The phrase "austerity focus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing policies, strategies, or approaches that prioritize reducing spending and managing resources conservatively.
Example: "The government's austerity focus has led to significant cuts in public services."
Alternatives: "fiscal restraint" or "budgetary discipline".
It should be reducing the austerity, focusing more on temporary tax cuts to get the economy moving". Posen has consistently argued for looser monetary policy to counteract a lack of bank lending.
He sees a Canadian connection: "The UK has cherrypicked various things from Canada: a central bank governor, austerity focused on spending cuts rather than tax hikes… Indeed, Canada already allows the cost of childcare to be deducted from personal tax bills".
In a time of austerity, focusing regional development money on a few areas and industries may look more cost-effective.
Customers - supposedly "austerity focused" - are happy to pay high prices to be associated with the Apple brand, which, at $124bn (according to Forbes), is the most valuable in the world.
With Rajoy's government balking — rightly — at further austerity, the focus is now where it arguably should have been all along.
Plain is not necessarily rugged: this section includes a set of white porcelain soba cups that evince a Bauhaus simplicity of form; to the untrained eye they might seem to foreshadow Zen austerity, the focus of the show's third section.
In this second of three entries on fiscal austerity I focus on public policy.
This is a statement of intent, directed partly at reassuring his party, partly at signalling to the country and partly to the Conservatives, that he will not allow the next phase of austerity to focus on the poorest in the land.
Alfonso Montero, ESN's chief executive, says some European countries are emerging from austerity and focusing more on investing in services.
When not fixated on bond-market anxieties, proponents of fiscal austerity have focused on variants of the "crowding out" argument that a high and rising government debt crowds out private investment and reduces economic growth.
