The phrase "austerity goals" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial policies or measures aimed at reducing government deficits through spending cuts or increased taxes.
Example: "The government has set ambitious austerity goals to stabilize the economy and reduce the national debt."
Alternatives: "budgetary targets" or "fiscal objectives".
So are German and other European Union leaders concerned about keeping Italy committed to the punishing austerity goals agreed to by former governments.
With congress in revolt, the government's austerity goals are being sabotaged by proposals to increase spending on police chiefs, prosecutors and lawyers.
Frustration elsewhere in Europe has been mounting over whether Greece is sticking with the austerity goals it agreed to follow in order to qualify for the aid, and German voters in particular are wary of more handouts.
Well, it's possible that the Europeans will promise Greece to keep the money flowing so long as the austerity plans are adopted, the plans will be adopted, and everyone will continue on their merry way for a little while until Greece once again has to admit that it's falling short of clearly unattainable austerity goals.
It projects outlays of $994 billion, revenue of $850.4 billion, and a deficit of nearly $144 billion, which is within the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings austerity goals for fiscal 1987.
S&P's agenda has appeared to be political for a long time, and it looks as if its retrofitting its "analysis" yet again to mirror the austerity economics goals of its paymasters.
Release of the loans has been tied to Indonesia's progress towards a series of goals -- austerity measures, fiscal targets, deregulation and other economic reforms.
Conservative MPs are as one in their support for the goals of austerity – a budget surplus by 2020 and the drastic changes to the shape of the state that implies.
But the SNP also wants Trident to be scrapped and an immediate end to austerity, not to mention its ultimate goal of independence for Scotland.
The audience cheered as she said: "Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity.
The next year, the economy fell into recession.In America in 1968, as in Europe today, austerity was an explicit goal.
