What I did not find was support for your description of the austerity policies as "much needed."

This week we've already had a further demonstration that austerity policies are exactly the wrong thing to be doing.

Nevertheless, the austerity policy continued even after all the debts had been paid.

It has caused job losses and resulted in financial austerity policies.

But his austerity policies - especially an effective pay cut at the local Fiat plant - have turned many of its people against him.

It is clear to us those austerity policies not only hinder economic growth but cause social harm.

Are children bearing the brunt of the coalition's austerity policies?

The people are paying for a tough austerity policy which is under the control of the European Union.

Youths, many of them unemployed, took to the streets to protest Government austerity policies.

The austerity policy, he said, "has the negative effect of canceling dreams.

Faced with serious and worsening economic problems, the government had to adopt an unpopular austerity policy.

Governments sometimes impose austerity policies to reduce budget deficits during adverse economic conditions.

Why should it risk its credibility by association with grinding austerity policies and security forces it cannot control?

His purpose was to stifle criticism of his economic austerity policies.

It has also resorted to austerity policies which have affected prices, employment and real wages.

It is now losing in the polls because of the impact of its ruthless austerity policy.

The five-year program marks a shift in the government's austerity policies concentrating on deficit reduction.

We have heard various governments saying that, in the name of austerity policies, we need a European budget with a 'zero increase'.

This is something which goes well beyond figures and technicalities and even support for national austerity policies.

One particularly damaging austerity policy was the Central Bank Circular 1050.

Both ministers are strong advocates of fiscal austerity policies that many Peruvians reject.

Far from reversing the austerity policies he introduced following last year's election, Osborne reaffirmed them.

We need measures to prevent a counterproductive austerity policy, not punitive measures.

Fiscal austerity policies enacted early in 2012 removed many of these subsidies, however, leading to huge rate and fare increases.

In exchange for further loans, the European Union required neoliberal austerity policies.