Sentences with phrase «costs to the public sector»

The report includes the shifting of educational costs to the public sector as private school students move to charter schools.

the wider impacts on access to justice the wider costs to the public sector and knock - on costs of the reforms;

Not exact matches

«More capital at the early stage is going to drive the breakthroughs that will drive costs down,» said Brian Deese, Obama's senior adviser on climate change who announced the private - public sector initiative to reporters in Washington.

The revelation the state government's Office of Shared Services is to be disbanded after costing taxpayers almost $ 450 million over six years is just the latest in a long line of public sector financial disasters.

And if we got the incentives right, the private sector would pay for 90 percent, which brings public costs down to $ 1 trillion.

«Despite the much higher costs of attendance, earnings effects are smaller in the for - profit sector relative to the effects for comparable students in public community colleges — a result that holds for all but one of the top 10 fields of study,» according to the study abstract.

By using an AFP delivery model, the public sector can shed this risk to the private sector and thus safeguard the public from unavoidable cost overruns.

Alternative financing procurement — better known outside of Ontario as public - private partnerships — allow the public sector to pass on risks of delays and cost overruns to the private sector, in return for a small premium.

The legal case and the cost burden would be shifted from the private to the public sector.

Whether it's class size and composition issues, downloaded costs to school boards without the extra funding to cover them, or public sector workers who previously accepted «net zero» or cooperative gains settlements, a balanced budget might be hard to achieve while keeping educators, parents, and students happy.

China's public - sector investment, in other words, is value destroying, and because it is funded by debt, additional investment causes China's real debt servicing costs to rise faster than its real debt servicing capacity.

China has overinvested in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity to such an extent that in the aggregate the cost of additional public sector investment exceeds the present value of future increases in productivity generated by the investment.

«The most recent study put the total cost at $ 78.5 bn in 2013 and the crisis has grown significantly since then, implying substantial costs to both employers and the public sector.»

Wollaston wants to see the public sector pay cap lifted — «we can not keep out finger in that dam much longer,» she insists — but is aware of the costs involved, and the need for the Tories to maintain fiscal discipline.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude struggled when under forensic examination on the Today programme this morning, when he was seemingly unable to answer why public sector pension reform was needed when its cost as a share of GDP was set to fall.

Up and down the country there are many good examples of hospitals, schools, roads, housing and administrative services being successfully and efficiently delivered at less cost and with greater efficiency than the public sector was able to do.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Mr Pickles» predecessor in government questioned whether the private sector had the capacity to carry out audit functions at the same cost as the public sector, to which the communities secretary replied: «I expect it to be a lot cheaper.»

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

The CEBR report found that if the Government raised the rate of corporation tax from 21 per cent to 26 per cent - the result of equalising the tax rate between big and small business - would cost around 100,000 jobs from the small business sector and reduce economic output by # 4.3 bn, while reducing the public sector deficit by only # 1.6 bn over 10 years.

If this is correct we may hope to expect more pragmatism in fiscal policy over the next few years, rather than allowing a Conservative majority government to spark a determination to reduce the share of government spending and the size of the public sector, regardless of the costs.

One of his major goals since taking office three years ago has been to trim the county workforce and relieve taxpayers of the burden of the unusually high «legacy costs» associated with public sector employees.

Cuomo has had over the years a truculent relationship with some labor unions, including the public sector organizations who he battled in his first term in order to win cost savings in new contracts.

The government is hiking the costs of the process so much that most people simply won't be able to afford to mount a legal challenge against the executive - whether that's a government minister, your local council, or any other public sector area where busybody officials look to take shortcuts.

Payouts to public sector employees were also exaggerated by critics, who argue that rampant wage inflation in the public sector in recent years, has dramatically increased future costs.

«There is no reason to believe that the huge rise in costs in the private sector following a more realistic view of the situation is not just as relevant in the public sector.»

According to him, Jonathan directed the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Okonjo - Iweala, to work along with other relevant stakeholders both in public and private sector including international consultants to come up with what «we believe should be the comparative template about cost of projects particularly civil engineering projects including supply executed in the country to address criticisms on the cost of projects».

