Sentences with phrase «lower public debt»

The deficit improves by $ 0.4 billion in 2011 - 12, increasing slowly to $ 1.2 billion by 2015 - 16, as somewhat higher revenues and lower public debt charges more the offset higher program expenses.

Most of the year - over-year improvement in the deficit was due to higher revenues, up $ 7.5 billion and lower public debt charges (down $ 1.9 billion).

Total expenses were slightly higher (up $ 0.1 billion as higher program expenses (up $ 0.9 billion) offset lower public debt charges (down $ 0.8 billion).

The improvement in the current fiscal results was due to higher revenues and lower public debt charges, which more than offset higher program expenses.

Politicians ask the public to accept sacrifice (new taxes, new regulations) in exchange for a happy conclusion (lower public debt, a clean environment).

Around the region, secularly rising incomes, generally healthy banking systems and relatively low public debt levels allow considerable room for confidence of a sustained expansion in demand.

Not exact matches

Concurrent with this orgy of public debt, the State encourages massive expansion of private credit via fractional lending, low bank reserves, and other forms of leverage, in a vain attempt to stimulate demand in an economy burdened with overcapacity, declining employment, marginal return on capital and saturated markets.

The capital also has the lowest percent of debt in the country tied up in auto loans (3.35 percent), probably due to the accessible public transportation available in the area.

There has been a public debate about whether Canadians will have sufficient income in retirement given that generally people live longer, that there are more people of retirement age and that savings rates are low debt levels high.

Public debt charges were down $ 200 million or 0.7 per cent due mainly to a lower average effective interest rate.

«The public funds, at least in Pennsylvania, are structured to enable the bank to make a loan that they might not be able to make without the public debt behind them by enhancing the loan - to - value, reducing the risk to [the bank], and then passing on some benefits [to the borrower] in the form of lower interest rates, which help cash - flow issues.»

With interest rates lower than projected in the March 2012 Budget, public debt charges are correspondingly lower.

I have long been a strong advocate of debt - financed public investment in the context of low interest rates and a decaying US infrastructure, so I was glad to see Mr Trump emphasise it.

Thereafter, the downward adjustments to budgetary revenues more than offset the downward adjustments to total expenses, the latter primarily due to the lower outlook for interest rates on public debt charges.

Public debt charges, given the current lower outlook for interest rates, could come in lower than expected as well.

Public debt charges were $ 141 million lower -LRB--0.6 %), largely reflecting lower CPI adjustments on Real Return Bonds.

Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.

The ready availability of low - cost debt should allow them to compete with the public markets, and a tentative increase in primary deals has bolstered the market's cautious optimism.

They are to pay for their rising debt service not by taxing the population, but by selling public assets to the financial, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors — the very sectors which are receiving the growing interest payments on the national debts resulting from lowering taxes on wealth.

The higher - than - expected deficit forecast in 2014 - 15 and lower - than - forecast surpluses thereafter primarily result from lower personal income taxes and EI premium revenues and higher public debt charges, offset somewhat by higher - than - forecast corporate income tax revenues and lower EI benefits.

The net impact of the slightly more positive economic forecast is to lower the deficit by $ 0.9 billion in 2010 - 11 from their November 2010 Update, primarily due to the impact of lower - than - forecast interest rates on public debt charges.

That doesn't mean public debt isn't important, although low interest rates have rendered it more manageable than expected in recent years.

Based on the financial results for the first seven months of 2016 - 17, public debt charges could be as much as $ 1 billion lower than forecast in the Update, while direct program expenses could be at least $ 2 billion lower.

Based on the financial results for the first nine months of 2016 - 17, public debt charges could be as much as $ 1 billion lower than forecast in the Update, while direct program expenses could be at least $ 2 billion lower.

The remainder reflects somewhat higher revenues (difficult to assess which components as the «adjustment for risk» was spread among the major revenue components) and lower employment insurance benefits, other transfer payments and public debt charges.

«Before the crisis, public debt was fairly low, and while private debt — and in particular mortgage debt — was a problem, private sector deleveraging is happening quickly.»

Public debt charges were slightly lower.

Finally, for some time the Finance Department has been engaged in a strategy of locking into long - term debt at historical low interest rates, thereby minimizing the impact of higher interest rates on public debt charges.

Today the USA has created one of the largest debts ever recorded, both the public and private sector are heavily indebted, and much of that debt was created while global central banks were keeping rates at record lows over the last decade.

However, program expenses and public debt charges could also be lower.

Public debt charges are expected to be about $ 0.4 billion lower than that forecast in the FES.

Public debt charged were $ 1.3 billion (5.2 %) lower.

Given historically low long - term interest rates, the government has considerable fiscal flexibility to undertake key public investments, while maintaining a falling debt to GDP ratio.

