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...China itself has invested in infrastructure in Asian economies, such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan, through its Belt and Road Initiative....
...But instead of tightening the government’s belt, Truss and Kwarteng added £45bn of additional borrowing for their tax cuts....
...The volume of retail sales in Great Britain fell for the second consecutive month in June as high inflation pushed consumers to tighten their belts....
...People in the core working-age group — those aged 30 to 49 — are tightening their belts the most, with a higher share reporting that they had to borrow money, were cutting spending and were unable to afford...
...Samuel Tombs, economist at consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, said he expected GDP to contract 0.4 per cent in the second quarter as health spending declines and consumers tighten their belts....
...In Faringdon, Thompson, 37, says he is “definitely belt tightening”, cutting down on car trips. “I’m going out less. It’s a sign of the times.”...
...But it must be persuaded to cancel current plans to build yet more domestic coal plants — and stop financing those in its Belt and Road Initiative....
...“Ports took a hard look at their cost base and tightened their belts during the pandemic,” said Shyamali Rajivan, director of infrastructure and project finance at Fitch ratings....
...Her new job in an accident and emergency department is more “conveyor belt.” “Suddenly I haven’t thought about Covid for a couple of days.”...
...“You look around here,” says Chris Musgrave, gesturing at a patchwork of grassland, arable fields, hedgerows, fir belts and deciduous copses. “Back when I started in 1983 there wasn’t a flipping tree.”...
...As luck would have it, the scrubby-looking mountain behind his winery was also rich in fynbos — a belt of vegetation unique to the Western Cape, made up of more than 1,000 native plants — and soon the pair...
...‘La La Land’ is out in the US now and is released in the UK on January 13 Photographs: Vera Anderson/WireImage; Dale Robinette...
...An insurance industry veteran with stints at Aviva, RSA and Willis under his belt, McCafferty is now chief executive of Flood Re, a body that began operating in April....
...And in Dale’s opinion the reduction in the US energy deficit has certainly contributed to the dollar’s appreciation in recent years....
...Carter Jonas’s Simon Wright believes that fast rail lines between Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool are “comparable in scale to Crossrail”, the high-speed service set to expand London’s commuter belt to the...
...pubs in the Yorkshire Dales national park....
...The devastating effects of drought across the US farm belt reduced estimates of annualised economic growth for the second quarter from 1.7 per cent to 1.3 per cent....
...Americans may be tightening their belts as uncertainty builds over the strength of the nation’s labour market, highlighted by a dismal May jobs report and elevated claims for unemployment insurance....
...From his office inside a red brick warehouse in Cleveland, Ohio, Dale Fellows – whose company prints everything from business cards to billboards – exudes satisfaction at Mitt Romney’s aggressive tone on...
...On a personal note, it made me nostalgic to see the contributions of Monkhouse’s daughter Abigail, with whom I was at primary school in London in a class that included the children of Jim Dale, Ivor Cutler...
...“There is a highly protected green belt and it is very difficult to get planning consent.”...
...Sheffield and Doncaster to the unspoilt beauty of the upland Dales....
...Similar words resounded around the dales and vales this week in response to a report from Policy Exchange, a London-based think-tank....
...Although he knew both Dai and Dale, he seemed little affected by their deaths, friends say....
...Another huge 255lb meteorite from Namibia, once part of the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter, would also prove a decorative talking point. It is expected to make around $120,000....
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