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Kosor introduced austerity measures to counter the economic crisis and launched an anti-corruption campaign aimed at public officials.
The Ministry of Finance rejected the possibility that Cyprus would be forced to undergo the sweeping austerity measures that have caused turbulence in Greece, but admitted that there would be " some negative repercussion ".
On the negative side, public sector wage increases and regional peacekeeping commitments have led to continued inflationary deficit financing, depreciation of the Cedi, and rising public discontent with Ghana's austerity measures.
However, in May 2010, the German parliament agreed to loan 22. 4 billion euros to Greece over three years, with the stipulation that Greece follow strict austerity measures.
He introduced a string of austerity measures ( the " Bokros Package ") on 12 March 1995 which had the following key points: one-time 9 % devaluation of the forint, introducing a constant sliding devaluation, 8 % additional customs duty on all goods except for energy sources, limitation of growth of wages in the public sector, simplified and accelerated privatization.
However, after the elections in April 2006, the Socialist coalition under Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany unveiled a package of austerity measures which were designed to reduce the budget deficit to 3 % of GDP by 2008.
On 2 May 2010, the Eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund agreed on a loan for Greece, conditional on the implementation of harsh austerity measures.
These austerity measures have proved extremely unpopular with the Greek public, precipitating demonstrations and civil unrest.
In December, Suharto's government signed a letter of intent to the IMF, pledging to enact austerity measures, including cuts to public services and removal of subsidies, in return for receiving the aid of the IMF and other donors.
In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments ; Iraq suffered economic losses of at least $ 80 billion from the war.
As a result of austerity measures passed in December 2010, Italy is targeting a public budget deficit of 3. 9 % in 2011 and 2. 7 % in 2012, both among the lowest in the European Union.
The government had adopted austerity measures on 15 July and 14 September 2011, together meant to save 124 billion euro.
As a result of austerity measures passed in December 2011 ( Save Italy ), Italy is targeting a public budget deficit of 1. 5 % in 2012 and 0. 1 % in 2013.
The government tried to impose austerity measures, with moderate success.
Triggered by the collapse of the second largest bank, GDP plunged by almost 18 % in 2009, and the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and other international donors provided substantial financial assistance to Latvia as part of an agreement to defend the currency's peg to the euro in exchange for the government's commitment to stringent austerity measures.
But the populace became increasingly dissatisfied with the austerity measures imposed by the IMF plan as well as their perception that the ruling elite was not subject to the same strictures.
* 2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
Stroessner's adoption of economic austerity measures proved unpopular with military officers, who had grown used to getting soft loans from the Central Bank ; with businessmen, who disliked the severe tightening of credit ; and with workers, who went out on strike when they no longer received pay raises.
In 1955 Stroessner fired the country's finance minister, who was unwilling to implement reforms, and in 1956 accepted an International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) stabilization plan that abolished export duties, lowered import tariffs, restricted credit, devalued the currency, and implemented strict austerity measures.
Many economists recommended a battery of policies to control the surging public debt caused by the recessionary collapse of tax revenues, combining drastic austerity measures with higher taxes.
On May 23, 2010, the government announced further austerity measures, consolidating the ambitious plans announced in January.
" According to Báñez, reforms and adjustments made by the Spanish Government are beginning to create a situation of economic growth, " creating jobs ", while measures are " rationalization and austerity " in public spending, will show growth employment in the coming months.
Under these programs, the Togolese Government introduced a series of austerity measures and major restructuring goals for the state enterprise and rural development sectors.
Vietnam ’ s economy continues to expand at an annual rate in excess of 7 %, one of the fastest growing in the world, but it grew from an extremely low base, as it suffered the crippling effect of the Vietnam War from the 1950s to the 1970s, as well as the austerity measures introduced in its aftermath.

