Sentences with phrase «austerity measures imposed»

It may be questionable which effect austerity measures imposed on crisis - hit states can have on social cohesion and sustainable growth.

When one considers films tagged as queer, one probably first thinks of provocations: perhaps the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Germany in the 1970s; or the aesthetic austerity measures imposed by Derek Jarman in England throughout the 1970s and»80s; or the quiet emergence of the New Queer Cinema movement in the U.S. in the»80s and its explosive continuation into the»90s, when filmmakers like Gregg Araki and Todd Haynes and Kimberly Peirce and Rose Troche were taking no prisoners.

How was former PM Samaras able to achieve the aforementioned progress in spite of the austerity measures imposed by the IMF, EU Commission, and ECB?

Exports to China slipped by 7.6 per cent to $ 223 million as a combination of austerity measures imposed by the Chinese government to limit spending by government officials and organisations on luxury products, and a higher dollar, hit sales.

The China downturn also contributed a damaging profit downgrade from Treasury Wine Estates as austerity measures imposed on government officials by President Xi Jinping dampened shopping.

This has been chosen because of the January austerity measures imposed on our stomachs — it contains only a small amount of fat and sugar using pears as a partial substitute.

Austerity measures imposed earlier this year include $ 65 billion ($ 80 billion) in spending cuts and tax increases by the end of 2014.

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In a country that has imposed tough spending controls and austerity measures on all government departments, investing in the future means getting at the end of a very long line.

The economist - who once described the austerity imposed by Greece's creditors as «fiscal waterboarding» - said his new MeRA25 party would revive the economy through debt restructuring and other measures.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has imposed unpopular austerity measures in an attempt to stimulate a stalled economy and attract foreign investment.

Entirely dependent on billions of euros worth of international rescue loans from other European countries and the International Monetary Fund, Greece must impose yet more austerity measures next month, if it is to keep the money flowing and prevent a default and a potentially disastrous exit from the euro.

Austerity measures, including a 5 % reduction in public sector wages and an increased value - added tax (VAT), have been imposed.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

The second problem is that in order to get some of its debt absolved, Puerto Rico agreed to impose the harsh austerity measures — reducing education and health spending, for instance — that hurt growth at the same time that thousands are fleeing to the mainland in search of economic opportunity.

The current German politics of imposing austerity measures on the rest of Europe stems from the tradition of what Adrian Pabst memorably termed «Kantian morality of context-less duties, Weberian statecraft void of virtue, and Bismarckian quasi-military management of citizens through centralised welfare.»

... Nicaragua's early progress in curbing imports, raising grain production, and other reform and austerity measures were undermined badly by new needs for foreign borrowing imposed by the burgeoning defense burden....

It also said a slowdown in China, where the government has imposed austerity measures which have curbed demand for higher - priced wines, had worsened in the past few months.

The Palestinian Authority has nothing to offer Israel so that it would stop the occupation of its lands while Greeks and Cypriots have nothing to offer Germany and the EC so that it would not impose such harsh austerity measures on them.

The public sector in the United Kingdom is undergoing the largest budgetary cuts since the Second World War, while all over Europe governments are imposing harsh austerity measures which may radically curtail the activities of the state.

«The government decided unilaterally to impose austerity measures without consultation, and public workers have not been paid for months.

That's been viewed by some as a swipe at the New Labour administrations that were in power before 2010 as well as the later Conservative led governments that imposed austerity measures.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

The United Kingdom, like several other European countries, is imposing strict austerity measures in response to the economic crisis.

International tensions Raising money for the pipeline may pose a problem at a time when many governments around the world are imposing austerity measures.

Alma then imposes some household austerity measures (like a gardener only once a week) to make ends meet.

The fall for ebooks is very welcome, although the overall rise to 7 % is to be deplored, but is an unfortunate result of the austerity measures we're currently having imposed on us.

Tobias Zielony, Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk, Hito Steyerl, and Olaf Nicolai — the artists exhibited in the Venice Biennale's German pavilion this year — have taken a strong stance in protest against the German government's decision to impose austerity measures on Greece, according to Artnet's Brian Boucher.

Unlike austerity measures, which are typically imposed from outside the service sector, court delay needs to be tackled from within.