Sentences with phrase «total public borrowing»

The party's leader Nick Clegg told a conference rally in Bournemouth they had to be «realistic» about the promise to abolish tuition fees, as new figures out today show total public borrowing has risen above # 800bn for the first time.

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To put this number into context, the total Treasury debt held by the public today is about $ 15 trillion; a $ 5 trillion revenue shortfall would by itself require federal borrowing equal to one - third of the debt currently in the hands of the public.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund today sounded the alarm on excessive global borrowing, warning that with a total of $ 164 trillion owed, the world's public and private sectors are deeper in debt than at the height of the financial crisis a decade ago.

The fall in the total public sector borrowing requirement over the same period has been somewhat larger, reflecting significant consolidation by State governments, partly offset by smaller surpluses of public trading enterprises.

(a) Expanding the Green Investment Bank's scale and remit as fast as possible, including relaxing the restriction on its ability to borrow before total public sector debt begins to fall.

ALBANY — Public authorities in New York have been on a borrowing binge — racking up $ 267 billion in total debt or $ 13,487 for every resident of the state, according to a report released Thursday.

With public borrowing planned to reach 57 per cent of GDP and David Cameron abandoning his party's link with the government's total spending plans, politics had just got interesting again.

Speaking at a public lecture titled, «The State of the Ghanaian Economy — A Foundation of Concrete or Straw», chaired by Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Dr. Bawumia revealed that, the total cost of infrastructure from loans, grants and taxes from 2009 to date, is around 7 billion dollars, whereas government has borrowed in excess of 39 billion dollars.

It lasted 55 minutes - forecast public borrowing will total # 149bn this year and raised VAT to 20 per cent - as Chancellor George Osborne hit the Commons dispatch box 85 times.

DiNapoli called for a host of reforms to curtail state borrowing, including a constitutional amendment to limit total debt to 5 % of New York's personal income and a ban on so - called back - door borrowing — the issuance of state - funded debt through public authorities and other entities.

Most student loan borrowers consider refinancing public and private student loans in an effort to reduce the total cost of borrowing for their education by way of the interest rate.