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The party split in 1951 over the austerity budget brought in by Hugh Gaitskell to pay for the cost of Britain's participation in the Korean War.
The perfecti were the spiritual elite, highly respected by many of the local people, leading a life of austerity and charity.
In the same play the character Hermia is told by the Duke Theseus that she must either wed the character Demetrius " Or on Diana's alter to protest for aye austerity and single life ".
In chapter 17 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes how faith, influenced by the three modes ( guṇas ) lead to different approaches in worship, diet, sacrifice, austerity and charity.
According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.
Honduran president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, elected in November 1989, enjoyed little success in the early part of his administration as he attempted to adhere to a standard economic austerity package prescribed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank.
However, the government largely made good its pledge to trim that number by 8, 000 to 10, 000 throughout 1991 as part of its austerity program.
In 2012 Sarkozy ran for re-election but was defeated by François Hollande who advocated a growth policy in contrast to the austerity policy advocated by Germany's Angela Merkel as a way of tackling the European sovereign debt crisis.
Rapid economic growth fueled by foreign credits gradually gave way to wrenching austerity and severe political repression, which became increasingly draconian through the 1980s.
Britain faced severe financial crises, and responded by reducing her international responsibilities and by sharing the hardships of an " age of austerity.
On the domestic front, neo-liberal economic austerity measures introduced by Chirac and his conservative prime minister Alain Juppé, including budgetary cutbacks, proved highly unpopular.
In typical economic theory, this would be accompanied by austerity shock treatment, as is generally recommended by the International Monetary Fund: such a course was taken in the United Kingdom, where government spending was slashed in the late ' 70s and early ' 80s under the political ascendance of Margaret Thatcher.

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Why had not this success come to him before he had plunged into his Discourse, and before he had committed himself to a life of austerity and denial??
In the United Kingdom, the new generation growing up after World War II had grown tired of the rationing and austerity of the 1940s and 1950s and the Victorian values of their elders, so the 1960s were a time of rebellion against the fashions and social mores of the previous generation.
Rejecting the developments the Benedictines had undergone, the monks tried to replicate monastic life exactly as it had been in Saint Benedict's time ; indeed in various points they went beyond it in austerity.
Although the First Wilson Government had enacted a wide range of social reforms and arguably did much to reduce social inequalities during its time in office, the economic difficulties that it faced led to austerity measures being imposed on numerous occasions, forcing the government to abandon some of its key policy goals.
Despite his personal austerity, John had a high conception of the imperial role and would appear in full ceremonial splendour when this was advantageous.
Fujimori won much support from the poor, who had been frightened by Vargas Llosa's austerity proposals.
By May 1952, despite being in a period of great austerity, LANT had raised over £ 4, 000 towards the work, and the involvement of the Royal Engineers, who helped with the reconstruction of Chadbury Lock as a training exercise, increased public awareness, and enabled further public appeals for funds to be made.
Margaret was not yet fifty, but a life of constant austerity and fasting had taken their toll.
The reduction of national industry effected during the 1990s ( consequence of the affordability of imports made possible by the artificially low foreign currency exchange ), combined with the austerity economic policies put into place in the late 1990s and early 2000s in order to service the foreign debt and satisfy foreign creditors, had resulted by 2003 in a poverty rate of slightly over 50 %.
On the conclusion of peace in 1653, the marquis, who had been severely wounded in 1652, obtained high favour at court in spite of the roughness of his manners and the general austerity which made the Parisian public recognize him as the original of Alceste in Molière's Le Misanthrope.
The relative austerity of the Senussi message was particularly suited to the character of the Cyrenaican Bedouins, whose way of life had not changed much in the centuries since the Arabs had first accepted the Prophet Mohammad's teachings.
Langdon had openly campaigned against Rae's austerity measures.
In the 1930s the Daimler CO chassis became the main model, followed by a similar, but heavier, CW ' austerity ' model produced during World War II ( 100 with the Gardner 5LW engine ( CWG5 ), the rest with the AEC 7. 7-litre engine-CWA6 ) and in postwar years production worked through the Daimler CV to the long-running Daimler CR Fleetline, built from 1960 to 1980 ( CVG5 and CVG6 had been a common type of bus in Hong Kong between 1950 to 1988 and Fleetline had also become a major type of bus in Hong Kong until 1995 ).
Even while both Dutch and Spanish still life often had an embedded moral purpose, the austerity, which some find akin to the bleakness of some of the Spanish plateaus, appears to reject the sensual pleasures, plenitude, and luxury of Dutch still life paintings.
By 1976, the shah had accumulated upward of one billion dollars from oil revenue ; his family — including sixty-three princes and princesses — had accumulated between five and twenty billion dollars ; and the family foundation controlled approximately three billion dollars By mid-1977 economic austerity measures to fight inflation disproportionately affected the thousands of poor and unskilled male migrants to the cities working construction.

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