It is not focused on the growth of the economy, but on the growth of surpluses, welfare dependency, and bureaucracy. |
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As a result the cash surpluses that would normally occur around now are very low or non-existent. |
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Wartime was a period of massive fiscal deficits and huge current account surpluses. |
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The world has moved out of that period of shortages into a period of surpluses in some commodities and softness in other commodities. |
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Third is the impact of sustained surpluses and repayment of the national debt on financial markets. |
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Even though there are big surpluses, if you want this big tax cut, there's not an infinite amount of money. |
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They climbed trees to tap palm wine or fermented grain beers from harvest surpluses. |
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Hunter-gatherer societies don't produce enough food surpluses to support those extra people. |
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The subsidized production and export of U.S. food surpluses to developing countries is a major cause of hunger. |
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However, given their economic circumstances, many Maasai may not have surpluses to sell. |
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In an era of budget surpluses, advocates argue, the federal government could ante up money for purchase of open space and farmland. |
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What does exist is an international trade in surpluses of grain, cereals and meat dumped primarily by rich countries and corporations. |
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These surpluses have been achieved through low pay and casualisation of our jobs. |
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Projections of fabulous budget surpluses that provide the premise for this year's political action are no less airy-fairy. |
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Three crops a year are harvested to provide enough rice for the population, and the government keeps surpluses stored for times of drought. |
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The federal government has been running huge budget surpluses for years, with more to come. |
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Largely neglected by their British governors, they traded surpluses of livestock, wheat, and flour with Louisbourg and Boston. |
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The EU pays 2.7 billion euros a year to farmers to grow sugar beet, and then offloads the resulting surpluses on the world market. |
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In the enterprise of the future, soft skills are like budgets surpluses are preferred over deficits. |
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The economic contraction succeeded in generating the large trade surpluses needed to make debt payments. |
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Government surpluses drain the private sector of net savings, a very contractionary policy! |
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Grass surpluses have developed on grazing ground on many farms at present following recent good growth. |
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State schools have suffered budget cuts as the surpluses in many state treasuries have quickly turned into nasty deficits. |
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That is why we have surpluses in good times, so that we can act when times are tough. |
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It will be incented to produce surpluses, to trade and sell to other industries. |
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In a market thrown off balance by surpluses, any country that increases its production harms all the others. |
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Samuel's brother, Amos, whose estate was probated in 1798, certainly owned equipment to suggest he was in a position to produce surpluses for the market. |
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This is how things stand and, naturally, the provinces are footing the bill, while the federal government is accumulating astronomical surpluses. |
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Year in year out for the past four or five years, the government has systematically taken very significant amounts from the EI surpluses. |
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The piddly surpluses now generated by the euro area as a whole simply aren't sufficient to get the job done. |
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Now they have found one way, among others, to eliminate the surpluses in the employment insurance fund, which is to reduce the premium rate. |
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The era of budgetary surpluses has come to a screeching halt with the arrival of the financial crisis that triggered a global recession. |
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This unexpected result was mostly due to production surpluses encouraged by soaring prices. |
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If the surpluses are larger than what we expect, we can actually exceed that number by a great deal. |
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In less than a year, Washington's fiscal biorhythm has moved from protecting surpluses to carefree deficit spending. |
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Exports are projected to remain close to historical levels, due mainly to declining surpluses and the trend toward distributed generation. |
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In many instances, funders claw back funds in the belief that surpluses of any kind represent illgotten gain and poor planning. |
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Maintaining high primary surpluses is an essential perquisite in order to ensure the reduction in the still high government debt ratio. |
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They are overtaxing hardworking Canadians to get surpluses that they hide and then announce with unplanned and unprecedented budgeting. |
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Although surpluses or deficits may occur from year to year, they are generally expected to balance out over time. |
