To be sure, retrenchment could entail some short term costs but the longer term benefits would be much bigger.

This, by contrast, implies a need for retrenchment.

Five years of economic retrenchment have deeply scarred the Palestinian economy.

The appropriate timing of fiscal retrenchment is, in fact, difficult to decide.

So the budget deficit will persist, and more retrenchment will be required.

American consumers unprecedented retrenchment has turned the US economy s growth calculus inside out.

For starters, banks current retrenchment of long term investment financing is likely to persist.

But when the economy is booming, the effects of fiscal retrenchment are unlikely to be damaging.

The reasoning seems to be that growth requires market confidence, which in turn requires fiscal retrenchment.

To dampen the additional inflationary pressures implied by a weaker rupee, more aggressive fiscal retrenchment is needed.

After five years of decline in living standards, voters oppose more austerity and further retrenchment without growth.

Thus, the state s coffers (and hence spending) overflow during booms, but then collapse, forcing emergency retrenchment, during busts.

With retrenchment and balance sheet repair only in its early stages, the zombie like behavior of American consumers should persist.

Until the Reinhart Rogoff paper, the main argument for fiscal retrenchment rested on concerns about the sustainability of public debt.

But when there is spare capacity in the economy, the resources freed up by public sector retrenchment may simply be wasted.

After a period of massive expansion during which the financial services sector nearly doubled in size, some retrenchment is natural and normal.

A shadow or actual International Monetary Fund program would vastly enhance the credibility of a policy of fiscal retrenchment and structural reforms.

Given synchronized fiscal retrenchment in most advanced economies, another year of mediocre growth could give way to outright contraction in some countries.

Thus, Europe s failure to recover immediately has been due to a lack of austerity, even though public sector retrenchment has been unprecedented.

Iran seeks compensation for expenses incurred in treating these additional cases indirect costs such as transportation costs costs incurred by caregivers opportunity costs and costs of future medical care.

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They will warn that other EU countries like Portugal will refuse to undertake more reform, retrenchment, and repayment unless they receive similar largesse.

French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher.

Indeed, all Western governments, with the exception of the Obama administration, are committed to retrenchment and Obama cannot get a new stimulus package through Congress.

From this perspective, the crisis countries would not be spared painful retrenchment as long as they remained in a monetary union that includes competitive countries.

At the same time, financial markets are forcing fiscal retrenchment on governments, as will the planned new fiscal treaty (on which Germany, among others, insisted).

Methodologies used to calculate costs Staff costs Salary and common staff costs The standard costs (in United States dollars) applied in determining staff costs in the proposed budget are based on actual salary costs for the first three months of 2005, and adjusted for step increments in 2006 2007.

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The sharp fiscal retrenchment that has now started throughout southern Europe should contribute further to a sharp deceleration, if not outright fall, in domestic demand there.

Instead, what the coalition seems to be proposing is a sort of correction, a retrenchment from various excesses and dysfunctions to something more restrained and disciplined.

If Germany wants the rest of Europe to swallow the bitter pill of fiscal retrenchment, it will eventually have to recognize the implicit quid pro quo.

Costs and financing The cost of supplying water consists, to a very large extent, of fixed costs (capital costs and personnel costs) and only to a small extent of variable costs that depend on the amount of water consumed (mainly energy and chemicals).

A one dollar spending cut was believed to reduce GDP by more than one dollar, so that fiscal retrenchment was economically costly (while, conversely, stimulus was effective).

In the United States, North America, much more expensive. Legal costs, medical costs ...

This amount was inclusive of extrabudgetary costs amounting to 642,400 to be funded by a number of member organizations and comprised 35,671,100 for administrative costs, 43,014,100 for investment costs and 1,443,200 for audit costs.

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Travel costs 24.0

Travel costs 76.0

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