Sentences with phrase «decision by past governments»

We are aware that the initial decision by past governments to pay allowance to students in various training institutions was to motivate and incentivise students to promote entry but looking at the current status of those institutions that initial decision has outlived its policy usefulness considering the level of competition in the admission process.

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Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

The next fiscal squeeze could be very different from those of the past few decades if it starts with a debt wall more comparable to that of the 1920s and 1930s, when governments» room for fiscal manoeuvre was sharply limited by their predecessors» decision to fund the huge costs of World War I largely by borrowing rather than by taxes.

But for the past seven years decisions have been determined by the government's limit on public sector pay.

Obama Administration pressed on Sallie Mae Contract Renewal This past Thursday March 27th, 2014 the Obama administration received a grilling by U.S lawmakers on the government's decision to renew a -LSB-...]

Obama Administration pressed on Sallie Mae Contract Renewal This past Thursday March 27th, 2014 the Obama administration received a grilling by U.S lawmakers on the government's decision to renew a contract with SLM Corp, the infamous student loan... [Read more...] about Obama Administration pressed on Sallie Mae Contract Renewal

This past Thursday March 27th, 2014 the Obama administration received a grilling by U.S lawmakers on the government's decision to renew a contract with SLM Corp, the infamous student loan servicing company better known as Sallie Mae, which happens to be the subject of numerous government investigations.

The decision to maintain these Christian symbols, and their overt presence in public office for the past century seems to support the exact opposite of what the government is seeking, since state neutrality has evidently not been threatened by overt religious symbols in the past.

The NTA provides a fairly comprehensive codification of what past government actions extinguish native title.145 It classifies various interests in the past, often distant past, as «previous exclusive possession acts» which deems them to have permanently extinguished native title.146 The NTA also provides that «previous non-exclusive possession acts» 147 will extinguish native title to the extent of any inconsistency.148 The NTA also validates acts of government that took place before the High Court's decision in Wik which may be invalid because of the existence of native title (generally, due to the Constitutional requirement that «just terms» be paid where property is acquired, 149 or the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).150 This aspect of the NTA has been repeatedly criticised by CERD.