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Businesses are looking for some quick, short-term economic injection that will generate economy. The budget announced, under the commitment of accelerated infrastructure and new investment, a $12-billion investment over the next two years in "shovel-ready" projects. This will not only generate an economic stimulus for construction, engineering, architects and material manufacturers, but the indirect affect on support services to these projects will begin as soon as the shovel hits the ground.
Most importantly, business needs certainty. The area of greatest weakness is the projected deficit over the next five years. We need the government to continue to commit to pursuit of a surplus budget position. It will only be able to achieve that through significant expenditure reduction once the ...
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... products for recovery of health care expenditures incurred by government in treating individuals exp...Rev. 5. Elliot, Robin. "References, Structural Argumentation and the Organizing Principles of Can...
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Ignatieff Promises Higher Taxes! screamed a Conservative party website, trying to torque a commonplace observation from Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff into a career-ending scandal. [...] why are proposed tax hikes, and not Ignatieff's promise to slash spending, the scandal?
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...The composition of expenditure and tax measures should be chosen to minimize thei... resistance to fiscal consolidation and structural reform in advanced economies would increase, there...
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... the sudden prospect of unsustainable structural deficits which, if left unchecked, would have reac... the latter less rapidly than total expenditures from 2007 to 2019. Over this 12-year period, GDP i...
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.... The growth of real per capita expenditures on healthcare has far exceeded that of personal in... effects of new policy initiatives and structural changes. We then generate a base-case projection o...
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... R&D deficit appears to stem from structural aspects of the economy and, more importantly, a la...'s patent levels and its industry expenditures in R&D (Figure 1). A strong relationship also exis...
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...In 2001-2002 NLSB expenditures were 22% higher than forecast and by 2003-2004 the...Cast as a structural problem of social and economic marginality, the ar...
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... was on promoting sustainability and structural adjustment, as well as a more strategic use of aid... to rationalize this area of aid expenditure, especially as the policy focus shifted to "fighti...
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... such a bold assertion has been the expenditure of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. . Claims of ... are in fact a result of systemic and structural factors that are likely to deepen in the years ahe...