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Legal aid lawyers maintain that the desire to cut costs, reinforced by austerity in the last eight years, has had a serious effect on access to justice — and thereby the rule of law.

Not exact matches

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

But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.

Already in Brazil, the region's biggest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is starting to roll out a more conservative message of austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits, to tame a record budget deficit widened by the biggest economic slowdown in 25 years.

And way over in Ireland, which has been devastated by the financial crash and subsequent austerity, an organization called Debtoptions is taking the fight to the banks by suing them.

He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.

In response to a journalist's question, the governor says he agrees with the view consumers are facing high debt loads today because they filled in the debt - accumulation void left when governments turned to austerity by shutting down stimulus measures to address fallout from the 2008 financial crisiIn response to a journalist's question, the governor says he agrees with the view consumers are facing high debt loads today because they filled in the debt - accumulation void left when governments turned to austerity by shutting down stimulus measures to address fallout from the 2008 financial crisiin the debt - accumulation void left when governments turned to austerity by shutting down stimulus measures to address fallout from the 2008 financial crisis.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Countries experiencing the biggest reductions in expected growth include Brazil and India, whose economies have cooled this year; newly industrialized Asian economies, like Korea and Singapore, hit by a broader global slowdown; and Britain, struck by austerity budgeting.

The Conservative «growth friendly austerity» strategy has failed consistently, whenever and wherever it has been applied: whether in the U.S. under Republican administrations; in the EURO area in recent years; by the G20 after 2010; and, definitely in Canada since 2010.

So, by trying to rephrase the question in a way that will get a «Yes» vote, they avoid asking the really important question: Do you Greeks want to push yourselves into a decade of depression and impose austerity?

Ms. Caro Diaz is part of the Organizing and Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.

In a polarising referendum called by the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras at only eight days notice, Greeks voted by more than 60 % to 40 % in support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in return for an extension of bailout fundIn a polarising referendum called by the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras at only eight days notice, Greeks voted by more than 60 % to 40 % in support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in return for an extension of bailout fundin support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in return for an extension of bailout fundin return for an extension of bailout funds.

Five years of failed austerity policies in Greece and a total breakdown in trust between the leftwing Syriza alliance and the political leaders of its creditors climaxed in a national vote in which Greeks said no to the spending cuts and tax increases demanded by its lenders...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

Politicians in Athens will have to show some serious guts to enforce the austerity measures demanded by its European creditors in the face of a crumbling economy and an angry populace.

The potential withdrawal of Greece from the euro at the very least emboldens left wing / nationalist factions in Spain, Italy, and France, who see the results of the Greek referendum as legitimizing rebellion against the diet of austerity imposed by Brussels.

Syriza campaigned to stay in the euro but renegotiate the austerity conditions agreed by the preceding Greek government.

Greece's central financial institution governor Yannis Stournaras warned the uncertainty risked «throwing away the difficult sacrifices» created by the place because it commenced implementing agonizing austerity in 2012.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhereIn 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein countries elsewhere).

In their current sort, the proposals «totally will not be recognized as the 30pc that they needed to substitute,» warned Mr Dijsselbloem, referring to Syriza's want to substitute a third of the austerity steps agreed by the prior government.

Varney asked Stockman about a New York Times column by Nobel Prize - winning economist Paul Krugman in which Krugman argued now isn't the time for government austerity.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

● The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis By Ben Clift Summary via publisher (Oxford University Press) This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path - breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the EurozonAusterity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis By Ben Clift Summary via publisher (Oxford University Press) This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path - breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisiBy Ben Clift Summary via publisher (Oxford University Press) This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path - breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozonausterity by providing a path - breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisiby providing a path - breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisis.

«The lack of transparency in assigning public funds and the discriminatory impact on how vulnerable communities in particular are devastated by austerity may become evident again as Puerto Rico awaits disaster relief funds, and communities await to see how those funds will be distributed,» she wrote.

Growth in most of the eurozone has remained tepid and reliant on continued central bank stimulus, though the European Central Bank's (ECB's) bond - purchasing program has been hampered by a scarcity of eligible bonds, as issuance from member governments is restricted by their austerity - driven policies.

