Threading the Fiscal Needle

C. Financial overview

In the US, consolidation has barely begun.

Indeed, the IMF explicitly recommended slower fiscal consolidation for Spain in its 2012 World Economic Outlook.

A global financial crisis.

So it would have been lethal to embark on fiscal consolidation back then.

Fiscal consolidation was not, however, the result of formal fiscal rules.

China and the Global Financial Crisis

As a result, fiscal consolidation appeared to be the only way to restore confidence.

This calls for caution with consolidation efforts.

Second, adjustment fatigue is widespread and becoming more acute.

Fiscal consolidation is the second pillar of France s economic strategy.

(b) Take account of world inflation and changes in the world economic and monetary situations

However, fortunately, many Lebanese expatriates have been able to return to the country due to the negative financial situations they are facing abroad, due to the global economic crisis.

Fiscal adjustment is jargon what austerity is always about is the distribution of income.

Table I.1 gives a financial overview of peacekeeping operations.

Inventory adjustments, which boosted growth for a few quarters, will run their course.

They understand that their countries fiscal positions are unsustainable.

In some countries, lower military expenditures and interest rates has helped to improve a weak fiscal position.

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In each case where fiscal consolidation supposedly was expansionary, the economy grew because of some third factor.

Her delegation welcomed the efforts made to reform UNIDO's finances over the past two years.

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The global financial crisis complicates matters further.

MUNICH The world s worst post war financial crisis is over.

And low growth will hurt tax revenues, undermining the proclaimed goal of fiscal consolidation.

In this case, fiscal consolidation is likely to affect their investment spending positively.

In the United Kingdom, the new government gave several reasons for front loading fiscal consolidation.

But, with the exception of China, fiscal positions around the world are currently weak.

And, if current European governments are not committed to austerity and fiscal consolidation, then which governments are?

Fiscal consolidation therefore requires additional revenue as well as slower growth in entitlement spending.

(f) whether goods and services which have been procured are necessary or not excessive, having regard to circumstances and the functions of the Tribunal.

For the first half of fiscal year 2004, economic health, as measured by employment and output, was mixed.

France is fully committed to a fiscal consolidation effort that returns it to a balanced budget by 2017.

Fiscal consolidation in the Mediterranean countries might just do the trick, and allow at great cost a return to normal financing arrangements.

The review of the world economy and the new interdependence that prevailed had helped the participants in understanding current global situations.

D. Global financial mechanism and related issues

At the same time, fiscal adjustment remains essential to Italy s short and long term stability.

But drastic attempts at fiscal consolidation immediately evoke memories of the Great Depression.

Given the perilous state of California s finances, it may well be tested soon.

Lack of rain in the region and volatile global food prices have made a bad situation worse.

It was the worst global crisis since the Great Depression.

Here in Australia, they refer to it as the GFC the global financial crisis.

Financial Mechanisms Operated by the Global Environment Facility The GEF serves as the interim operational entity for the financial mechanisms of several MEAs, including the Stockholm POPs Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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