Keynesian economists like James K . Galbraith and Thomas Piketty, along with Nobel prize in Economics recipients Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, individually expressed their support for the " No " vote on the referendum, arguing that the current austerity programme is a bad option from an economic point of view.
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Feminist Fightback's " Cuts Are a Feminist Issue " featured in Issue 49 of Soundings Journal ( published online in 2011 by the New Left Project ) described the particular gendered impact of the austerity programme and " how the government's cutbacks in social provision are privatising work that is crucial to the sustenance of life ".
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Horn is remembered as the last Communist Foreign Minister of Hungary who played a major role in the demolishing of the " Iron Curtain " for East Germans in 1989, contributing to the later unification of Germany, and for the Bokros package, the biggest fiscal austerity programme in post-communist Hungary, launched under his premiership, in 1995.
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The budget guidelines of 1999 are in line with the 8th national economic and social development plan which has been adjusted to the International Monetary Fund's austerity programme . The Budget Bureau suggests the following urgent measures to increase national competitiveness . Restructuring of the agricultural sector :-Emphasis on the potential of each regional area for unique development and production with minimal affects on the environment .-Promote the addition of value on agro-industry and farm processing products and increase productivity.
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The same month, Poul Thomsen, a Danish IMF official overseeing the Greek austerity programme, warned that ordinary Greeks were at the " limit " of their toleration of austerity, and he called for a higher International recognition of " the fact that Greece has already done a lot fiscal consolidation, at a great cost to the population "; and moreover cautioned that although further spending cuts were certainly still needed, they should not be implemented rapidly, as it was crucial first to give some more time for the implemented economic reforms to start to work.
