Mr Karzai's visit came after an attempt to kick start peace talks in the Qatari capital of Doha foundered in June.
VAT was cut from 17.5%to15%5% in November's pre-budget report in an attempt to kick-start consumer spending.
In the autumn, Mr Osborne will announce further plans to relax business regulations, employment law and planning bureaucracy in an attempt to kick-start the supply side of the economy.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, Aug. 10 — A month after talks on the future of Kosovo foundered at the United Nations Security Council, envoys from the United States, the European Union and Russia began a three-day visit to the region on Friday in an attempt to kick-start a new round of negotiations.
IN AN attempt to kick-start Germany's stalled economy, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is preparing to lop an additional euro25 billion ($30 billion) off income taxes from the beginning of next year, in the hope that the country's nervous consumers will open their wallets.
And an attempt to kick-start its perennially noncompetitive morning news program, "The Early Show," blew up recently when Shelley Ross, the producer brought in to pump up the ratings, was fired only six months into her tenure.
The prime minister announced the £1.5bn "fast start" finance in December, in an attempt to kick-start negotiations at the faltering UN climate talks in Copenhagen.
Fears have been raised that the attempt to kick-start the market could result in a house price "bubble", with the market overheating and borrowers over-stretching themselves.
His first attempts to kick start the economy were old-fashioned and failed.
'Alex Cross' (PG-13, 1 41) Tyler Perry stars in this grim, maladroit attempt to kick-start a new franchise pegged to the James Patterson character played in two earlier movies by Morgan Freeman.
Manager Russell Slade has not been impressed with the former Manchester United midfielder's attempt to kick-start his career since his arrival in September.
