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Some, including Robert Skidelsky, seem to think that discussion of how the maturity structure of government debt should be managed is somehow a stalking horse for tight budgets and austerity.
Moreover, the current government budgets just $50 annually for each child attending elementary school.
Second, the international financial crisis will have an immense impact on NATO members’ defense budgets.
But a genuine NATO-wide missile-defense system, in which the US grants its partners a decision-making role, would require the Europeans to do more than simply provide cost-neutral contributions – a problem at a time when all of the NATO countries are cutting their defense budgets sharply.
Given that there is little hope of increasing defense expenditures, existing budgets, according to Rasmussen, must be spent in smarter ways.
Members of the African Union recognized this in 2003 in Maputo, Mozambique, pledging to increase spending on agriculture to at least 10% of national budgets.
This will put serious strain on public budgets.
Today’s research budgets are tiny, and that desperately needs to change.
Most face constitutional requirements to run balanced budgets, which means that such states are now either raising taxes or cutting expenditures –a negative stimulus that offsets at least some of the Federal government’s positive stimulus.
What is most likely to precipitate a dollar crash is evidence that US budgets are not being made by responsible adults.
By slashing subsidies from regional budgets, federal revenues increased from 9% of GDP in 1998 to 17% of GDP this year.
Because local governments receive 50% of total national fiscal revenue, but account for 85% of total fiscal expenditure, they try to supplement their budgets through land sales.
Similarly, military integration could boost strategic effectiveness and reduce costs, especially for countries with larger defense budgets.
According to the World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean exported $55 billion of foodstuffs in 2006; yet the continent’s poorest families spend 50% of their budgets on food, and this at a time when Latin America has been experiencing its best economic performance since the 1970’s.
While public media budgets have not grown everywhere – between 2011 and 2015, for example, funding for public media dropped in 40% of the European Broadcasting Union’s 56 member countries – government cash remains influential.
During a recession, such as in 2008-2012, governments are tempted to forecast that their economies and budgets will soon rebound.
Periodic contributions from wealthy governments have propped up lending to poor countries, but these are unlikely to be increased, and some may be discontinued as donors redeploy aid budgets to refugee programs.
National budgets will be challenged at exactly the moment when ASEAN members must increase their investment in reskilling labor forces and developing infrastructure for this new age.
In emerging and developing economies, government budgets are constrained, while the private sector accounts for less than 15% of total infrastructure investment on average.
At the global level, the world’s governments should finally understand that the treaties that they have all signed in recent years on climate, environment, and biodiversity are at least as important to global security as all of the war zones and crisis hotspots that grab the headlines, budgets, and attention.
Trimming the deficit is now the government's biggest challenge, yet it consistently fails even to make the cuts promised in past budgets.
This example is relevant for the politics of public services, which dominates debate in many countries because it lies at the heart of the big problems of both government budgets (and cutting them back) and taxes (and their reduction).
As a result, agreement every seven years on overall expenditures is inadequate to preclude conflict on annual budgets.
Worse, budgets for health, education, sanitation, and women’s security – all major talking points of the BJP’s election campaign – have been cut.
The Bush administration ultimately allocated much more to foreign-aid budgets than Bill Clinton did during his two presidential terms.
And, of course, hard-pressed middle-class American consumers benefit hugely from low-cost Chinese imports – the Walmart effect – that enable them to stretch their budgets in an era of unrelenting pressure on jobs and real incomes.
With the wrong approach, a surging youth population can be destabilizing, and a rapidly aging population can become a burden on economic growth and public budgets.
In far too many countries, fuel is heavily subsidized, straining government budgets and encouraging wasteful consumption.
Enormous subsidies, mainly from local budgets, are allocated for housing.
What makes Gref's program unique among Russian state budgets since 1991 is its realism: the measures it puts forward are not only necessary but feasible.
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