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The revised budget approved by Council accepted that the school surpluses could be ascribed to the schools without reserve. |
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Not only will we be able to meet our own energy needs, but we also generate surpluses for sale at a profit on neighbouring markets. |
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In addition, the mid-year report allows the department to reassess funding allocations and reassign surpluses as appropriate. |
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Whatever happens, it is clear that there is a special process to deal with any surpluses in the trust fund. |
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A significant portion of these surpluses will be devoted to the contingency reserve and the economic prudence reserve. |
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We say that it is unacceptable for this underestimation of surpluses, which we have seen for seven years, to become structural. |
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Only the United States chose to dodge entirely the politics of choice by ceding budgetary surpluses in a flash with myriad tax cuts. |
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Weapons collection programmes to mop up the large surpluses of small arms that exist following conflict are now the accepted practice. |
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I have been here since 1993 and the government has continually racked up surpluses. |
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Against a background of mounting spending pressures a tight grip on expenditure will be needed to achieve the envisaged surpluses. |
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This is true in nearly all rich countries, despite the various accounting fictions of trust funds, surpluses, deficits and whatnot. |
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But how does your programme distinguish between pseudo surpluses and real surpluses? |
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Foreshadowing present problems, countries often sterilized the impact of surpluses on domestic money supply and prices. |
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These surpluses subsidize the development of the oil sands at a time when the industry is making record profits. |
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As soon as agriculture became widespread, there were surpluses of food which could be traded for the food that grew elsewhere. |
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Any surpluses or shortfalls that may occur from time to time are taken into consideration in future business operating plans. |
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Liberals wracked up those great surpluses talking about economic management. |
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In the meanwhile, we continue with export subsidies for our agricultural surpluses and tobacco cultivated solely for export. |
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In fact, after years of promises and eight consecutive surpluses, all Canadian families were offered was a mishmash of insecure options. |
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If Greece then refuses to run big surpluses, a second round of debt restructuring would beckon. |
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This has to do with the whole issue of the so-called surpluses and how they are so incredibly underestimated or overestimated. |
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Tragic consequences in the poorest countries result in food from our surpluses being given away for free or sold at token prices. |
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Québec is at the front lines on a daily basis when it comes to providing services, while the federal government piles up stupendous surpluses. |
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This arrangement provides SOMIKA with a loophole that enables it to protect itself from labour surpluses. |
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Nonetheless, we have noticed that since there have been surpluses, the federal government spending machine has been set in motion. |
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The nitrogen in conventional fertilizers, however, is available immediately and surpluses can runoff or leach. |
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One special feature concerning co-operatives is the possibility of paying rebates to their members from a portion of the surpluses realized. |
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Therefore, an entity can only offset revaluation surpluses and deficits for the same asset. |
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In their ridings Liberal members are being chastized for having a Minister of Finances who cannot count when it comes to surpluses. |
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I am suggesting that the finance minister pull up his forecasting socks and stop hiding taxpayer dollars by lowballing surpluses. |
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At a time when federal and provincial surpluses are hitting record highs, cities must go cap in hand in search of help. |
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German farmers would be the first to be affected but the set-aside scheme was a sound ecological solution and less costly than surpluses. |
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Countries would receive credits for payments surpluses, which would be subject to confiscatory taxes if they got too big. |
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Instead, many of Europe's weaker economies failed to reform and Germany accumulated gratifyingly large current-account surpluses. |
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In that book it promised that there would be a national child care policy program in place after three consecutive surpluses. |
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But unlike China's export surpluses, petrodollars are mostly not managed within official reserves, but by oil stabilisation funds and so forth. |
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Had we been able to offset this with trade surpluses in goods and services, our foreign debt would not have continued to grow. |
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Critics go on to suggest that low-balling the surpluses thwarts Parliament's capacity to debate how the extra resources ought to be allocated. |
