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They pledge allegiance to long-term fiscal responsibility, yet propose
budgets
with large deficits for years to come and big hikes in the debt-GDP ratio.
Some US federal agencies are trying to spend ten times their previous
budgets
– not a recipe for efficiency or speed.
Koizumi slashed a large portion of the
budgets
for public works and abandoned the rural population, which depended on a variety of redistributive schemes.
In low-income countries, which may already spend as much of 20% of their municipal
budgets
on waste management, that figure can rise as high as 93%.
To sustain them, African governments must recommit to the African Union’s Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security, which includes a pledge to channel at least 10% of their
budgets
toward agricultural investment.
With DDT unavailable, many mosquito-control authorities are depleting their
budgets
by repeated spraying with short-acting, marginally effective insecticides.
Shrinking
budgets
are also damaging established scientists.
In Finland, for example, ten years of sustained public funding is now catalyzing private investments and fueling regular increases in R&D
budgets.
In 2004, OECD countries spent more than four times their official development aid
budgets
on support for domestic farmers.
Thailand's lively press is intimidated by the manipulation of the large advertising
budgets
of Thaksin-owned companies and government agencies.
When a country suffers from such a data deficit, its public-health policies, budgets, and strategies are decided by political expediency or guesswork.
Today, as governments around the world cut their budgets, the need for a clear moral basis for economic policymaking is more pressing than ever.
These subsidies have sapped government budgets, encouraged wasteful energy use, and increased pollution and carbon-dioxide emissions.
Now, virtually anyone can enter an Internet café and enjoy a capability that was once available only to governments, multinational corporations, and a few individuals or organizations with large
budgets.
Better management of city assets would also help cover the costs of required maintenance without competing with government budgets, leaving more for spending on health care, education, and other social initiatives.
Too many Americans built no cushion into their budgets, and mortgage companies, focusing on the fees generated by new mortgages, did not encourage them to do so.
Large corporations have resources, lobbying power, advertising budgets, networks, and supply chains of which the UN can only dream.
We all recognize this from our private
budgets.
Fiscal austerity and balanced
budgets
should be priorities in the longer term, but they are inappropriate now.
While some of these funds will come from public budgets, the vast majority will have to be provided by the private sector.
This, in turn, will place a burden on national
budgets
and banking systems – and will challenge politicians across the region.
That same study found that, in many low- and middle-income countries, immunization
budgets
are currently insufficient to sustain vaccination programs, much less incorporate the new costlier vaccines.
What remains of the effort to prevent a repeat of the crisis are tightened EU controls on national
budgets
and, regarding the treaty change to be considered, the continuation of the rescue package (which previously was due to expire in 2013), probably under a different name.
Germany has also continuously failed to meet its commitment to spend 2% of its GDP on defense, at the same time that it has insisted that troubled EU economies stick to austerity
budgets
that limit their deficits to a fixed proportion of their economic output.
Instead, they need to be part of a convincing overall plan that combines responsible state intervention with relief of the financial burdens of individual citizens, as well as savings in public
budgets.
Countries like Brazil did not take advantage of the recovery from 2010 to 2014 to strengthen their budgets, and are now in a difficult position.
In such a situation one needs urgent reforms that create more taxpayers, not fewer as is now the case as a result of partial restructuring without deregulation, good
budgets
and lots of growth.
Whether India needs more institutions to control deficits and monitor the quality of its
budgets
is a question worthy of discussion.
A number of countries have independent organs that pronounce on
budgets.
Finally, moving beyond one-year
budgets
to a multi-year fiscal framework would enhance the stability and efficiency of public spending.
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