TEHRAN, Jul 14 -Markets and wholesale merchants across Pakistan closed in a strike by businesses against measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund to crack down on tax evasion and bolster the country’s depleted public finances.
TEHRAN, May 21- The British government’s cuts to welfare over the past decade have caused a “hunger crisis” by leaving tens of thousands of poor families across the country without enough food to eat, according to a damning report by Human Rights Watch.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has revealed the government's plan to increase the minimum wage to €650 in a move to end austerity .
TEHRAN, December 28 - Cash-strapped Cuba plans fresh austerity measures and will pressure the sluggish bureaucracy to tighten its belt and cut red tape to address weak growth, falling export earnings and rising debt.
TEHRAN, November 16 - In the Buenos Aires metro, Roberto stands in his empty snack bar and shrugs as people hurry past. He knows the problem: "There's simply no money," he says.
TEHRAN, October 28 -British finance minister Philip Hammond warned rebels in his Conservative Party that he would have to quickly reverse plans to ease nearly a decade of austerity if London fails to get a Brexit deal.
TEHRAN, September 18 - Lower-than-expected sales in an auction of Pakistani government vehicles have dealt another early setback to new Prime Minister Imran Khan's populist vow to raise quick revenues through cost-cutting, a campaign that has drawn both praise and ridicule.
TEHRAN, September 04 - Argentina's president Mauricio Macri on Monday announced he was slashing his government's bureaucracy in half and restoring taxes on grain exporters as part of sweeping new austerity measures to stabilize the economy.
TEHRAN, June 13 - Egypt's President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi defended his government's latest austerity measures aimed at rebuilding the country's ailing economy, amid a wave of arrests since his re-election.
TEHRAN, January 14 - Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated peacefully against government austerity measures in the capital after nearly a week of sometimes violent protests on Sunday, the seventh anniversary of the ousting of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
TEHRAN, July 3, YJC - Thousands of people in London have held demonstrations against British austerity policies and other policies of Theresa May administration.
Global economic downturn made certain European countries including Greece to adopt austerity measures. Many people in this country are suffering poverty.
ATHENS, Jan 25, 2015 (AFP) - The leader of the radical left-wing Syriza party poised to win Greece's parliamentary election on Sunday said that Europe must find an alternative to austerity .