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If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Perth company director Sharon Warburton has been named as the incoming chair of a soon - to - be-established federal government fund that will have $ 5 billion to spend on infrastructure in northern Australia.

Not exact matches

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.

President Donald Trump is slated to speak about his $ 200 billion infrastructure plan in Ohio on Thursday, in his first public appearance since begrudgingly signing a $ 1.3 trillion spending package last week.

«GDP growth is now much more reliant on tourism and the government's infrastructure spending,» he wrote in a Nov. 28 report.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastruInfrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructureinfrastructure program.

That in turn depends on agreeing how much the U.K. owes for past and future commitments to EU spending, from infrastructure projects to the pensions of former EU bureaucrats.

In addition, a lot of money has been spent on infrastructure, but a huge number of projects have been stalled — India has more than $ 500 billion in nonproductive infrastructure assets, including unfinished roads and bridgeIn addition, a lot of money has been spent on infrastructure, but a huge number of projects have been stalled — India has more than $ 500 billion in nonproductive infrastructure assets, including unfinished roads and bridgein nonproductive infrastructure assets, including unfinished roads and bridges.

It recouped $ 2.1 million in insurance money but has spent $ 2.3 million on repairs and upgrades to existing infrastructure, to make sure another storm of equivalent power won't wreak similar havoc on the enterprise.

Capital spending on major mining, energy and infrastructure projects in Australia is set to drop more than 60 per cent over the next three years, according to analysis by ANZ Banking Group.

Research firm IDC says worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is on track to reach $ 277 billion in 2021, up from $ 160 billion in 2018.

Three initiatives tied for most popular among the CEOs: increasing the income eligible for the reduced small business tax rate to $ 500,000 from $ 400,000, extending the capital cost allowance on investment in manufacturing, and the $ 12 billion committed to infrastructure spending.

This is further evidence that telecom players have a tough time competing in the massive public cloud space, where Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spend multiple billions of dollars a year on key infrastructure.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

Update: The Microsoft press release notes the new French data center facilities will come online in 2017 and that Microsoft has spent $ 3 billion on European cloud infrastructure to date.

For years, the Republican majority in Congress blocked President Barack Obama from spending billions of dollars on infrastructure.

The company's top managers also told analysts in a conference call late Thursday that 2018 would be difficult too, due not least to spending on Cloud - based infrastructure and services, along with marketing efforts.

On the negative side, the push for infrastructure spending and barriers to trade could result in a serious uptick in inflation.

There are also growing doubts on the size and scope of fiscal stimulus the Trump administration may inject into the U.S. economy with campaign promises on tax reform, financial regulation rollbacks and infrastructure spending either still on the drawing board or facing hurdles in Congress.

The combination of lower corporate taxes and lower personal taxes, plus the plan to spend a significantly larger amount on infrastructure, could cause a blow - out in the nation's debt.

Whether those rate hikes come to fruition will depend in part on the shape of fiscal policy and any stimulus measures — tax cuts, infrastructure spending — enacted by President - elect Trump and the incoming Congress.

Most likely places where the money would be spent include upgrades on infrastructure, which President Obama, in his State of the Union address last week, mentioned as one of his top priorities in his remaining two years in office.

President Donald Trump's infrastructure agenda, unveiled on August 15, centered on rescinding Obama - era plans to require consideration of flood risk and climate change in any federal spending for infrastructure or housing and the like.

The federal Liberals came to power a year ago in large part on their promise to invest $ 120 billion in infrastructure over the next decade, essentially doubling Ottawa's spending from the previous 10 years.

Republican businessman - turned - politician Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, has promised tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending that he says will boost economic growth.

Trudeau came to power in 2015, a year when growth sagged to 0.9 percent, partly by pledging new deficit spending on infrastructure and family tax cuts to prop up the economy.

In addition, government spending on public infrastructure had boosted non-mining business investment and was likely to support economic growth for some time.

As part of his discussion with Maurer, he also explained how the rise of technology is breeding uncertainty in the workforce, and weighed in on the importance of infrastructure spending.

It is also fair to point out that this move continues a three - or four - year long period in which the biggest public cloud providers got bigger by virtue of massive spending on their own data center infrastructure and smaller players scrambled to stay relevant.

As Scotiabank mentioned in a note last week: «Higher interest rates are going to make the burden of refinancing the debt considerably heavier, and as more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.»

Much of the leveraging occurred in emerging markets, specifically China, which is spending big on international infrastructure projects.

In contrast, spending on public infrastructure, such as transportation systems, that benefit not only the current generation but future ones as well, should also be paid for not just by current generation but also by future generations who will also use them.

The rationale was that stimulus spending should get in and out of the economic bloodstream pretty quickly, so you need to find «shovel - ready» infrastructure projects that don't go on for too long.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese economic activity rebounded in August, driven by government spending on infrastructure and rising property taxes.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

«There's been much buying on the promise of tax reform, regulatory relief and infrastructure spending, yet the details and the timing remain unclear,» Dietze said in a note to clients last week.

We have argued in previous articles that spending by governments on public infrastructure that would provide services to Canadians for many decades in the future is not the same as spending by governments on programs and services that only benefit current generations.

Many analysts are referring to this as the «Modi effect,» in honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, elected two years ago on promises to reinvigorate business growth by cutting red tape and increasing infrastructure spending.

His NDP budget keeps a lid on spending in some areas, stretches out infrastructure plans an extra year or two, yet keeps the scalpel off any programs in a way that would have helped wrestle down the deficit further than the $ 300 million Ceci's budget proposes.

Professor Scarthe also recommends that, once the deficit is eliminated in 2015 - 16, any future government should gradually start creating a deficit by, for example, spending on infrastructure and this could be done while at the same time maintaining a stable debt to GDP ratio of around 25 per cent over the medium to longer term.

In contrast, there are considerable opportunities to find savings on the revenue side to finance infrastructure spending.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

Adding more infrastructure spending could put more pressure on state budgets — including in New York.

Early in the year, investors bought on the hope of potential infrastructure spending, tax cuts and a reduction of regulations across a wide swath of industries.

Since the November election, in fact, the company has gained more than 44 percent on optimism over President Trump's pledge to spend $ 1 trillion on U.S. infrastructure.

The IRS overpaid nearly $ 3.5 billion in Obamacare tax credits last year that it can not recoup because of constraints built into the program, frustrating Republicans who have failed to repeal the health care law but say that money could have been spent on programs for veterans or infrastructure.

Minister Flaherty had done an excellent job of pre-conditioning on what to expect: a commitment to eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16; no new «risky» spending; some funding for infrastructure and skills training; and further restraint measures to offset revenue losses due to slower economic growth in 2013.

In the 2015 election, Trudeau ran on an economic platform that touted deficit - financed infrastructure spending and a boost in federal benefits for families with kidIn the 2015 election, Trudeau ran on an economic platform that touted deficit - financed infrastructure spending and a boost in federal benefits for families with kidin federal benefits for families with kids.