Public debt charges were $ 506 million lower (2.7 %), largely reflecting lower CPI adjustments on Real Return Bonds.

The Nordic local government funding agencies — set up to provide low cost and stable funding for public investments in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden — are amongst Europe's most creditworthy and important issuers of SSA debt.

Public debt charges were $ 1.2 billion lower (4.7 %).

Budgetary revenues are expected to be $ 5.0 billion higher than forecast in the April 2017 Budget, program expenses $ 3.1 billion higher and public debt charges $ 0.4 billion lower.

The decline to date in public debt charges of $ 1.4 billion (8.9 %) largely reflects lower average effective interest rates and lower inflation adjustments on Real Return Bonds.

Budgetary reveues were up $ 4.1 billion, public debt charges were marginally lower, while program expenses increased by $ 5.4 billion.

Public debt charges, given the current lower outlook for interest rates, could also come in lower than expected as well.

Its purpose is to offer low - paid public service workers some relief from their student loan debt.

The presidential vote of confidence for Powell reflects the White House and Treasury's desire for low interest rates to fund the public debt and support high asset prices, as well as the probability that the Senate will quickly confirm the nominee.

IMPROVING DEBT AND LIABILITY MANAGEMENT • A maiden 15 - year domestic bond was issued to lengthen maturity profile of public debt; • The Domestic Debt re-profiling exercise which contributed to improving the debt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditiDEBT AND LIABILITY MANAGEMENT • A maiden 15 - year domestic bond was issued to lengthen maturity profile of public debt; • The Domestic Debt re-profiling exercise which contributed to improving the debt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditiDEBT AND LIABILITY MANAGEMENT • A maiden 15 - year domestic bond was issued to lengthen maturity profile of public debt; • The Domestic Debt re-profiling exercise which contributed to improving the debt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditidebt; • The Domestic Debt re-profiling exercise which contributed to improving the debt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditidebt; • The Domestic Debt re-profiling exercise which contributed to improving the debt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditiDebt re-profiling exercise which contributed to improving the debt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditiDebt re-profiling exercise which contributed to improving the debt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditidebt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditidebt mix and lowered domestic interest payments will be continued; and • The next phase of the liability management programme will include: o External debt re-profiling based on market conditidebt re-profiling based on market conditidebt re-profiling based on market conditions.

The strategies for achieving these broad macroeconomic objectives include the following: • Promoting inclusive growth without compromising fiscal consolidation; • Anchoring fiscal policy on reducing the fiscal deficit to low and sustainable levels, sufficient to reduce the overall public debt burden; • Strengthening the inflation targeting regime and pursuing complementary monetary policy to promote monetary discipline; and • Pursuing complementary external sector policies to ensure exchange rate stability and favourable current account balance.

Although most of the Eastern EU Member States have a relatively low level of public debt and their economies are back on the growth path, in Hungary and Poland the EU has become increasingly associated with unpopular immigration policies (which mostly benefit Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants).

It was there in the Budget, but blink and you'd have missed Darling's insistent note that not undergoing his public borrowing «would lead in the end to higher, not lower, debt».

In this conversation, she describes her «Green New Deal» platform, explains why she thinks that spending more public dollars could actually lower the nation's debt in the long run, and contends that only the Greens are offering real solutions to the environmental challenges facing the nation and the world.

But the IEA's new priorities — aggressively paying down public debt, cutting taxes on the better - off, leaving the EU, relaxing planning laws to promote housebuilding, paving over the railways and tackling the «cost of living crisis» through lower excise duties — can expect a more lukewarm response from the re-installed treasury team.

«We start from a low base in public debt,» he adds.

In its 2012 National Survey on Credit Card Debt in Low - and Middle - Income Households, a survey of low and middle - income American households carrying credit card debt, the public advocacy organization Demos found that among unemployed survey respondents, 1 in 4 recalledthat a potential employer had requested to check their credit report as part of a job applicatDebt in Low - and Middle - Income Households, a survey of low and middle - income American households carrying credit card debt, the public advocacy organization Demos found that among unemployed survey respondents, 1 in 4 recalledthat a potential employer had requested to check their credit report as part of a job applicatiLow - and Middle - Income Households, a survey of low and middle - income American households carrying credit card debt, the public advocacy organization Demos found that among unemployed survey respondents, 1 in 4 recalledthat a potential employer had requested to check their credit report as part of a job applicatilow and middle - income American households carrying credit card debt, the public advocacy organization Demos found that among unemployed survey respondents, 1 in 4 recalledthat a potential employer had requested to check their credit report as part of a job applicatdebt, the public advocacy organization Demos found that among unemployed survey respondents, 1 in 4 recalledthat a potential employer had requested to check their credit report as part of a job application.