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Moreover, at the moment, education budgets are often regressive, with almost half of spending in the poorest countries allocated to the most educated 10% of the population.
Budgets must be focused on the most excluded children, and primary education must be free at the point of use, so that every child can learn.
We also urgently need more transparency and accountability, so that budgets are visible and communities have a say in school governance.
Citizen-based redistricting, open primaries, changes to term limits, majority-vote budgets, a rainy-day fund, and legislative transparency have all been the direct result of civic-minded leaders deploying the initiative process for the public good.
As national budgets shrink under the effects of austerity, the EU should review member states’ spending on security.
To coordinate fiscal policy, however, you need to know the effects of proposed budgets.
Instead of hearing more lectures from the IMF about cutting budgets, poor countries need larger budgets to pay for the required investments - roads, power supplies, ports, schools, and health clinics - to jump-start economic growth.
US stocks are overpriced for a world in which inflation is not totally dead and Japanese bonds are overpriced for the simple reason that the country's debt is huge and the budgets deficits on its horizon seemingly stretch forever.
Central myths about Putin the healer of the nation and the supplier of giveaway budgets are collapsing.
In a blindly mechanical way, the U.S. had taken the view that all major UN agencies should keep their budgets unchanged in nominal (current-dollar) terms, leading to a drop in real spending because of inflation.
Such a simple-minded budget policy as an across-the-board freeze in nominal budgets should be ended immediately.
When that crisis broke, the IMF quickly committed itself to more than $100 billion in loans to the four countries involved, subject to conditions agreed on with the IMF, conditions on government budgets, monetary policies, banking regulations, and the like, varying somewhat from country to country.
In retrospect, many observers, myself included, believe that much of the advice was based on the IMF’s experience with countries whose problem derived from excessive government spending and budgets and was not appropriate to East Asia, where the problem was not a fiscal crisis but a banking crisis -- in Japan as well as in the pegged exchange rate countries.
Relinquishing some control over national budgets to achieve fiscal integration appears politically impossible, and talk of treaty changes – even if it comes from the German finance minister – amounts to little more than empty rhetorical finery.
The effect of that on households’ budgets and companies’ costs is hardly cause for celebration.
In April 2001, African leaders – representing many of the poorest countries on earth – signed the Abuja Declaration pledging to allocate at least 15% of their annual budgets to improve health.
She usually had a strong grasp of issues relating to the standard of living; and yet she failed to comprehend the impact that a new poll tax would have on household budgets.
Despite efforts to promote fiscal-policy coordination, eurozone members’ budgets still fall under the purview of separate national authorities, and northern Europeans continue to oppose transfers from more to less prosperous countries beyond the very limited allowance of the European Union’s regional funds.
Given aging populations in industrial countries, large commitments from governments to social-insurance systems, and no clear plans for balancing government budgets in the long run, we would expect to see inflation and risk premiums – perhaps not substantial, but clearly visible – priced into even the largest and richest economies’ treasury debt.
But when the Great Recession hit, states and cities were forced to slash their budgets.
Nor can we overlook the banal bargaining of European leaders, the quarrels over budgets, and the rise of national egoisms whenever elections loom.
Consumers are hurting worldwide, especially the poor, for whom food takes a major bite out of household budgets.
The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy is a classic example – and is disastrous for EU budgets, economic efficiency, and consumer pocketbooks.
They are rule-bound and dull; they have routines, committees, agendas, budgets – and rows about budgets.
And the impact of climate change is increasingly, though still inadequately, being factored into national and local budgets.
Aging populations are forcing many countries to address pressures on their budgets and social security systems.
Nuclear fusion research budgets have remained below that line for 30 years.
Traditionally, America's Republican Party stood for balanced budgets.
It is the direct result of a structurally flawed system that strands the needs of schoolchildren between humanitarian aid budgets (98% of which go to food, shelter, and health care) and development aid (which is necessarily long term).
Puerto Rico is not Greece; successive governors of the island have introduced budgets they thought were balanced, only to find that inadequate growth led to lower revenues and higher expenditures than had been projected.
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