The moves are part of an austerity plan to end the country's economic crisis.

If a country abandons an austerity plan, it runs the risk of being cut off from all international aid.

The austerity plan in Zimbabwe was followed by economic problems of increased severity.

Many moshavniks saw themselves as the main victims of the austerity plan.

Suffolk will continue with the austerity plan that I put into effect last year.

The Government's new austerity plan is a painful but appropriate response.

There are also very significant issues that need to be considered around fairness of the austerity plans.

China has announced that the austerity plan is expected to last two more years.

The environmental department, for example, remains under a hiring freeze because its austerity plan has not yet been approved by the state budget office.

However, the markets have fallen once again, unsettled as they are by the austerity plans.