However, attempting to hit
a single year deficit / surplus target is extremely difficult, as it is influenced by many factors outside the control of the government, most notably by economic developments.
Not exact matches
For five
years, they have had to live with spending restraint and to focus on the
single most important priority for the Government — to get rid of the
deficit by 2015 - 16.
If you want to understand why the federal government has clocked
deficits in every
single year since the 2008/09 financial crisis, save one (2015), and why there won't be another black - ink budget until at least the mid-2020s, look at the pre-budget picture with Finance Minister Bill Morneau where he changes his shoes.
When the transfer is excluded, as we show in the document, the
deficit also falls from 7.9 pc last
year to 7.7 pc this
year, then 6.9 pc next
year and falls in every
single year after.
But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a
single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this
year the UK
deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget
deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.
You see in «theory» the
deficit of $ 50 million the legislature had three
years ago and which was expected to be safely handled with a double digit increase in County Taxes has, in «practice», nearly tripled after several
years of double digit tax increases and can now in «theory» be controlled with low
single digit tax increases and no cuts in government expenditures.
Amid the current, quite serious concerns about the federal
deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury — as if saving one - tenth of 1 percent of a
single year's budget would solve our problems.
In almost 100
years of weight loss research, we still haven't found a
single human that won't lose weight when they're in a caloric
deficit.
For many
years, pensions have been the
single largest driver of CPS's structural
deficit.
Investors have assumed that stocks can be properly valued on the basis of a
single year of earnings reflecting the benefit of massive fiscal
deficits, depressed household saving, and extraordinary monetary distortion — when the more relevant long - term stream of earnings will enjoy far less benefit.
All sounds great, but this completely ignores the (totally un --RRB- exceptional charges being expensed every
single year, the increasing levels of capex, the continuing & quixotic acquisition spree in the US (believe me, $ 200 mio of pro-forma US revenues does not make you a player there), and let's not forget the whopping GBP 116 mio net pension
deficit.
the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200
years, with
single year (2014) and accumulated moisture
deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry
years... In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record -LRB--14.55 cumulative PDSI), more extreme than longer (4 - to 9 -
year) droughts.
Group schemes made good the
deficit in
single premium income of Rs 1,845 crore compared to the previous
year, as the corporation managed to secure a premium of Rs 1,165 crore under
single premium plans.
Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive
deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3
years to be protective against symptoms of attention -
deficit disorder at age 7
years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and
deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a
single point in time.