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Lastly, the valuation model has been fine-tuned to incorporate specific treatment of capital surpluses actually available for distribution. |
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Despite this large margin, there have been some unbelievable inefficiencies in the machinery of government since it has been posting surpluses. |
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Historically pension fund surpluses have been a wonderful honeypot with which to finance rationalisation and early retirement without hitting earnings per share. |
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Maybe he is dyslexic and he got the numbers mixed up, but that shows what this government is doing with its own surpluses. |
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A final and vital flaw in a market-basket dollar is that Gresham's law would result in perpetual shortages and surpluses of different commodities within the market basket. |
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In this way, it can present itself as the great saviour with these unexpected surpluses. |
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Global current account imbalances widened further in 2005, with ballooning deficits in some countries and large surpluses in others. |
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For 1998, fiscal surpluses or further reductions in deficit ratios are projected by the Commission for nearly all Member States. |
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The fund has fantastic surpluses that could be used to improve conditions for the plan's contributors. |
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Social security funds have recently been allowed to invest their surpluses partly in shares. |
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There are reasons that are temporary and anecdotal like the existence of huge surpluses and gigantic budgetary costs. |
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When it anticipated balanced budgets, it in fact achieved budget surpluses. |
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This could, however, be offset by the surpluses in the areas of electricity and fuel for generating electricity and heat. |
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It also includes reserves arising from surpluses in the federal financial contribution. |
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It also permits the disposal of products of unsatisfactory quality and short-term surpluses that may cause temporary problems in certain sectors. |
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These surpluses will then be returned to them during periods when their consumption exceeds their output. |
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This helped reduce electricity surpluses, and drove wholesale power prices up. |
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Our tests suggest that, on average, Canadian investors regard pension deficits as liabilities of the sponsoring firm, but do not regard surpluses as assets of the firm. |
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And dozens of states, many of which cut jobs to close their annual deficits, are now reporting surpluses. |
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Under such constraints, the consolidation of airport finances was achieved through a general policy of applying operating surpluses to supplementary debt redemption. |
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Brown is too much of a redistributionist at heart to be seriously enamoured of across-the-board tax cuts as another way of disposing of surpluses and encouraging productivity. |
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Well first the Federal Government should stop ripping us off with surpluses that see spending power just disappear from the economy into their accounting books. |
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Other sources of revenue include a tax on stock and bond transactions, closing corporate tax shelter loopholes, projected budget surpluses, and household out-of pocket costs. |
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These countries now have bunker mentalities that are driving them toward mercantilist policies, and they continue to run large trade surpluses as a consequence. |
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And when it comes to state finances, surpluses can help spur further growth. |
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Here in Virginia we see results, solutions, job growth, surpluses, and cooperation. |
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Fixing the prices by law just produces shortages here, unconsumed surpluses there, and black markets and inefficiency everywhere. |
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The New Deal, in fact, enabled cooperatives to act as monopolists in so many ways by providing mandatory production controls that eliminated uncontrollable surpluses. |
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It has already suggested that farmers could be paid for maintaining the traditional landscape rather than for producing surpluses of cheap food by intensive methods. |
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To be sure, the commitment was to some extent self-serving, in that food programs were designed to use up the surpluses produced by American agriculture. |
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The notion that equity pre-funding financed by on-budget surpluses can increase capital accumulation buys into the fallacies that have driven policies of fiscal austerity. |
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Of course, at the time, the state was still enjoying power surpluses of 25 to 30 percent and ridiculously cheap hydropower from Washington and Oregon. |
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Swiss representatives called for a tougher approach, with a phaseout of the primary production of mercury and an end to mercury surpluses re-entering the market. |
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The potential is there for it to trot out the surpluses. |
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Swaziland's public finances deteriorated in the late 1990s following sizeable surpluses a decade earlier. |
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Agriculture also created food surpluses that could support people not directly engaged in food production. |
