"Economic austerity" refers to a set of measures taken by governments to reduce spending and control public debt. This often involves cutting public services, increasing taxes, and implementing stricter financial policies to stabilize the economy and improve the country's financial situation.
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This is what would happen during times
of economic austerity or illness when rapid weight loss would potentially occur with little food consumed or available.
Since this statistical analysis was undertaken we have entered a period of
profound economic austerity accompanied by continuing increases in domestic gas and electricity prices.
«These achievements render even more appalling the Coalition Government's dismantling of the 14 - 19 education strategy which secured these improvements, its limiting of the chances of disadvantaged young people by scrapping the EMA, and its damaging
economic austerity policy, which will leave young people, regardless of their A level grades, facing bleak future employment and education prospects.
We know that the very real worry for many families is that of what will happen to their relative if they should outlive them, especially at a time when
economic austerity means that budgets and benefits are being slashed and the future seems uncertain.
«Suicides closely followed the announcements of specific government economic programs in Greece, and grew to their highest levels in 2012
as economic austerity measures and public outcries accumulated in number and scale,» said senior author Charles C. Branas, PhD, a professor of Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
«A key challenge the Government faces in securing a fair funding system is a legacy of the last six years of
misguided economic austerity which has been to the detriment of schools and pupils.
«In these times of
global economic austerity, the ability to pinpoint quality travel products remains paramount to both business and consumer travellers.
Chairman of the Bar, Chantal - Aimée Doerries QC says: «Today's Queen's Speech, delivered against the backdrop of
continued economic austerity, highlighted the government's drive to cut public expenditure further and to reform public services.
Chris Keates: «Once again we see the stark reality of the Government's
economic austerity policy and deregulation which is impacting adversely on the provision of vital public services».
Economic austerity means NASA's lavishly - equipped Curiosity rover will end an era, but Mars will soon host a new breed of robot explorers
While Van den Dorpel speaks through the specialized language of computer programming and perhaps abstrusely anthropomorphizes variably folk or «traditional» approaches to fine art, his work addresses more universal concerns related to ethics
of economic austerity as well as those of inclusion, alienation, and social hierarchies.
ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's parliament has approved plans to lower the voting age by a year to 17 and adopt a proportional representation system, after years of
economic austerity have hammered popular support for traditionally dominant political...
The party's leftist, post-material and socially liberal stance is well - known, and emphasises policies such as opposition to
economic austerity and to PFIs to fund public services; higher marginal rates of income tax for the wealthy; a «living wage» for all; and the replacement of VAT with «eco-taxes» such as aviation fuel tax.
During these times of
economic austerity the British taxpayer wants to be reassured that aid money is not being wasted in corruption and inefficiency.
At a time of
economic austerity and unemployment how does making 1,500 disabled people redundant fit with the government's determination to force those same disabled people into work and claims that «we're all in this together»?
Jeremy Corbyn will brush aside warnings that he risks a return to the divisions of the 1980s when he outlines plans to end «the years of political and
economic austerity» to help create a high - skilled workforce in Britain.
He is expected to further flesh out his economic vision for Britain 2020, signposting the way a Labour government under his leadership intends to return all of our United Kingdom to the sound economics of public investment so as to bring an end to the years of political and
economic austerity.
Some MPs are concerned that his radical stance of facing down corporations and taking on Tory cuts will have little resonance in areas where Labour is facing a tough electoral challenge from Ukip; but asked if the party should tailor its message for different audiences, Corbyn said: «No: you've got to give fundamentally the same message, of the injustice of
economic austerity, and the way in which local government is being punished».
A poll for the Sunday People newspaper found that voters believed - by a majority of 46 % to 35 % - that the principle of the change was «only fair» at a time of
economic austerity.
The imperatives of the climate crisis and the logic of
economic austerity are at war — and Washington State is on the front lines.1
B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Savage has told the Provincial Court Judges» Association of British Columbia its members must «share the burden» of
economic austerity.