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The staggering growth rates of this year's Fast 50 — the average of the top five was a record - smashing 43,000 % — reflects how high - tech startups have evolved in the face of austerity.
Speaking exclusively to CNBC in Lisbon, Centeno promised to bring a fresh approach to policymaking after years of austerity.
Austerity measures imposed earlier this year include $ 65 billion ($ 80 billion) in spending cuts and tax increases by the end of 2014.
Lower oil prices should put more money in the pockets of consumers already emerging from years of self - imposed austerity, says Richardson.
Already in Brazil, the region's biggest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is starting to roll out a more conservative message of austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits, to tame a record budget deficit widened by the biggest economic slowdown in 25 years.
But to the government's credit, it has hit most of its spending targets in the first few years of the austerity program Flaherty.
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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Even with austerity programs in place, the eurozone's collective budget deficit this year will exceed 4.5 % of GDP.
As well, Flaherty cut in half an Employment Insurance premium hike scheduled for Jan. 1, a move that will cost Ottawa $ 600 million a year, but will leave that cash in the pockets of workers and companies — a shift from deficit - shrinking austerity to stimulus.
Five years of failed austerity policies in Greece and a total breakdown in trust between the leftwing Syriza alliance and the political leaders of its creditors climaxed in a national vote in which Greeks said no to the spending cuts and tax increases demanded by its lenders...
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.
The summary of their stats for Ontario, in the 11 - year period, 1998 to 2009, was as follows: Private sector: Arbitrated settlements: 28 (50,828 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Non-arbitrated settlements: 1,877 (1,658,929 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Public sector: Arbitrated settlements: 407 (282,903 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Non-arbitrated settlements: 2,842 (2,875,878 employees) average annual increase: 2.7 % This says nothing, of course, of the base from which those increases were granted, particularly after the public sector austerity in Ontario during the 1990s.
Given also the need for an austerity budget to comply with European rules, growth is likely to weaken, meaning the protest parties will continue to strengthen and may well be strong enough to take over in a couple of years.
If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhereIn 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewherein countries elsewhere).
European equities have garnered a fair share of attention lately as leading indicators suggest economies in the region are starting to recover from years of crisis and austerity - induced recessions.
She was speaking after Eurozone leaders agreed to give Greece a third bailout package of up to $ 86bn over the next three years, in exchange for further austerity and reforms.
«Verily, O Gargi, if one performs sacrifices and worships and undergoes austerity in this world for many thousands of years, but without knowing that Imperishable, limited indeed is that (work) of his.
Australian winemakers might have to wait until 2015 to see a return to growth in China after Pernod Ricard, the world's second - biggest drinks group and owner of Jacob's Creek, warned that beverage sales were flat since the Lunar New Year as an austerity drive and crackdown on luxury gift giving kept glasses empty.
People hate been told about the 10 years of «austerity» but the proof is there and out in the open, how much was spent, what players were sold and the close to zero net spend.
There was a notable period of austerity when they weren't quite the Yankees, but they've always been above - average, even in the down years.
our greatest asset and the only thing i can agree with usmanov is that we have used his best years for a miserable austerity task for which the rest of owners / board were happy to watch him run it prudently but without facing to the reality that at some stage they will need ot back him aggressively either in transfers or with media / refs.
Those words of fact just puts a huge question mark on what the manager led us to believe in all those years of «austerity».
You tore into Wenger for doing the same when all football logic told you that Arsenal should have at least once in the 10 years of financial austerity have dropped to mid table or worse.
«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.
The gloomy headlines about life in austerity have become all too familiar reading over recent years, but what have the pressures on household budgets really meant for family life, and could some of the long - term impacts have been hidden from view behind the front door?
The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.
Today he will probably say it starts now, so in reality he's announcing eight years of austerity.
Treasury sources suggested international organisations had recommended extending the government's austerity drive for an extra year would be more effective in retaining the confidence of the markets.
One of the most forceful indicators of this is that the period of austerity being administered, seven years, is simply unprecedented in its length and severity.
Shockingly, the UK political establishment looks poised to loosen further what already looks like a very lax fiscal regime, at a time not only of straitened public finances and austerity (and a high burden of personal taxation), but also of extraordinarily high petroleum prices (2011 was the first year in history when the international price of crude averaged over 100 dollars per barrel, 2012 was the second, 2013 the third, and 2014 looks dead set to be the fourth).
Yet in recent years, it has become a symbol of austerity, stagnation and conflict.
Change comes to those with the courage to will it; 20 years from now let people say this great generation created a decade not of austerity, but shared prosperity, not of conflict, but of peace, not of inequality and climate chaos, but of sustainable development in the interests of all.
Instead of living in a country with a (albeit slowly) growing economy, Greeks now face at least three more years of the harshest austerity yet.
But when there are still millions of people in this country living in poverty, and when the age of austerity means we must focus on the real priorities can we honestly say it's right for people earning over # 50,000 a year to get state benefits in the form of tax credits?
He points out the «deal» Osborne offered voters in 2010 was four years of austerity.
On 4 January 2011, the current chancellor, George Osborne introduced a 20 % rate — a centrepiece of the coalition's austerity drive — meaning in 40 years the tax rate on goods and services sold in the UK has doubled.
Hammond has loosened Osborne's fiscal rules, but he will press ahead with most of the pre-planned austerity measures — though the tax credits rebellion forced the government to promise not to look for fresh savings from the welfare bill in future years.
«He is also insulting the millions of people in our country who have suffered these last eight years due to this Tory austerity agenda he devised.»
The Shadow Chancellor will call for a Budget that deals with the growing emergency faced by working families and our vital public services, which have been left in crisis after seven years of Tory austerity.
Fred Floss, director of the union - backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than two percent a year, would result in what his group calls a decade of austerity that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.
Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: «After eight years of Tory misrule, most people thoroughly tired of austerity, a disastrous Brexit negotiation, the Windrush outrage and four cabinet resignations in six months, we should be well ahead and we are not.
«The Tories are hoping that the British people can be kept in the dark about what the tax increases they are planning will mean for those on middle and low incomes, who have had to bear the brunt of seven years of austerity.
Its austerity policies inhibit growth and constantly pull down aggregate demand, and when as a result the budget deficit grows instead of falls, that is used as a pretext for another massive round of cuts (another # 9.8 bn in this year alone).
Ms Thornberry argued the Labour party had changed «for the better» in the past year because of Mr Corbyn's influence on austerity and housing issues.
The consensus is that not only is Cuomo returning to his liberal roots after two years of austerity proposals, but he's positioning himself as a true - blue Democrat should he run for president in 2016.
David Cameron in Ibiza With austerity on everyone's minds, the PM flew via Easyjet for his summer break this year with his family to the island of Ibiza.
He said that Ed Miliband was responsible for the rise of Jeremy Corbyn «because if you spend five years demonising austerity as some sort of evil choice, then of course you can never digest ideas that sometimes you need row back as a country in a way of living within the means of what you can afford».
With five more years of austerity to go, let's watch the polls for green shoots in public confidence in the economy, as well as movements in ratings of the competence Osborne and the government.
«After years of austerity which have increased pressures on schools, the funding reforms must be managed in a way that does not add to the existing pressures on schools or result in «knee - jerk» responses that increase the burdens placed on teachers.
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