Greece, now facing severe economic austerity, is accepting gifts, and it is the Chinese who are offering them.
Mr Bouterse's election campaign concentrated on winning over poorer voters who felt let down by the previous government's economic austerity programme.
He says his economic austerity medicine needs time to take affect and he insists that "there's light at the end of the tunnel".
At a time when countless ordinary Britons have been badly squeezed by economic austerity, the charlatans and outright crooks of the City have continued to award themselves outrageous pay packages.
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While oil prices are high and economic-austerity laws limit increases in public spending, there is more or less enough to go around.
Spaniards from all walks of life, from consumers to homeowners to government employees, are worriedly girding for the bite of the harshest economic-austerity program in the nearly four decades since Spain returned to democracy.
Cain proved that economic growth trumps austerity redistribution as a winning political narrative.
Echoing results across Europe, British voters appeared to punish the ruling government, fed up with economic doldrums and austerity measures.
And, in times of economic crisis and austerity, there is no doubt that wider health reforms that the Spanish government is implementing are designed to reduce Spain's overall health bill.
My biggest concern is the collapse of the housing industry in May once the rebates to home-buyers expired, but also that global economic problems and austerity measures seem to only be in their beginning stages, their effects still to reach our shores, while the U.S. economy is apparently already slowing faster than expected on its own.
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The euro zone would never stoop to the mea culpa offered by the IMF in its latest World Economic Outlook, which admits to underestimating badly the effect of austerity in reducing economic output.
The history of austerity in the economic ups and downs of the South American countries should provide a sufficient example of the futility of austerity and the eventual need for a bailout.
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Meanwhile, tough economic times and fiscal austerity have crimped sales in US and Europe.
The euro zone's debt crisis is polarising the politics of austerity and economic pain.
An extended period of economic depression and fiscal austerity can trash the balance sheet of the healthiest bank.
The current Conservative government has no chance of re-election under the current dynamic of austerity, economic recession and fiscal deficit.
Shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie argued that Ireland's problems illustrated the dangers of a "one-track economic strategy built around austerity alone".
"It is no surprise that after a difficult year the economic realities dictate that austerity and debt reduction will take longer, " he added.
Economic hard times and austerity measures are making it more difficult.
The quiet that has been purchased benefits all parties including Israel, but is probably unsustainable in an era of European economic collapse and American austerity.
By contrast, in early 2010, British leaders confronted their economic future and made tough decisions on economic priorities by instituting austerity measures to cut government spending.
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Dictionaries define austerity as economic restriction, scarcity, sternness, hardship.
The movement's current demands focus on the unbalanced distribution of economic costs due to the austerity measures.
That is a huge amount of austerity undertaken amid economic headwinds that make deficit cutting particularly hard.
Yet already we see the growing economic problems created by the austerity programs imposed on countries as requirements for the loans.
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But for cases like Spain and Greece the austerity and continental economic imbalance has caused Depression-like unemployment rates of 25% or more.
More generally, focus on policies that boost economic growth: trade less austerity in the short term for medium-term adjustments, such as a higher retirement age.
The Russian leadership has been pushing for a summit, and with recent legislative battles over Kiriyenko and economic reform, including an austerity budget, ratifying START II is unlikely anytime soon.
In my neighbourhood of Asia, the financial crisis of 1997-1998 brought tremendous pain to many Asian countries, but through austerity and sweeping economic reforms, they recovered relatively quickly and in much better shape.
The global economic downturn, declining exports, and low domestic consumption and fixed asset accumulation, dampened by government austerity measures, resulted in an economic contraction of 6.8% in 2009.
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