Sentences with phrase «reducing public expenditure»

They concluded that the cuts were justified as the cuts were «still felt to be a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aim of reducing public expenditure».

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

«It is very hard to reduce public expenditure without impacting more on the poor than the well - off.

Not exact matches

They argue that «debt - service payments force governments to reduce public health expenditures -LSB-... and show that] each additional $ 40,000 of health spending is associated with one less infant death» in Africa (p. 82).

In line with the Ministry's goal of increasing the penetration of renewable energy in the energy mix and the promotion of distributed solar power for government and public buildings, the Ministry will embark on an MDA Solar Rooftop Programme dubbed «Government Goes Solar» to reduce Government's expenditure on utilities.

Before the general election, Labour pledged to not begin necessary public expenditure cuts until the economic recovery was secure so the pain would be reduced.

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.

«A majority of New Yorkers are willing to bite the higher tax bullet if national expenditures on programs like Medicaid and food stamps are reduced,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Some proposals aim at reducing coordination between campaigns and independent expenditure groups (Super PACs), others make it easier for candidates to run campaigns and simplify documentations requirements while also tightening restrictions on how public matching funds may be used.

A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Illinois at Chicago finds that Medicare Part D prescription coverage significantly reduced hospital admissions and program expenditures totaling $ 1.5 billion annually.

«As a public policy matter, you're not doing the nation a favor if you reduce the government's share, if the total expenditure is coming out of the U.S. economy,» says Lewis Branscomb, an adjunct professor at the University of California at San Diego.

How the burden can best be distributed among the levels of government and among revenue sources must be determined through political processes that weigh options for transitioning to and implementing a high - quality ECE system and the benefits of such a system against the potential political and economic costs of reducing other public expenditures or raising taxes.

It has been found that eight months after its introduction 19 % of participants were regular users of the public bicycle system, increased their weekly energy expenditure significantly and reduced their body mass index (BMI).

[13] First, complete reliance on public funding meant universities were under constant pressure to limit enrollments, reduce per - student expenditures, or both (with higher - achieving students, and more elite institutions, typically most insulated from these consequences).

For the prekindergarten program alone, they identified $ 92,220 in present value benefits and $ 8,512 in present value costs in 2007 dollars — a benefit - cost ratio of 10.83 to 1.22 The benefits derived mainly from reduced public education expenditures due to lower grade retention and use of special education, reduced costs to the criminal justice system and victims of crime due to lower crime rates, reduced expenditures on child welfare due to less child abuse and neglect, higher projected earnings of center participants, and increased income tax revenue due to projected higher lifetime earnings of center participants.

This brought cuts to public hospital funding and a proposal for a GP co-payment: hallmarks of policy measures geared around reducing health expenditure rather than impacts on people and what was best for the sustainability and effectiveness of the health system overall.

An analysis released today by the White House Council of Economic Advisers describes the economic returns to investments in early childhood education, including increased parental earnings and employment in the short - term, reduced need for remedial education and later public school expenditures, as well as long - term outcomes such as increased educational attainment, increased earnings, improved health, and decreased involvement with the criminal justice system.

This is believed to correspond with reduced expenditure on public campaigns, highlighting the need for a sustained and properly resourced anti-smoking focus over decades to make significant and consistent population health gains.