Sentences with phrase «fall in government spending»

According to the research, every one per cent fall in government spending in Greece leads to a 0.43 per cent rise in suicides among men.

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Under the Canada Economic Action Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been cut.

The March 22nd budget may shed some light on government program spending for 2011 - 12, but we won't know the final spending outcome until the audited financial results for 2011 - 12 are tabled in the fall of 2012.

To date, these recommendations have fallen on deaf ears and Parliamentarians and Canadians will continue to remain in the dark about the Government's spending intentions.

This meant that Main Estimates of government spending, which were tabled on February 28, 2012, were based on economic assumptions presented in the previous Fall 2011 Update and not those in the 2012 budget.

Disaster relief has fallen victim to the ongoing spending battles in Washington that led to a three - day government shutdown, and another shutdown is possible if Congress can't strike a deal by Feb. 8.

While Budget 2018 manages to shrink the projected deficit to $ 18.1 billion from the Fall 2017 Update's projected $ 18.6 billion, government has promised $ 21.5 billion in new spending yet does not set out a path to return to balanced budgets.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

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.

AV IS COMPLEX: The Government will have to spend millions of pounds explaining to voters how AV works to prevent a fall in turnout at elections.

Supplementary Budgetary legislation in New Zealand includes an annual «Appropriation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill», which serves to validate taxation and spending incurred in the previous year which fell outside the previous year's Budget, and «Imprest Supply Bills,» typically several in a year, which grant interim authority to the Government to tax and spend.

«Returning to fiscal reality after the Labour government's huge spending spree is clearly necessary, but the overall fall in real terms spending will be modest.

Although that spending fell dramatically in the first six months of this year (by 46 %), this is mostly due to government programmes being stopped altogether rather than any coherent examination of consultants» value for money, the committee added.

Mr Balls said: «Eric Pickles fell asleep for a quite extended period of time and Ed and I were worried because there might have been some big cut in local government spending coming which he didn't know about.

An effort in the past legislative session to reform how economic development money is spent, disclosed and overseen fell short at the Capitol, but good - government and budget reform groups aren't giving up.

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

(CNN)- In yet another sign that Congress is headed for a clash in the fall over government spending, Senate Republicans Thursday blocked a transportation and housing bill, arguing it would break budget spending capIn yet another sign that Congress is headed for a clash in the fall over government spending, Senate Republicans Thursday blocked a transportation and housing bill, arguing it would break budget spending capin the fall over government spending, Senate Republicans Thursday blocked a transportation and housing bill, arguing it would break budget spending caps.

«Eric Pickles fell asleep for a quite extended period of time and Ed [Miliband] and I were worried because, you never know, there might have been some big cut in local government spending coming which he didn't know about so we just politely suggested to Vince Cable that he should wake him up.»

Equally pertinent is the fact that the 0.5 per cent fall in output in the fourth quarter of 2010 can not be attributed to Government cuts because there weren't any; spending was actually 5 per cent higher than in the same period of 2009, which rather holes Mr Balls's case below the waterline.

But Michael Meacher, the Labour spokesman on science, questioned the commitment of a government whose own figures show that its overall spending on research — including spending by government departments, universities and research councils — will fall from # 5.6 billion in 1992 to # 5.2 billion in 1995.

The agreement also negated the threat of a government shutdown this fall from conservatives unhappy with any increase in federal spending.

Both characters do something to fall out of favor with their bosses very early in the novel, and spend the rest of their time actively hiding from society — Jessica on the run from a pair of embittered career government field agents and Ethan from a shadowy Russian capitalist who wants to hire him to add to his millions.

They say it will be cost effective because currently the government spends over 100 $ in text books, and ebook reader will fall in price soon.

According to the International Energy Agency, a Paris - based think tank, government spending on energy R&D as a share of spending fell from an 11 % peak in 1981 to just under 7 % in 2013.

I agree that the procrastination of the US federal government in getting on with the business of using the $ 25 + billion in the spent fuel fund to set a proper long term waste management facility falls well short of discharging their responsibility.

Despite a Congressional mandate directing the Export - Import Bank of the United States to use 10 % of its 2009 - 2010 financing towards renewable energy project, according to a US Government Accountability Office report the Bank will fall «well short of the 10 % Congressional target» — as in only spending 2 % on renewables.

Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College London, points out that the more the government has spent on criminal justice and the deeper their reforms have gone, the smaller has been the fall in the official crime rate.

Those consequences often fall on the Americans who fund the government through taxes in the form of higher interest rates (more on this in a minute) and more government spending on debt rather than priorities like roads or health care.