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Freezing public sector wages a good idea
Toronto :: Canada | 2 days ago
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Ben Eisen, Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy Manitoba’s provincial government recently announced that in response to a looming $600-million deficit for this fiscal year, the province would freeze the wages of public-sector employees for...
Tags: Manitoba Government Employees Union, public servants, sector union, sector wages, public sector, sector salaries, provincial public, wages growth, Canada, Toronto, Business cycle, Business Finance, Deficit spending, Economic history of Chile, Macroeconomics, Inflation, Labor, Gary Doer, Economics, Recession, Incomes policy, Macroeconomic policy, Fiscal policy, Keynesian economics
India Finance Minister: High Inflation To Last A Bit Longer
New Delhi :: India | 5 days ago
Credibility India's high inflation levels would last some more time but the pressure from high food prices--the main driver of inflation--is easing, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Monday. "I am afraid we will have to deal with it (high inflation) for some...
Tags: inflation, Pranab Mukherjee, finance minister, inflationary pressure, minister pranab, food items, India, New Delhi, Business Finance, Parliament of India, Government of India, Economics, Statistics, Dow Jones Newswires, Finance, World food price crisis, Social Issues, Cent, Gross Domestic Product, Index numbers, Incomes policy, Dow Jones & Company, Wholesale price index, National accounts
Higher oil prices no reason for inflation
New York City :: NY :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Price controls do not quell inflation, and abolishing price controls won't accelerate inflation...They are dismayed by the restoration of old taxes on crude, petrol and diesel in the Budget, and the consequent increase in prices. They fear that if petroleum...
Tags: petrol, price controls, India, excludes energy, New York City, Price of petroleum, World food price crisis, Business Finance, Economics, Cost-push inflation, Core inflation, Inflation, Effects of the 2000s energy crisis, Asset price inflation, Incomes policy
Inflation-hit Algeria says to impose price controls
Algiers :: Algeria | about 1 month ago
Credibility The government of North African energy exporter Algeria will impose price controls on some consumer goods, a minister said, in an effort to rein in steep inflation that has been fuelling public unrest. Draft amendments to Algeria's competition law will...
Tags: price controlling, Algeria, imposing price, Algiers, OPEC, World oil market chronology, Economics, Business Finance, Inflation, Algerian dinar, Incomes policy, Hyperinflation
Workers face frozen pay despite inflation
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility In a report published today, The Labour Research Department (LRD) say the rate of wage freezes is accelerating despite RPI inflation increasing by 2.4 per cent in the year to December...The research group said a study of deals in its database of more...
Tags: inflation, the, labour, wage, rose, 2010, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Economics, Labour Research Department, Labor, Finance, Employment compensation, Retail Prices Index, Incomes policy, Pension
Warning: Price control kills
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 2 months ago
Credibility President Hugo Chavez is the best current example of the wisdom that everybody who desires the highest office in the land should first have a good working knowledge of basic economic theory. Buoyed by high oil prices, which rose to as high as $140 a barrel...
Tags: price control, AES, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Rent control, Argentine peso, Inflation, Incomes policy
The Futility Of Price Controls
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The number of [welfare] recipients began to exceed the number of contributors [taxpayers] by so much that, with farmers' resources exhausted by the enormous size of the requisitions, fields became deserted and cultivated land was turned into forest."
Tags: Venezuelan, exchange rate, Rome, John Maynard Keynes, U.S, Richard Nixon, New York City, Supply-side economics, Price controls, Economic policy, Business Finance, Macroeconomics, Inflation, Incomes policy, Monetary policy, Political economy
Brown launches £50m boiler scrappage scheme
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Gordon Brown yesterday launched a Government scheme offering families a discount to trade in their old boilers for new ones, in a bid to cut emissions and reduce bills. The move to offer a £400 incentive to encourage households to update inefficient...
Tags: carbon emissions, England, old boiler, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Scrappage program, Boilers, Boiler, Automotive industry, Electrification, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Politics, Energy in the United Kingdom, Energy Saving Trust, Energy efficiency, Energy economics, Business Finance, Inflation, Scottish Water, Plumbing, Incomes policy
Sean O'Grady: The master of the dismal science – with equations
Athens :: Greece | 3 months ago
Credibility Given the longevity of Samuelson – he advised President Kennedy and collected his Nobel Prize as long ago as 1970 – many of his "slaves" became defunct rather earlier than he did. Not quite defunct, my own vintage is the now worryingly remote 11th edition...
Tags: Paul Samuelson, Samuelsons, incomes policy, Greece, Athens, Guggenheim Fellows, Economists, Economic model, Mathematical economics, Economics
Clamping down on coffee --
Maracaibo :: Venezuela | 4 months ago
Credibility Clamping down on coffee Wednesday, November 18th 2009 President Hugo Chavez’s government has nationalised two coffee processors and is planning to purchase a majority stake in a third as it moves to assert greater control over Venezuela’s strictly regulated...
Tags: Hugo Chávez, price control, Venezuela, Maracaibo, Incomes policy, Hugo Chￃﾡvez, Price controls, Economy of Venezuela, Coffee, world food price crisis, Nationalization, Politics
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