Sentences with phrase «ending years of austerity»
The Greek government, elected early this year on a platform of ending years of austerity imposed by Germany and other lenders, is pushing back against further pension cuts and higher taxes, saying they would further weaken an already crippled economy.
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Austerity measures imposed earlier this year include $ 65 billion ($ 80 billion) in spending cuts and tax increases by the end of 2014.
Departments not protected by ringfencing will face total cuts of over 30 % since 2010 by the end of the coalition's eight - year austerity programme, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.
He persuaded the public that the years of austerity were worth the pain and that there genuinely is light at the end of the tunnel.
Actually it does because the Tory manifesto will be used during the crucial last three weeks of the campaign to do the one thing that had to be done - to show the public who have had a tough time that five years of austerity were worth the pain as well as revealing that the light at the end of the tunnel is the Good Life.
The chancellor, George Osborne, certainly plans more austerity, hoping to achieve a budget surplus and a rapidly declining debt - to - GDP ratio by the end of the decade (four years later than he originally predicted).
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.
So we will have a few more years of more borrowing but my guess is that this is not the end of austerity.»
«Eight years of Tory austerity, which Labour will bring to an end, have had a disastrous effect on our vital public services and workers have paid a heavy price in the cost of living and their working lives.
Two remarkable books that came out this year — Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips and The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey — each makes the case that growth, technology, and accelerated modernization can solve the twin global problems of poverty and environmental devastation.