Fights over to what extent the county is responsible for paying the full cost of employees» health care have sprung up recently after heated negotiations between the Astorino administration and the Civil Service Employees Association, CSEA — a union representing the county's public sector workers — failed to produce a compromise, including a contract offer that the union rejected earlier this month.

President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday directed that a template for public sector projects valuation be set up to drive down the cost of contracts in the country which he said was higher than what obtains in other parts of the world.

The additional cuts to local government, transport and public sector pay will squeeze already - strained public services, making a mockery of the localism agenda and adding more pressure on the cost of living.

Over the next decade the price of the financial / economic mess we are in will be paid in public sector cuts — better to cut the non-productive audit and bureaucratic command and control regimes (and I include the quangos, central government departments and the consequent costs in local government) than front line services.

And we will continue to open up acute care with, from the spring, the choice of hospitals trusts across private and public sectors in England extending to over 300 - including more than 150 private sector hospitals working as part of the NHS and at NHS cost and standards of quality.

But these very same policies came at a political cost to Cuomo within his own party, angering public sector labor unions and progressives who labeled him «Governor One Percent» and protested him during the 2011 Occupy demonstrations in New York City and Albany.

Cuomo has been studiously working to lock down the support of private sector unions while eschewing the public sector organizations that seem to be included when he discussions the amorphous «special interests» that hold too much away over Albany and are driving the cost of government ever upwards.

The report says Ghana's current rating of B1, negative outlook is constrained by the ongoing weakness in the government's fiscal position due to ongoing spending overruns on the public - sector wage bill, high interest costs and the clearance of payment arrears.

It is simply an economic fact of life that the public and private sectors must change the way they operate and find new cost effective models to fit these times.

It could cover the cost of producing water that is paid by the public sector, and it could send an important signal to internalize the scarcity level of water and change the behavior of consumers.»

The authors estimate that even a 5 percent decline in MMR vaccine coverage in the U.S. would result in an estimated three-fold increase in national measles cases in children ages 2 to 11, for a total of 150 cases and an additional $ 2.1 million in public sector costs.

There would be a long - term public - sector payoff, according to the researchers: Government funding for Alzheimer's research would pale in comparison to the cost of caring for Alzheimer's sufferers in public health - care programs.

«And, just as with the ACA, the impact of broader health insurance coverage in Massachusetts is intertwined with the effects of numerous efforts in the public and private sector to improve health care quality and contain costs,» he adds.

Currently, even when there's funding and momentum to develop a new GMO in the lab, public sector efforts often wilt in the face of the cost, time and political will needed to gain approval — leaving the successes to the giants, Qaim notes.

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) was established to bring together policy, advice and direct buying so that commercial services and goods could become available to the public sector at a reduced cost.

The comparisons are still informative because teachers» health care costs track those of the public sector to some extent.

A 2005 study by the Rhode Island Education Partnership, for example, found that public school districts in that state uniformly allowed employees to select their own health carrier and plan design and that 73 percent of districts offered no - cost health benefits for retirees; not one of the private - sector firms in the state the study examined offered these perks.

The high - profile battle in Wisconsin over collective bargaining on public - sector benefits, as well as lower - profile battles in Ohio and Massachusetts, was to a great extent about health insurance costs for teachers.

Georgia Pre-K, which is heavily regulated, allowed for greater freedom of choice for families, higher quality of services for lower costs, and some gains in equity when compared to public sector pre-K.

In this article we use those data to compare retirement benefit costs for public K — 12 teachers with costs for private - sector professionals.

Virtually all professional economists agree that calculating the value of guaranteed pension benefits using the assumed return on a portfolio of risky assets «understate [s] their pension liabilities and the costs of providing pensions to public - sector workers.»

Moreover, a lot of gifted - ed programs and schools, even in the public sector, carry costs that parents must bear, ranging from ambitious field trips to summer camps to basic transportation.

Had the government paid for the voucher, the expenditure could have taken the form of a simple transfer from the public sector to the private sector, which in the long run need not add to the per - pupil cost of education.