Sentences with phrase «one's fiscal targets»

But he went farther and announced a new fiscal target for the federal government — reducing the federal debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio to 25 per cent by 2021.

Therefore, you have little control over fiscal targets such as the annual budgetary balance and debt.

Setting specific fiscal targets is a very dangerous game to get into.

It said it convinced creditors to accept less ambitious fiscal targets for the next couple of years.

The revenue figure is tied in with another important fiscal target: how much lawmakers can increase state aid to public schools.

Since 2006, the Harper Government has set a number of fiscal targets, none of which have been met.

- Making sure ordinary people do not carry the burden of meeting fiscal targets and ensuring those with the broadest shoulders bear their fair share.

Since the 2008 - 2009 recession, the Minister of Finance has abandoned the setting of any explicit fiscal target, with the exception of stating that the budget will be balanced over the medium term.

This would re-enforce the credibility of the announced fiscal targets.

For the last few budgets, the Minister of Finance has included an «adjustment for risk», in order to ensure that the annual fiscal targets are met.

To this end, the Government, in its Speech from the Throne, set out a number of new fiscal targets.

Deficit elimination is no longer a short - term fiscal target for the Liberal government, but a «long term» issue.

One way to quantify the country's long - term fiscal situation is by measuring its fiscal gap, or the amount of non-interest deficit reduction needed each year to achieve a given fiscal target.

«France's fiscal policy flexibility is limited, which, together with the policy challenges noted above, imply a continued risk of missing fiscal targets,» the firm added.

In short, the Liberals would have to ditch almost their entire platform to hit their own stated fiscal targets.

So the Conservatives need to spell out substantially more detail of how they will deliver the overall fiscal targets they have set themselves.»

Regarding old measures, the Greek Government had to revise its promise to cancel many of the austerity measures it heavily criticized since 2010 as an opposition party, agreeing to «refrain from any rollback of measures and unilateral changes to the policies and structural reforms that would negatively impact fiscal targets, economic recovery or financial stability, as assessed by the institutions.»

The more Greece cuts, the more the economy sinks, making it harder to meet fiscal targets.

The statement further argued S&P «overlooks the Greek government's pledges to achieve its fiscal targets for 2011 and to accelerate privatizations.»

More and more nations could choose to defy Brussels and go their own way on immigration policy, fiscal targets, and business regulation, rendering the already troubled union even more fractured and dysfunctional.

The IMF is now recommending that the Greek government be given more time to achieve its fiscal targets.

It appears that Minister Flaherty has realized, what other Ministers of Finance practiced in the past, to under promise and over deliver on his fiscal targets.

Prior to 2006, the Liberal Government included a $ 3 billion Contingency Reserve in its fiscal projections to help ensure that its fiscal targets would be met.

Sixth, the Department will often adjust the average private sector forecasts to introduce «prudence» in order to enhance the possibility of the fiscal targets being met.

These fiscal targets are in reality quite meaningless.

Given the Government's track record in meeting its fiscal targets to date, one has to wonder why Mr. Harper decided to set another one.

Given their experience in meeting the fiscal targets they have set since 2006 — none of which have been met to date — one would have thought that they would have learned their lesson.

This would imply that the government's fiscal target of a declining debt - to - GDP is at risk.

Any medium - term fiscal forecast should reflect these risks in order to ensure that its fiscal targets are met.

The inclusion of prudence helps to ensure that the fiscal target (s) set by the government will be met, if not somewhat bettered.

However, in the Fall Update, the Finance Minister was ambivalent on what his fiscal target (s) actually are.

Greek stocks rose as much as 3.6 percent 1:18 p.m. in Athens Tuesday after jumping 9 percent in the first trading session of the week when the government submitted new proposals addressing the areas of pensions, sales taxes and fiscal targets that had proven the chief barriers to a deal.

Greek government bonds and stocks rose Tuesday, extending a rally sparked by hopes of an imminent deal after Tsipras's government submitted the new proposals addressing the areas of pensions and fiscal targets that had proven the chief barriers to a deal.

We can allow the automatic stabilisers to operate freely and we have already used the flexibility in our fiscal targets to extend the timetable of consolidation.

The opposition parties have not even set out their fiscal targets clearly.

His commitment to run a surplus on capital and current spending in the next parliament was challenged by Labour, who said Osborne had failed to meet his two fiscal targets in this parliament.

Government borrowing is up, the fiscal targets set by the chancellor only in June are going to be missed, growth is flat lining, unemployment is ballooning and there is a crisis of confidence in business and consumer spending.

Bell added: «Even if you did not go ahead with any of the tax credit changes in April, the chancellor would still meet all his fiscal targets by the end of the parliament because he has # 10bn headroom in 2019 - 20 to meet his surplus rule and it would not stop debt falling.»

Johnson said phasing in the reforms over three years would have «very little effect» on the government's fiscal target of achieving budget balance by the end of the decade.

Ghana needs to improve revenue collection and can't keep reducing spending on capital items to achieve its fiscal targets, the...

These layoffs might not necessarily mean fewer books; it may mean that each remaining editor's fiscal targets have increased ($ X becomes $ X+Y).

With flexible rate, lower price, and 0 percent down options, conventional loan programs like 30 - year or 15 - year fixed - rate mortgages do not always enable us to match our fiscal targets.

But what do they plan on doing with these «regular major updates,» and why will they contribute to its fiscal targets?

It also fell short of meeting the fiscal target that Cooper Union set last fall.

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