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It urges the Commission to continue with this principle also in the coming budgetary procedures, with the aim of bringing down the agencies' annual surpluses. |
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The Democrats make quite outrageous demands for still greater squanderation of farm surpluses. |
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We would repeat that any surpluses resulting from unused contingency or prudence factors be directed to debt reduction and not splurged on last-minute spending projects. |
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During the past economic good times Bulgaria has achieved consistently high fiscal surpluses and accumulated large fiscal reserves, reflecting buoyant economic growth and considerable revenue windfalls. |
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Even if the level of the surpluses achieved in 1995 and 1996 were to confirm GAN's ability to continue to release reserves in the years ahead, only time will tell whether the current level of reserves is adequate. |
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Given that the government is posting multi-billion dollar surpluses, when will the Prime Minister recommit his government to the fight for women's equality? |
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In addition, Iran has been running major surpluses in its current accounts over the last few years, meaning that more money is flowing into Iran than out. |
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On the supply side weather events have negatively affected cereal production in some important exporting countries, reducing exportable surpluses which could not be quickly filled by other countries not affected. |
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But they should initiate this debate instead of acting in an indirect, deceitful and wishy-washy fashion by keeping the surpluses here and ignoring the fiscal imbalance, which is recognized by everyone. |
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Before collectivization, villagers typically owned and worked enough land to provide for their families and generate small surpluses that could be converted into cash to buy additional goods or to pay taxes. |
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It is a dangerous when we have a government that manages the numbers so it can lowball expectations about surpluses and then use those surpluses at the end of the year for its own ends. |
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To be fair, the Nordic nations had a significant advantage: their tiny size made it easy for them to earn large current account surpluses after devaluing their currencies. |
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Almost all thought the government's caution was amply justified in the late 1990s, when it had just achieved its first surpluses after a quarter-century of deficits and was still wary of any slippage. |
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What Quebecers find hard to swallow is that they see the federal government swimming in surpluses, yet it does not transfer more money for health and education. |
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And since Brazil is considered an LDC, we can only hazard a guess as to the fair distribution of surpluses created by the liberalization of agricultural exchanges. |
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Second, the United States should preannounce the release of surpluses of its strategic petroleum reserves. |
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I am still hopeful that in the Council, the usual suspects who like to refund surpluses to the national ministries will make one more effort, so that next year at least, we have a more ambitious approach. |
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The fertile northern region of Uganda was known for many years as one of the granaries of the country, consistently producing surpluses for local and international food markets. |
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Compared with the previous update of the Convergence Programme, the decline in projected surpluses can be attributed mainly to the phasing-in of income tax reductions in accordance with the 2003 Tax Agreement. |
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The federal government has been underestimating surpluses and overtaxing Canadians, while the provinces and territories have found it difficult to fund crucial services like health care and education. |
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To safeguard its dwindling surpluses, the Chinese government has been stockpiling rare earths, taxing them and imposing ever-smaller export quotas. |
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Finally, as a protective measure against counterpart risk, the Group has modified its policy of investing cash surpluses recognised as cash equivalents. |
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The only reason it has surpluses is that it has been overtaxing Canadians. |
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One must ask how the government has had humongous surpluses for a number of years and a crisis has developed in the Prairies and the Liberals are not doing anything about it. |
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But Hong Kong has been running surpluses for a long time, he says. |
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He ticked off our low inflation rate, rising real incomes, healthy government surpluses, record high employment rates, record car sales, a strong TSX and rising trade surpluses as positive economic benchmarks. |
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Even foundation trusts, whose status depends on their effective management and which have been making surpluses until this year, are starting to report serious overspends. |
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What is the role of a government, particularly a government with budget laxness, a government that has such huge surpluses that it does not know what to do with them? |
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That is a guilty conscience... The 2012 Budget in particular which the member for Lilley introduced by declaring the four years of surpluses they announced tonight. |
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Then, under arbitrary assumptions regarding growth rates, inflation, privatisation receipts, and so forth, they compute what primary surpluses are necessary in every year, working backward to the present. |
