Sentences with phrase «protecting social spending»

Mr. Speaker, based on our policy objective of ensuring macroeconomic stability, and growing the economy for job creation, whilst protecting social spending, the following macroeconomic targets are set for the 2018 fiscal year: • Overall GDP growth rate of 6.8 percent; • Non-oil GDP growth rate of 5.4 percent; • End period inflation rate of 8.9 percent; • Average inflation rate of 9.8 percent; • Fiscal deficit of 4.5 % percent GDP; • Primary balance (surplus) of 1.6 percent of GDP; and • Gross Foreign Assets to cover at least 3.5 months of imports of goods and services

The objectives of Ghana going to the IMF for the bailout was to restore debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability, to foster a return to high growth and job creation through agriculture, and infrastructure investment, while protecting social spending;

Not exact matches

The need for sustained fiscal consolidation that protects much - needed social spending and investment while ensuring stability also persists.»

For Republicans, the timing provides crucial leverage to force Democrats and the president to cut spending in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, expensive benefit programs that Democrats have long protected, despite escalating costs.

Retirees may view annuitized income from Social Security and employer pensions as their primary source of retirement spending and think of the retirement portfolio only as a reserve to protect against the unexpected.

He has focused on legislation and policy changes to support affordable housing, protect the environment, promote economic and social justice and a more humane society, prevent gun violence, create a fairer and more open political process, and provide for greater accountability in the ways government provides services and spends our tax dollars.

«I have spent a lot of time working to protect our Social Security system,» Kingson said.

«I have spent a lot of time working to protect our Social Security system,» Kingson told syracuse.com in June.

A coalition of the state's top nonprofit social - service providers presented Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday with a plan for protecting funds for their neediest clients while reducing public spending, and asked for seats on his transition committee.

Warren, meanwhile, praised the budget bill's increase in spending on social programs but lamented the fact that it doesn't protect the Dreamers.

Thinking that you can't protect something you don't understand, he then spent his summer traveling to the parks in danger and using social media to build an «army of 4th graders» to sign on to his petition.

WASHINGTON — Several members of the Congressional committees that oversee social - service spending last week criticized education lobbyists here for using what one member termed «pressure tactics» to protect education funding increases.

Note that while Social Security is the winner in that it protects you from all three risks, it only covers, on average, 40 % of someone's retirement spending.

But if you have other reliable income sources from outside your investments — Social Security and pension and so forth — then your lifestyle is not as exposed to if your portfolio declines in value, you could potentially spend at a higher rate, and enjoy that money, it's more discretionary in nature for you, because you do have your lifestyle protected in other ways.

Health service resources spent on children with conduct disorder are considerable: 30 % of child consultations with general practitioners are for behaviour problems, 8 and 45 % of community child health referrals are for behaviour disturbances - with an even higher level at schools for children with special needs and in clinics for children with developmental delay, where challenging behaviour is a common problem.9 Psychiatric disorders are present in 28 % of paediatric outpatient referrals.10 Social services departments expend a lot of effort trying to protect disruptive children whose parents can no longer cope without hitting or abusing them.

My reform plan includes no reduction in benefits for retirees or those nearing retirement; the setting aside of $ 2 trillion over the next decade to protect the fund; and the creation of a «lock box» to make sure Social Security funds are not spent on anything else.