rest of the industrial world is widening.
Traders are expected a somewhat downbeat U.S. economy assessment from the Fed chief, and will be parsing his words for other economic and monetary policy clues.
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These include a call for a postponement of the election by 60-90 days, an independent assessment of alleged coercive behavior by the Front government and a tying of Western economic assistance to the correction of any such practices and the holding of a genuinely free and fair election.
The US-based ratings agency published its latest assessment on Thursday, amending its view of the Bailiwick's long-term economic stability.
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