Sentences with phrase «social infrastructure spending»

Non-financial assets are defined as expenditures on any construction - related work, from road repairs and maintenance jobs, to local parks and buildings, to social infrastructure spending such as schools, kindergartens or hospitals.

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and sersocial spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and serSocial Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

So Mr. Bernanke's favored policy is to get banks lending again — not for the government to spend more on deficit spending on infrastructure, social services or other full employment projects.

Credit is a form of infrastructure, and such public investment is what enabled the United States to undersell foreign economies in the 19th and 20th centuries despite its high wage levels and social spending programs.

The union and anti-poverty activists who spoke to The Tyee for this article were unanimous in echoing calls from the CLC and the CCPA's Lee for increased infrastructure and social spending in Canada.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

The deceleration is likely to result from a reduction in government spending on infrastructure and social welfare to moderate the fiscal deficit, he explains.

The # 25bn a year for infrastructure investment, # 8bn over the next Parliament for social care and yesterday's pledges on education spending were all more or less as expected.

And we have stayed true to that vision, even as oil prices went into freefall, we ramped up investments in infrastructure, as well as our social spending.»

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;

After a year of mostly verbal sparring between New York City officials and the president, the Trump administration's plans to scale back infrastructure plans and social spending and an immigration crackdown are poised to hit New York — the president's home state — where it hurts.

President Trump unveiled a new $ 4.4 trillion budget proposal Monday that boosts spending for the military, homeland security and infrastructure while imposing cuts to social - welfare programs.

There can be no departure from the old order unless the prime minister recognises the economic and social need for higher revenue spending as well as glossy infrastructure investment.

«We have spent these last four years investing in bringing the social infrastructure back to scratch and when I win the second term, then we will start putting money in your pocket.

Speaking at the Inauguration of a one of the Community Day Senior High Schools at Kwaobaah Nyanoa in the Eastern Region, Mahama argued that his first four years in office was spent on improving the social infrastructure of the country which has been in dire need of a face - lift for some time now.

With an aging population placing increasing demands on entitlement programs like Social Security, and likely federal spending increases for defense and infrastructure programs, budgets for scientific research could come under intense pressure.

Failing to appreciate the salience of social infrastructure and the irrationality of the organizational environment, both liberals and conservatives have spent a lot of time pursuing questions of limited utility... In hindsight, we would have done better had we given more attention to trying to figure out how to implement anything under such inauspicious circumstances.»

Aside from any profit to be realized in infrastructure investment, the corporate world has every interest in freeing us of our driving chores so we can spend more time chalking up incremental charges shopping, blabbing, and social networking.

I don't see how a heavily indebted nation is going to both cut taxes and increase military and infrastructure spending; even deep cuts in entitlement programs (social security?

Making his initial mark with landscape portraits of the US intelligence buildings and the various infrastructures that are used to conduct their mass surveillance programs, Paglen has been documenting the digital space for many years now, creating abstract photography and multimedia pieces surrounding themes of data freedom and the social issues arising from lives increasingly spent online.

Well then, is it responsible to spent billions of dollars, disrupt the economy, paralize developing nations and divert resources from other far more certain problems — infrastructure collapse, public health, funding social welfare programs, when more volcanos might be lurking?

The company revealed at its launch event that it will spend «in excess of R15 - million on staff, equipment, infrastructure and technology over the next year» to meet the growing demand on social media.