An outfit unaccustomed to penury still needs to save £100m a year.
Italian governments have tinkered with the pensions system on three occasions, but have shrunk from the drastic overhaul that is needed to save Italy's greying population from old-age penury in the generation ahead.
The objective, of course, should be a system of benefits that encourages people to work their way out of penury, and an economy that does not result in so many people needing welfare in the first place.
This will mean cuts not just in personnel but also in expertise.The museum reckons it needs an extra £6m a year to avoid falling headlong into penury.
At the end he was huge, stranded, nearly alone, his life littered by the needs (or the appearance) of more and more children, and by what was reported as near penury.
Barnsley did what they needed to do with ease against a Swindon side worn out by the ravages of relegation and penury, barely capable of playing even for pride.
As other countries struggle with fiscal penury and the need to find new sources of growth, the government's approach to Silicon Roundabout could become a model to emulate.Entrepreneurs in the district welcome the attention.
AIDS makes Africa even poorer, and so less stable, although some recent studies suggest that it may affect slightly fewer millions than previously estimated (see article).If Africans are to have a chance of pulling themselves out of penury, they need governments that do not stand in their way.
