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Moreover, it is difficult for politicians to see that their budgets compete for a limited pool of savings.
While most water-scarce countries regulate the use of desalinated water, decision-makers need to update their investment strategies, water-management policies, and public budgets to integrate the full range of water resources.
In the US, Alexander Hamilton famously negotiated the federal assumption of states’ debt in 1790, but many states behaved badly in the early nineteenth century, with multiple bankruptcies, until they adopted laws or amendments to their constitutions requiring balanced budgets.
Wielding a knife to budgets, however, is not enough.
For their part, the poorest countries could experience a 1-2% increase in their economic-growth rates, while raising their education budgets from about 2% to 5% of GDP.
Access to generic medicines is essential if developing countries, with their limited budgets, are to improve the health of the poor.
National budgets may continue to favor the old ways.
There will be no less than three different, partially overlapping, European procedures – for budgets, macroeconomic imbalances, and financial stability.
To be sure, street protests have already had a profound impact on Algeria’s authoritarian politics, with official fears of massive uprisings affecting public budgets and political appointments.
Instability places enormous strain on national budgets.
China’s success has been driven by cheap exports based on cheap labor, infrastructure built by state enterprises with low-cost bank funding, and government budgets funded by land sales.
Facing economic crisis, widespread unemployment, and rising competition from developing economies, Europe must adjust to technological advances and new modes of working – all while an aging population puts increasing strain on exhausted public budgets.
Their military budgets are expanding, and there are regional rivalries.
In a world of tightening public budgets and growing private wealth, governments cannot provide the required volume of aid on their own.
These resources, €600-700 billion, would replace and not add to national budgets, since they would accompany the transfer of some governmental functions.
The scale of the cocaine trade alone in West Africa dwarfs the combined government budgets of several countries in the region.
The Commission accepts that there are many urgent demands on strapped health-care budgets.
To prevent unchecked military expansion in Asia, defense budgets should be made completely transparent, with verifiable public disclosure.
Health-care costs will rise, increasing the strain on budgets.
Joint arms procurement and closer operational cooperation would yield significant efficiency gains, and reduce the burden on EU member states’ budgets.
But, with nationalism and military budgets rising sharply, achieving consensual stability has become imperative for the region.
Meanwhile, its enemies, particularly Israel and Saudi Arabia, which both have far larger military budgets, were acquiring the most advanced Western military technologies.
Similarly, French prudence will be under scrutiny during discussions of a new European financial framework, which will test France’s capacity to view EU budgets as something other than a means of redistributing EU cash, particularly to farmers.
Combine that with cuts to news budgets, and political coverage becomes a mere endless cycle of sound bites from politicians and their surrogates – not unlike a dedicated sports channel covering a football season.
Waiting for the Fund - Once a currency gets seriously under attack a meltdown will continue until the full IMF treatment (tight budgets, convertible currencies, bank reform) is applied.
The Danish government has sought to break free from this vicious circle by introducing reforms before pledging to increase budgets.
In the US, the commitment to fiscal rectitude followed President Clinton's early realization that balanced budgets would stabilize financial markets, reduce borrowing costs, and thus generate higher growth.
Public spending on infrastructure has plummeted in Europe and the United States since the 1960s; and, with public budgets under strain, it is unlikely to recover.
The politics of this approach will be difficult, particularly in the rich countries; but, structured properly, concerted structural reform could help to restore growth, which would feed back into healthier budgets, more jobs, better balance sheets, and less financial risk.
The biggest practical constraint they face is their public budgets.
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