Sentences with phrase «in public spending in»

The coalition government was right to announce cuts in public spending in 2010 to show the financial markets and the public that the government was serious about cutting the deficit.

«We need to let people know that reductions in public spending in Wales are lower than the average in the rest of the UK and a lot lower than England,» he said.

Not exact matches

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

The party plans to find $ 1.3 billion in government spending cuts (just like the Liberals, but in a shorter time frame), which would be achieved partially through a hiring freeze in the public sector.

The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

As would other key players, including former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond (author of a detailed report outlining cost - cutting opportunities in Ontario) and former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who has spent decades uncovering wasteful spending in the public service.

The Bank of Canada said nothing in public about the possible merits of deficit spending as it twice cut its benchmark interest rate last year to offset the collapse of oil prices.

Perry Metz, who oversees WFIU and WTIU in Indiana, told Business Insider that he was concerned by the proposed budget and argued that the percent of the federal government's budget that is spent on public media is «tiny.»

President Donald Trump is slated to speak about his $ 200 billion infrastructure plan in Ohio on Thursday, in his first public appearance since begrudgingly signing a $ 1.3 trillion spending package last week.

There are some significant competitive advantages that should begin to accrue to the U.S. economy in the years to come - energy, manufacturing competitiveness and demographics - though the savings required to fund investment could be redirected to the public sector if policymakers do not slow the growth of mandatory spending.»

Couche - Tard went public in 1985, then spent the next 15 years swallowing Quebec - based stores and chains whole, including Provi - Soir, repatriating the owl logo and putting that dependable wink in its eye.

So the following year, when the secretary decided to go public in a Vanity Fair article with her account of a quarter - century spent working for Bernie Madoff, it was hard to begrudge her a voice.

I'm not suggesting blindly spending money just because something is important (as Mark Zuckerberg learned when he invested $ 100 million in the Newark Public Schools).

Flaherty enjoyed a remarkable career of public service, spending a decade in the Ontario legislature before moving to federal politics in 2006.

On Monday former chancellor Norman Lamont defended Hammond's stance, saying on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that «it is unavoidable that we have restraint on public spending,» adding: «it is not right for cabinet ministers to gang up on the chancellor in this way.

The report noted that the spending by public entities to help Najib's United Malays National Organization stay in power was not illegal but «represented a new milestone in Malaysia's freewheeling electoral system.»

To try and secure the deal, the government announced an austerity plan to raise taxes and slash US$ 20 billion in public spending — including cuts to social welfare and public jobs, and a lowering of the minimum wage.

Research firm IDC says worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is on track to reach $ 277 billion in 2021, up from $ 160 billion in 2018.

This is further evidence that telecom players have a tough time competing in the massive public cloud space, where Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spend multiple billions of dollars a year on key infrastructure.

His «Common Sense Revolution» in the 1990s slashed spending and pushed ahead with controversial changes to public services that sparked widespread labour unrest and sometimes violent demonstrations.

While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input in battlefield decision - making — he has faced public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the budget and expanding US involvement in Afghanistan.

Born in Denmark, he spent time at Unilever and Novartis — not two companies associated with the high - tech boom — before founding SuccessFactors in 2001 and taking it public in 2007.

After the two designed their breakthrough invention — a router that connects computer networks — and spent six years building the company, Lerner was fired by its board of directors in 1990, the same year Cisco went public.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

Gore's commitment to public service began when she spent more than two years in Bolivia with the Peace Corps.

In calling for the moratorium, Republican leaders declared, in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, «Pork - barrel spending has outraged American families and eroded public confidence in our institutioIn calling for the moratorium, Republican leaders declared, in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, «Pork - barrel spending has outraged American families and eroded public confidence in our institutioin a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, «Pork - barrel spending has outraged American families and eroded public confidence in our institutioin our institution.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

While the impact on the R&D tax credit would mostly impact large public companies at first, those changes will over time play a role in how future startups spend money on innovation.

In June, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne readied skeptical Britons for the deepest hack to public spending since the Second World War by painting an almost utopian picture of the Canadian experience.

Digging down into the data on public construction, the only uptrend since 2009 is in spending on health care facilities.

That's a departure from a traditional initial public offering in which a company and a few select investors first sell a limited amount of stock at a starting price determined by investment bankers who spend weeks gauging investor demand.

Greg Sands spent years honing his investment skills at Sutter Hill Ventures, where he's known for sourcing deals on companies such as Merced Systems, a multi-year Inc. 500 nominee, and QuinStreet, an online marketing company founded in 1999 that went public in 2010.

People who start companies tend to be goal - oriented: They'll set out to accomplish a big «it» — making a better product, hitting a huge revenue target, going public, whatever — and then spend all of their energy (and most of their waking moments) in its pursuit.

As I tried to illustrate in the comments above, the government has to obtain the funds it spends from some source - the nonbank public through taxes or borrowing or from the Fed and depository institutions.

Recent public spending in top - ranked Norway has bolstered the nation's pension plans, helped in part by the country's massive sovereign wealth fund.

«I have spent forty years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first,» Price said in the letter.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

Attempts by Monti's government to cut spending caused widespread public anger, boosting the support of populist parties in the election.

The conservative Koch network plans to spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million to influence politics and public policy over the next two years, intensifying its nationwide efforts in the initial years of Donald Trump's presidency.

In his new bestseller, The Next Decade, Friedman argues that capital shortages, the impending down cycle in U.S. military spending and an aging population that drains public coffers mean the arrival of the next wave of «truly transformative» technologies will be delayeIn his new bestseller, The Next Decade, Friedman argues that capital shortages, the impending down cycle in U.S. military spending and an aging population that drains public coffers mean the arrival of the next wave of «truly transformative» technologies will be delayein U.S. military spending and an aging population that drains public coffers mean the arrival of the next wave of «truly transformative» technologies will be delayed.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

In addition, government spending on public infrastructure had boosted non-mining business investment and was likely to support economic growth for some time.

Groups like The Innocence Project have spent years helping to bring stories of the wrongfully - imprisoned to the public's attention — sometimes resulting in exoneration.

It is also fair to point out that this move continues a three - or four - year long period in which the biggest public cloud providers got bigger by virtue of massive spending on their own data center infrastructure and smaller players scrambled to stay relevant.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

In an interview, Bullard says he believes the Fed risks losing credibility with the public by ignoring the prices of goods that account for a substantial share of household spending.

This is because the province has accumulated a large public debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.