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But most Keynesians, anxious to appear fiscally responsible, say that budget deficits in bad times should be offset by surpluses in good times, keeping the level of debt seemly. |
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Yet the member just stood up and acknowledged himself, in a very accurate way, that there have been very large surpluses that the government has not acknowledged. |
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There has also been much brouhaha over syrup surpluses, the rock-bottom prices being paid to producers, and criticisms over the federation's management and handling of both sales and the development of new markets. |
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It is terribly ungracious on the government's part to announce billions in surpluses, while leaving the needy to choose between getting adequate food and adequate clothing. |
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As a result, these economies are confronted with large labour surpluses of underemployed people who find their way into informal employment, largely in the service sector. |
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As a social enterprise, the new organisation will be able to use any surpluses to fund further service improvements or invest in other community facilities. |
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Increasingly, the international community is turning to weapons collection programmes to mop up the large surpluses of small arms that remain after a conflict. |
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Lacking funds or goods to exchange against grain needed to feed the Red Army and the towns, Lenin instituted a system of requisitioning grain surpluses without compensation. |
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Moreover, the demographic trend over the next few decades will have an adverse effect on the current surpluses in the pension system, thereby making improvements in the general government fiscal balance essential. |
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First, projected surpluses for any given fiscal year have tended to grow as each fiscal year unfolded, leaving additional room for government initiatives as the end of the year approached. |
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Cash levels are constantly monitored and any surpluses or shortfalls that may occur from time to time during certain operating periods are taken into consideration in future operating plans and budgets. |
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We in Navdanya work on first ensuring that the farmers eat the best food by producing the best, and what we work on is authentic surpluses, not pseudo surpluses. |
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I can say that it is unbelievable how many people the government has left behind in this budget when we consider the surpluses with which it is operating. |
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But in states with surpluses, life is becoming more fun for governors. |
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Regions with skill shortages and bottlenecks and low unemployment often exist side by side with regions with skill surpluses and high unemployment. |
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That is even more true of supplementary private pensions, which are only affordable by those who are able and willing to invest surpluses in an insurance company in their productive years. |
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Passport Canada can accumulate surpluses during this period, which can be drawn from in leaner years, but it cannot make a profit at the end of this period. |
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Bill C-67 institutionalizes unanticipated surpluses. |
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Alternatively, their presence has been explained as being in response to temporary surpluses of food unrelated to assisting reproductive success. |
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It establishes a process by which, in certain circumstances, Parliament has an opportunity to agree upon and pass legislation to authorize further spending in areas as a consequence of unanticipated surpluses. |
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That one simple example shows a government that is out of touch with a segment of its people when it has huge surpluses and it is mismanaging and misspending. |
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In the meanwhile, Japanese economic agents should behave in such a way as to prevent tension over the continuing Japanese trade surpluses to surface again in Europe. |
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There were the occasional surpluses, of course, from that time on, but, significantly, there were also sizeable reductions in the amount of contributions by employees and employers as well. |
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This nitrogen is mineralized over an extended period of time, so that any surpluses of it do not readily run off into streams and underground water supplies. |
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Nutrient surpluses for N and K were similar to our results, but higher surplus P was as a result of mineral P supplementation in the livestock diet, and imported poultry manure. |
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Lorries arrive from Ethiopia's south and west, which have food surpluses, and leave for the north and east of the country, which is often famished. |
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As I said earlier, I think rightly, the federal government is keeping the provinces struggling, their heads barely above water, while it is rolling indecently and disgustingly in surpluses. |
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Going back to 1997, when the government started running surpluses, it has been absolutely Machiavellian how the government has handled the manipulation of the surpluses that the country has run since that time. |
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A third challenge involves not succumbing to the temptation to maintain the status quo, which is often difficult for countries that suddenly find themselves with such vast surpluses. |
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Mr. Speaker, the last time this government was swimming in surpluses, it reacted the way it always does: it gave students a pittance and it made cuts in essential programs designed for people who need them the most. |
