Sentences with phrase «reduce social expenditures»

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The Little Sun social business also helps improve off - grid livelihoods by reducing household expenditures on expensive lighting fuels and by supporting off - grid entrepreneurs who can sell the lamps in their communities, generating local profits.

Governments, harassed by the burden of debt service payments, reduce public expenditure on health and education and other social services to balance their budgets.

How could Party leaders be consistent with the values (fiscal restraint, social conservatism — e.g., high moral code) they have professed for 30 years and nominate someone with zero performance in reducing expenditures even on a local level, someone tainted by giving and receiving political favors as a Commissioner on the Port Authority, and someone linked for 20 years by business and marriage to mobster activities?

Welfare benefits reduced to 2006 levels, social welfare bill cut by equivalent to 1.5 % of public expenditure

So perhaps the Osborne and Cameron programme of reducing expenditure on public services will have more success in expanding the pool of «natural Tory voters» and further weakening Labour's social base.

Reducing pension payments merely increases poverty among the elderly, exacerbating ill health, which places additional requirements for social care and expenditure on the state.

Lord Bach's answers to questions were notable for his insistence that government policy is to reduce the amount of criminal legal aid and increase expenditure on social welfare law.

This means that reducing such discrimination will lbring social, economic and health benefits for Australians with disability and reduce welfare and health expenditure.

Attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 3 % — 5 % of children and young people under 18 years old.1 The core symptoms include inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity leading to significant impairments in academic and social function and increased risk of substance misuse, unemployment, criminality and mental health problems.2 3 Early treatment is crucial to improve symptoms and reduce the burden on the family and wider social and healthcare systems.4 With the increasing rates of diagnosis of ADHD, spending on ADHD medication has increased sevenfold between 1998 and 2005,5 and expenditure on medication treatment costs in the UK is now estimated at # 78 million per year.5 6 This has placed increasing financial burden on health services and highlighted the need for more efficient and cost - effective services to diagnose and treat the condition.

However, the goal for which the scale has been most widely used to date is to advocate for and influence prevention policies by highlighting crucial developmental factors that prevention programs should target to improve general health and reduce medical costs and social service expenditures.22, 43,44