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This arrangement is unthinkable without an extremely robust counterpart – for example, prior scrutiny of national budgets.
A couple of weeks after the project was initiated, France and Italy submitted revised annual budgets to the European Commission, in which they demanded more fiscal room for maneuver.
Financing adaptation to climate will be a formidable challenge, particularly as it involves additional costs above traditional development assistance – at a time when foreign-aid budgets are under pressure.
For a short time, asset sales helped balance national budgets, and also provided resources for sustaining consumption.
The competitiveness of their industries, and consumers’ household budgets, suffer accordingly.
State- and local-government budgets are improving, the housing market is strengthening, and households are deleveraging and repairing their balance sheets.
The potential savings in health-care costs would ease pressures on government budgets and release resources to boost growth in the rest of the economy.
These include affordable-housing crises; tight public budgets that make it necessary to squeeze more out of every dollar in infrastructure projects; and lower oil prices putting pressure on capital costs in the hydrocarbons sector.
It was the member states that did politics and budgets.
To allay such concerns, the Obama administration committed to a multi-year increase in the budgets of the US military’s nuclear-weapons laboratories.
In countries like Germany, which have been on the ropes since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, a continuation of stagnation or outright recession would deeply strain budgets and credibility.
The second future could hardly be more different: an Asia of increased tensions, rising military budgets, and slower economic growth.
Cash-strapped local governments spend 30-40% of their budgets on waste management but derive little in return.
That is a consideration that should weigh heavily on indebted governments as they submit their budgets for scrutiny to the European Commission.
This is not a far-fetched scenario, and its realization would play havoc with the budgets of many indebted eurozone member states.
Therefore, in assessing member states’ draft budgets, governments and the Commission would be foolish to assume that low interest rates on government bonds will be around for the foreseeable future.
But in many places, budgets are stagnating, or even declining.
We must end the vicious circle whereby the use of taxpayers’ funds – more than €4.5 trillion ($5.7 trillion) so far – to rescue banks weakens governments’ budgets, while increasingly risk-averse banks stop lending to businesses that need funds, undermining the economy further.
National budgets have shrunk.
The heads of member states’ governments agreed in principle to limit future fiscal deficits by seeking constitutional changes in their countries that would ensure balanced budgets.
Two wars and large defense budgets have given the Pentagon cash and clout to do things traditionally done by diplomats.
But this is hardly a trivial development for low-income families in the developing world, where the share of foodstuffs in household budgets – 46% in India and 33% in China – is 2-3 times the ratio in developed countries.
Policymakers must understand that the eurozone has turned into a straightjacket: tight budgets restrict growth in the peripheral countries that need it the most.
For Central Americans, the cost of drugs will soar, straining budgets and gutting health care.
Whereas Japan and South Korea focused on industrialization, China has urbanization as an overt objective, and its system of financing local government – with cities dependent on land sales to cover their budgets – has intensified the bias toward real-estate development.
Hesitant to leave a large imprint in their wake, some ministries have no budgets, and ministers are reluctant to sign deals with foreign firms.
Spain needs to exercise greater control over its regional governments’ budgets, while Italy needs to shrink the size of its public sector.
Clinton would like to squeeze expenditures on education, environment, science, technology, and infrastructure into his budgets.
New tax revenues ease government budgets.
Public-sector demand has also contracted, owing to state and local governments’ deteriorating budgets.
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