Meanings of fiscal retrenchment in English

In other words, fiscal retrenchment is unlikely to worsen the government's debt-to-GDP ratio.

He also paused fiscal retrenchment in 2012, and this year.

A poll by ComRes in yesterday's Independent on Sunday suggests voters accept the need for fiscal retrenchment.

Keynes would have cautioned against rapid fiscal retrenchment, and Beveridge would have noticed that the poorest gain least from income tax cuts.

At the end of the 1980s, after a miserable decade of fiscal retrenchment, the clouds began to lift on the Irish economy.

Still, huge criticism centres on the damaging repercussions of prolonged fiscal retrenchment as governments across the euro zone curtailed spending and increased taxes.

The fiscal retrenchment will keep GDP subdued, while commodity price rises and the VAT hike will push inflation close to 4%.

The budget two days ago brought an end to years of relentless fiscal retrenchment, with modest income tax cuts and a small rise in expenditure.

Given advances in affective computing over the coming years, and the likelihood of further fiscal retrenchment post-Brexit, Amelia provides a glimpse of future local government.

Inside a monetary union, the only option is to reduce costs through a long and painful period of low growth, fiscal retrenchment and higher unemployment.

Fiscal retrenchment could be presented as urgently needed to avert a Greek-style strike by bond buyers.