Sentences with phrase «on public sector spending»

Birmingham City Council is shedding 2,000 jobs this year and with the purge on public sector spending and the impact on supporting businesses, redundant senior managers or those at risk, have got something to cheer about at last.

The initial stages of the Japanese recovery were heavily dependent on public sector spending, but evidence is now emerging that private demand has begun to grow.

Not exact matches

«Where we need innovation and where I think we are going to finally see social entrepreneurs spend more and more time is the public sector, because the big challenge that is facing every community on the planet is that government and public policy are not moving at the pace of technology or even meeting expectations of constituents,» says Blumenthal.

Spending on state and local government construction projects, which is the largest portion of the public sector segment, slipped 0.4 %.

Meanwhile, spending on research and development in the private sector has been increasing at a clip of 4.9 % a year since 2007, up from 4.1 % the decade prior, while public and private R&D as a share of GDP recently hit an all - time high.

OTTAWA — A five - year $ 50 - billion public infrastructure spending initiative would generate a return on investment to Canadians over the long term as high as $ 3.83 per dollar spent, trigger significant private sector investment and stimulate wage increases, according to a new study by an independent economic modelling firm.

Proponents of increased public spending refer repeatedly to our «starved public sector,» and they look to the potential peace dividend as an opportunity to return to liberal social programs fallen on lean days because of budget restrictions and the conservative social philosophy of the Reagan and Bush administrations.

Public sector spending on violence containment spending accounts for 10.8 % of GDP while private sector spending is 4.2 % of GDP.

Beginning on a kitchen table, he spent four years building the business into what is now the most successful public sector e-procurement exchange in Europe.

The story here is about a millionaire government axe - wielder who decided that the best way to spend # 40,000 of public money was on his own relationship who then orchestrated one of the most intensive attacks on the public sector since Thatcher.

First, over the next year, each Labour spending team will prepare a report on Public Service Reform and Re-Design setting out how we deliver better public services with less money, involving employees, charities, and the voluntary sector in our deliberations, as well as business and public provPublic Service Reform and Re-Design setting out how we deliver better public services with less money, involving employees, charities, and the voluntary sector in our deliberations, as well as business and public provpublic services with less money, involving employees, charities, and the voluntary sector in our deliberations, as well as business and public provpublic providers.

In recent years, for the sake of electoral advancement, the Labour Party has compromised on public spending, welfare, private sector involvement in public services, nationalisation, and so on.

First there are three critical problems with the structure of our economy - the dominance of government spending on recurrent expenses of a public service which employs only a small percentage of Nigerians; the dominance of our oil and gas sector (and until recently power) by an inefficient and corrupt public sector; and the structure of our financial sector which excludes Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises from financing and has been unable to provide mortgages and housing for the middle class.

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.

The quickest way to bring down the deficit would be to wage a war on waste in the public sector so that public spending is brought back under control once again.

Why is it spending so much money on artificial, unproductive state - sector jobs, that generate no economic return and are simply a drain on the public purse?

cut international development spending and Labour activists go completely ballistic cut ID cards and get attacked as soft on terror, having wasted billions and being weak cut public sector jobs and have a winter of discontent pull out of Afghanistan and really annoy the Americans

This was a catastrophic error as it has meant that the Tory narrative on the factors underlying the crisis — too much spending on a bloated public sector - has crystalized in the public consciousness and will be very hard to shift.

Public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike today in a row over pay, pensions, conditions, jobs and spending cuts.

Public sector workers are striking today over a row on pay, conditions, pensions and spending cuts.

It was not the kind of budget that Gordon Brown would have given — full of spending on public services aimed at propitiating the public sector unions... Alistair Darling may have delivered the budget but Lord Mandelson is its co-owner.»

Nick Clegg acknowledged Northern Ireland's reliance on public sector jobs makes it especially vulnerable to spending cuts in a speech in the province last night.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

After all, labor, especially the public - sector unions, spends big on politics — and also supplies legions of campaign workers to help its friends and fight its enemies.

Axing 490,000 public sector workers» jobs during the comprehensive spending review statement, he looked like he was on some kind of autoerotic high.

Oh, and the public - sector unions would be able to continue their campaign ground operations, which are of inestimable value, even as challengers would have to pay for every boot on the ground, eating into their spending cap.

Gov. Cuomo went on to explain how the government will spur private sector job growth and limit government spending by creating public / private sector partnerships that leverage state resources and assets to generate billions in economic growth.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

He and co-author Ben Jackson, an Oxford University lecturer, instead called on Mr Miliband to adopt a «patriotic, national growth appeal» which does not simply focus on «a simple defence of the public sector and public spending».

Ed Balls is accused of cynicism for an about turn on public spending but the shadow chancellor might just have saved Labour from being branded the party of the public sector.

A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

More than 200,000 public sector jobs have already been axed or are now on the line since the massive spending cuts began, research from GMB union showed today.

«Attacks on public sector pay and jobs will simply reduce spending power and further depress the economy at a time when investing in the public sector is essential to secure growth.

Threats to national pay structures are yet another unjustified attack on public sector workers and will hit spending power hard in the poorest areas of the country.

Depending on how the conservative - leaning court rules, the case could have a significant impact on the organizing and spending efforts by public - sector labor groups.

Contrast that with Mr Cable's clear demand that we must slash spending on public - sector pensions, cut back sharply on our global defence commitments and overhaul the ruinous tax credits system.

The watchdog recommended a significant increase despite the coalition government cutting spending and imposing austerity on the public sector.

The report says Ghana's current rating of B1, negative outlook is constrained by the ongoing weakness in the government's fiscal position due to ongoing spending overruns on the public - sector wage bill, high interest costs and the clearance of payment arrears.

«The bulk of the needed adjustments rests on revenue and spending management; not just for the sake of better public sector management, but to provide the enabling environment for private enterprise growth,» the economist stated.

Areas up for review include, for the first time, social security benefits, tax credits and public sector pensions, as well as departmental spending on public services.

arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

More than 200,000 public sector jobs have already been axed or are now on the line since the massive spending cuts began, research from GMB union showed on Sunday.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

A very good source tells ConHome that the unions have as much as # 25m to spend on campaigns to oppose cuts in the public sector workforce and in public sector pay.

The MPs» expenses scandal ended for our generation the argument that we could just trust the checks on spending within the public sector.

Research shows that swing voters broadly support social democrat views on the crucial questions of tax and spend, the size of the public sector and the provision of public services.

In the longer - term other Tory spending measures - such as action on public sector pay - will make today's measures sustainable.

Criticising the government's decision to tackle the deficit through cutting back on public spending, Mr Barber's alternative Plan B would tax higher earners more rather than targeting «the poorest and most vulnerable,» which, he argues, is what the current public sector cuts are doing.