It will support efforts to strengthen fiscal sustainability, with improved purchasing procedures.

This will help to restore fiscal sustainability over the long run, it said.

How much adjustment is needed to restore fiscal sustainability in the United States?

However, concerns were raised about the instability of Eskom, as well as fiscal sustainability.

What we need is a glide path to fiscal sustainability.

These projections provide a gauge of the adjustments that will be necessary to attain fiscal sustainability.

Japan will need all three arrows if it is to both sustain growth and maintain fiscal sustainability.

We are committed to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth while ensuring long-run fiscal sustainability.

The minister also confirmed that assertions were made to investors about the government's commitment to ensuring fiscal sustainability and unnecessary expenditure.

HHS approved New Hampshire's plan in November, finding the state's proposal promoted Medicaid's goals as it would improve its fiscal sustainability.

He also said the government would defuse rising local government debt, regarded by many investors as the key risk to fiscal sustainability.

But he said the good times were unlikely to last forever and this had exposed the country to stark fiscal sustainability concerns.

As for Japan, Yellen said high debt levels, slow growth and an aging population posed threats to the country's long-term fiscal sustainability.

But the official noted, "It's clear that fiscal policy will have to be adjusted to underpin confidence in fiscal sustainability."

Given the notable surge in government debt in many countries, ensuring fiscal sustainability is also a key priority and policy challenge, they said.

The government "is determined to put the economy back on a path of fiscal sustainability in the context of the EU rules".