Sentences with phrase «fiscal front»

To the extent that his budgets have any focus at all, they tend to be aimed at supporting what passes for an agenda in Stephen Harper's Ottawa: use targeted spending and boutique tax cuts to micro-target the electorate and keep the Conservative base ginned up, while doing just enough on the fiscal front to keep Bay Street more or less onside.

However, room for manoeuvre on the fiscal front in most advanced economies (AEs) was soon exhausted, and attention had to turn to fiscal consolidation as opposed to expansion.

Hammadi emphasises Hollande's justice theme: «The most important issue is the question of justice — between rich and poor, on the fiscal front, in cities and tackling ghettoization, and most important of all justice for youth and a generational contract.»

In modern times, a similarly bearded Labour leader has achieved the remarkable: in transforming Labour into a robustly anti-austerity party, he has successfully shifted the political goalposts on the fiscal front, moving them towards somewhere more in tune with the general public.

On the fiscal front, Cuomo urged adoption of a sixth pension tier to save the state money, which is sure to lead to outcries from union leaders.

Cuomo has recently sacrificed some trust on the fiscal front.

«I've wanted him to go farther, faster on the fiscal front in New York,» he said.

On the fiscal front, economists and investors will look for steps to share more evenly revenues and expenditure between central and local governments and the expansion of the use of value added tax in the services sector.

The trip was «marked mostly with less than positive news on the fiscal front, for sure,» Deasy told LA School Report today.