While it is regrettable that he never made his peace with Italian classicism» one wonders what Cram might have learned from the delicate austerity of Florentine arcades or the freewheeling geometric brilliance of Borromini» his early embrace of the Mexican Baroque (spurred by his partner Goodhue), his late interest in the Iberian Renaissance, and his numerous forays into American colonial revival show he was no mere Gothic fanatic.

... 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 is here that human emotion, repressed at some points by the austerity of the doctrine of God as developed in theology, has its full outlet — a warm human emotion which the peasant can share with the mystic.

From outgoing Greek Prime Minister Papandreou's torpedoing of the G20 by his «bolt from the blue» referendum call, swiftly withdrawn under outraged pressure from the Merkel - Sarkozy tandem, to Italy's Berlusconi teetering on the edge, then announcing he will resign and abandon his attempts to cling to power, to Sarkozy himself introducing larger than expected «austerity» cuts despite the upcoming presidential election in 2012 — politics is back.

Research conducted by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Family and Childcare Trust opens a window on to the lives of 11 families, providing a vivid illustration of the delicate balancing act necessary to sustain household budgets and keep family life on track in austerity.

Assuming the coalition continues its austerity drive at the same pace as that seen in the period covered by the 2010 comprehensive spending review, all government departments will have to make cuts of 1.6 %.

Trident involves a nuclear priesthood with an archaic language and doctrine stuck in a past conflict that matters little to most of the electorate, protected from the ravages of austerity by a political class out of touch.

In times of financial austerity, military spending is constrained by the willingness of a society to pay for its security and interests.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

He is ruffling feathers in Brussels and Berlin by insisting that he will renegotiate the EU's newly agreed fiscal treaty — enshrining budget discipline and austerity into eurozone countries» national laws and constitutions — to put more emphasis on growth and employment.

This is partly driven by the need for innovation in the light of financial austerity, alongside the recognition that a vibrant public realm is at the core of a successful, prosperous society.

At the same time, though, diplomacy is getting weaker because of austerity, because of Iraq and Afghanistan, because of a sort of inward - ness in Europe — look at the Brexit debate — and there's a retreat generally from world leadership on lots of issues by the leading power.

If, say, questions about austerity or the regulation of banks are in the public eye, different ideologies will try to win the debate by appealing to the virtues of private enterprise, or to the need for public transparency and accountability, or to the greater redistribution of wealth.

It should send a message to the high rollers in banking that bonuses are unacceptable while ordinary people suffer the austerity forced on them by the colossal errors of the banking elite.

In the UK, a Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government elected in 2010 began a strong austerity drive by halting and reviewing all major IT contracts, squeezing IT suppliers for costs reductions, cutting back consultancy and instituting stringent requirements for the launching of any new government IT innovationIn the UK, a Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government elected in 2010 began a strong austerity drive by halting and reviewing all major IT contracts, squeezing IT suppliers for costs reductions, cutting back consultancy and instituting stringent requirements for the launching of any new government IT innovationin 2010 began a strong austerity drive by halting and reviewing all major IT contracts, squeezing IT suppliers for costs reductions, cutting back consultancy and instituting stringent requirements for the launching of any new government IT innovations.

«Official forecasts will show George Osborne's emergency Budget hitting growth and costing jobs in the short term, government sources said last night, but the austerity measures will also create a brighter climate for the economy by the end of the parliament.

They have since U-turned on both the timing and the scale of the austerity measures; Cable claims he was persuaded of the case for deep and early cuts, «not by other politicians, but by talking to the most senior officials in the government and the central bank [who said] that we had to act».

Text of my review of George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor by Janan Ganesh, which appeared in the Guardian on Saturday.

I would suggest that a better approach than austerity budgets is to improve the business climate and reduce government deficits by enacting the New York Health Act in order to lower health care costs to business and government.

In fact, I don't remember her once standing up against any of the austerity policies which made the lives of those struggling to get by, so much harder.

EU austerity policies were also met with rising frustration in Ireland, a country which quickly responded to the crisis but it is still saddled by high bank debt.

Despite all the progress realized by Samaras» government, Greece's creditors demanded close to $ 3 billion in new austerity measures including, among other things, increases in VAT on hotel services up to 13 % (from 6.5 %).

Clearly, the imposition of fiscal austerity in Greece by the IMF, EU Commission, and ECB has failed.

If she wants to see this in action, she should get out into the communities that have been hit hardest by austerity.