Sentences with phrase «national income on»

Indeed, France and Germany spent over a third more than Britain of national income on health, during this period.

He used the cover of the Lib Dems to press ahead with bold reforms at the heart of his modernising project: making gay marriage legal, introducing Free Schools, overhauling Britain's something - for - nothing benefits culture and — controversially — committing to spend 0.7 per cent of UK national income on foreign aid.

In an earlier newspaper interview with the Sun, she hinted at some domestic policy pledges, including potentially dropping the target of spending 0.7 % of national income on foreign aid and scrapping the triple lock on pensions.

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

A Mail on Sunday petition calling for a Commons debate on Britain's commitment to spend 0.7 per of national income on foreign aid has got a staggering 150,000 plus signatures, only a week after its launch.

International aid campaigners welcomed the prime minister's decision to include in his legislative agenda the international development spending draft bill, which will put the government's commitment to spend 0.7 % of national income on development from 2013 on to the statute books.

The EU12 group of recent entrants to the EU including Cyprus and Malta as well as Eastern European countries - has promised to spend 0.17 per cent of national income on aid by 2010 and 0.33 per cent by 2015.

It now stands behind Luxemburg, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium and Finland, spending 0.41 per cent of national income on overseas aid.

In a policy described as «hard - headed - but not hard - hearted», the Tories reiterated their commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of national income on international development, meeting the target set by the United Nations.

First, Britain will become the first major economy to spend 0.7 % of national income on international development.

In the coming Budget, we will become the first G8 country to realise the historic promise to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.

Assuming he hasn't had a change of heart and decided to row back on promises set out in the Conservative manifesto and the Coalition Agreement, the detail in the Red Book will confirm that the UK will meet its promise to spend 0.7 % of our national income on aid from next year.

The last Conservative manifesto contained a commitment not just to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid, but also to «legislate in the first session of a new Parliament to lock in this level of spending for every year from 2013.»

My Ministers will invest in Britain's armed forces, honouring the military covenant and meeting the Nato commitment to spend 2 % of national income on defence.

The Conservative party has committed itself to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on development by 2013.

The government should drop its commitment to spending 0.7 % of gross national income on development aid, peers have said.

It is why Britain is the only country in the G20 to spend 0.7 % of gross national income on overseas development.

We spend far less of our national income on health than countries like Germany and France, and this scandalous failure to invest is not without consequences.

However, we rarely hear an ethical critique of the whole principle of an all - embracing welfare state controlled by a government that spends nearly half of national income on it.

Christian aid agencies have praised George Osborne's budget announcement which confirmed the UK will spend 0.7 % of its national income on aid this yea... More

Close to one - in - five Canadians (17 %) believe that Canada spends more than the UN target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas development assistance.

Not exact matches

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts («NAREIT») defines funds from operations («NAREIT FFO») as net income / (loss) attributable to common shareholders computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States («GAAP»), excluding gains or losses from sales of operating real estate assets and change in control of interests, plus (i) depreciation and amortization of operating properties and (ii) impairment of depreciable real estate and in substance real estate equity investments and (iii) after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures calculated to reflect NAREIT FFO on the same basis.

Wong and Penner based their research on a long - running national study in which interviewers asked more than 14,000 people about things like income, job, and education.

For instance, in Sweden — which had the highest ODA / GNI ratio in 2014 of 1.1 percent — those on the biggest wages pay national income tax of 25 percent and municipal income tax of around 32 percent.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

It reports $ 110 million of net income on $ 3 billion in revenue for the nine months ending Nov. 2, 2013, compared to $ 95 million in net income on $ 2.88 billion in revenue for the year - earlier period. www.michaels.com National Mentor Holdings, a Boston - based provider of home and community - based health services to children and adults with disabilities, is preparing to file for an IPO that could value the company at more than $ 1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

They left concluding that the country is suffering from a severe case of national apathy, brought on by an obsession with eliminating income disparity.

It's not just a New York problem: 1 in 5 millennial parents report spending 50 percent to 59 percent of income on housing, according to a 2016 report from the National Endowment for Financial Education and Parents magazine.

Moreover, the fully funded contributions are likely to be more volatile and, even if the contribution rates are lower, the claims of the pensioners on national income do not change from one funding method to another.

«Mark - Up of H.R. 3996, The Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 and H.R. 3997, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2007,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, November 1, 2007; «Baucus, Grassley Tackle Alternative Minimum Tax Relief on First Day of 110th Congress,» Press Release, January 4, 2007; «Easing the Family Tax Burden,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, March 8, 2001; «Revenue Proposals and Tax Cuts in the President's Budget,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, February 28, 2001; «President's Tax Relief Proposals: Individual Income Tax Rates,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, February 13, 2001; Jerry Tempalski, «The Impact of the 2001 Tax Bill on the Individual AMT,» National Tax Association Proceedings: 94th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 10, 2001.

The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated with very high interest rates.

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The letter urged Klein to replace the Canada Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.»

June 13, 2016 - CCGG Executive Director Stephen Erlichman was quoted in the National Post with regard to various REITs providing more rights to unitholders, as recommended in CCGG's policy on the Governance of Canadian REITs and Other Public Income Trusts.

Warning that Greece will require far more generous debt relief than is currently on offer from its creditors, it predicted that public debt is likely to peak at 200 % of its national income within the next two years.

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

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Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Furthermore, we feel much more detail should be provided on the economic forecasts, including forecasts of the various components of national income and expenditure, and comparison to the private sector average, among others.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

But it's also important for Canada as a whole, given the implications for national income and interprovincial trade, as well as the industry's sizable influence on business investment.

NIPA Corporate Profits: This data is released by the government as part of the National Income and Product Accounts and is based on the tax receipts of all US corporations.

In the National Income and Product Accounts, «rent» appears on only one line, where it refers to the benefit owner - occupants receive from their own residences, as if they paid rent to themselves.

In the United States about 3 percent of national income is spent on imports; in Europe the proportion may rise to 20 or 25 percent.

The ceiling tariffs for incoming calls, while on national roaming have been reduced from Rs 1.75 per minute to 75 paisa per minute.

Remarks to the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance regarding proposed changes to the Income Tax Act

More specifically, block trading accounted for 18 percent of the overall flow in the fixed income segment during the month versus 36 percent in 2016 and 24 percent in 2015, based on National Bank Financial figures.

Canada's National Household Survey on incomes produced flawed data with harmful implications for public policy, according to a range of researchers and statistics experts who have sifted through the numbers.

Several researchers, including an official of the National Tax Agency, have discussed income taxation on virtual currency and not one of them opposes the taxation.