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Brendan Barber called it "astonishing" that demands for reducing the budget deficit were being seen as a priority, rather than funding economic revival. Speaking ahead of the TUC Congress in Liverpool, Mr Barber said the outlook was "very precarious".
Tags: TUC Congress in Liverpool, spend cut, Brendan Barber, Britain, Gordon Brown, public spend, union leaders, Labour, United Kingdom, Liverpool
The head of Britain's spending watchdog lays bare the damage the recession has done to state finances with a bleak warning that a pay freeze should be imposed on Britain's six million public-sector workers. In the face of the bitter political row over...
Tags: public sectors, pay freeze, sectors workers, sectors pay, Alistair Darling, spend watchdog, Audit Commission, public spend, public finances, pay squeeze
Paraguay plans to fight off the world economic crisis with public spending. Economy Minister Dionisio Borda says the Latin American nation will spend some $800 million on infrastructure and other government projects in 2009. Borda says the country also...
Tags: crisis, poverty, Paraguay, borda says, Dionisio Borda, public spend, economic crisis, world economic
UK, Saturday October 18, 2008 Alistair Darling says he plans to use public spending to reduce the impact of the economic downturn. Mr Darling: 'Time to support the economy' Despite the squeeze on finances, the Chancellor said he was determined not to...