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As a result, current account surpluses were recorded and external debt levels generally decreased, although indebtedness remained high in a number of countries. |
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In fact, there is a far less sinister explanation than that of deliberately hiding surpluses, which would imply that pressure was applied by the government to Finance officials and that they gave in to the pressure. |
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The problem of the fund-as you know-is the result of a Liberal invention that allows the Minister of Finance to rack up surpluses every year and to shift them into the consolidated fund. |
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The new union leader says he is concerned by the lax attitude of the federal government, which prefers to rack up surpluses instead of supporting the Québec government. |
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On November 8, when the Conservatives put out an economic statement that they were having nice surpluses and everything was fine, they had no inkling whatsoever. |
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It is complete lunacy if the final stage in this vicious circle of hunger consists of dumping our surpluses on the markets we have already undermined through low world market prices. |
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Experience in the run-up to the recent protracted economic slowdown has highlighted the need to conduct prudent and symmetric-over-the-cycle policies and achieve surpluses in good times. |
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The impact of these constraints had been mitigated thus far thanks to cash surpluses accumulated over preceding budget years which were used as a complement to fund the Regular Programme. |
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Over the years, these caisses generated sufficient surpluses to create affiliates able to meet the increasingly diversified needs of their members. |
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Mass slavery requires economic surpluses and a high population density to be viable. |
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The goal of mercantilism was to run trade surpluses, so that gold and silver would pour into London. |
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The making of homespun cloth and clothing from wool became cottage industries, creating product surpluses that were marketed beyond the community. |
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The great medieval English monasteries produced large surpluses of wool that were sold to mainland Europe. |
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The reason we are having this issue of surpluses is because of better circumstances than were expected, and by everyone, and the same could happen in reverse. |
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The end of the Indian Wars further expanded acreage under mechanical cultivation, increasing surpluses for international markets. |
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Financing these deficits required the country to borrow large sums from abroad, much of it from countries running trade surpluses. |
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So unless the northern core begins running big surpluses vis-a-vis the periphery, rising external demand means rising surpluses with the world outside the euro area. As the latest data make clear, that is occuring. |
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We remember quite clearly that during the election the Prime Minister pontificated not only that the economy in Canada was fine and it would improve, but he also said that there would be growth and surpluses. |
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Because this data set includes the net purchases of other regions with current account surpluses, such as Emerging Asia, it reflects more than just petrodollar inflows. |
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And if we were ever to reach the point where it is cheaper to destroy surpluses than store them, I would not like to be in the shoes of those responsible for bringing that upon us. |
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When exploitation rates are high or the fishing capacity is large in relation to harvestable surpluses, monitoring and reporting requirements need to be more intensive. |
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They do not generate surpluses, pay no taxes, and support no standing army. |
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When conditions turn favourable, plan sponsors often feel that they should control the use of funding surpluses, whether through contribution holidays, surplus reversions or benefit improvements. |
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Once early farmers perfected their agricultural techniques like irrigation, their crops would yield surpluses that needed storage. |
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Java was famous for rice surpluses and rice export since ancient times, and rice agriculture contributed to the population growth of the island. |
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The US accused the EU of freeriding on this programme for dumping its own surpluses, and demanded that the EU eliminate its export subsidies for cereals. |
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Not all towns have big surpluses in local trust funds. |
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In the core, strong central governments, extensive bureaucracies, and large mercenary armies enabled the local bourgeoisies to obtain control of international commerce and accumulate capital surpluses from this trade. |
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Not the fiscal hard heads who wish for smaller government, budget surpluses and low or no debt, nor the government interventionists who reckon fiscal policy can deliver full employment and ongoing prosperity. |
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That is the same as the hon. member claiming the government did such wonderful fiscal work in balancing the budget, posting surpluses and making a mediocre paydown of the debt. |
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Due to billions of dollars in surpluses from the oil and gas industry, the Qatari government has directed investments into United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. |
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Since there are food surpluses, fewer people are needed to produce food. |
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