Sentences with phrase «cent in government spending»

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Program spending was up $ 8.3 billion, or 3.3 per cent, due to increases in major transfers to persons and other levels of government and direct program expenses.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

«That's why we put forward a budget that speaks to strategic investments in economic growth and job creation, while at the same time transforming government by achieving our savings targets and limiting program spending growth to 1.1 per cent.»

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.

Under the Canada Economic Action Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been cut.

Professor Scarthe also recommends that, once the deficit is eliminated in 2015 - 16, any future government should gradually start creating a deficit by, for example, spending on infrastructure and this could be done while at the same time maintaining a stable debt to GDP ratio of around 25 per cent over the medium to longer term.

Although China is still set for sub-8 per cent growth in 2012, its weakest in more than a decade, momentum picked up noticeably in the fourth quarter after the government increased its spending on infrastructure.

The negotiation of a «fair» agreement for taxpayers with Quebec's 430,000 public workers, whose payroll absorbed 59 per cent — or $ 37.3 billion — of government spending in 2013 - 14.

The Liberal government spends only five per cent of the province's GDP on agri - food (far below the national average of 14 per cent), cut thesuccessful Buy B.C. program, and in 2009 cut theAgriculture and Lands budget by 25.4 per cent.

In other words, the federal government is today spending nearly 50 per cent more real dollars per citizen than it did a decade ago.

Government spending shrank an annual rate of 0.9 per cent in the second quarter, much worse than the 0.4 per cent drop initially estimated.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

A dollar of government spending supplants up to 50 cents in private donations, notes Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, in Who Really Cares.

He said the government spent 30.7 per cent of domestic revenue in 2015 on interest payments, which jumped to 32.0 per cent in 2016.

In order to pay for higher pensions pay - outs, Lord Turner recommended the amount of money the government spends on the state pension increase from 6.2 per cent of gross domestic product, as it is today, to between 7.5 and eight per cent.

The coalition government's first Spending Review in 2010 set an ambitious target to reduce running (administration) costs by 34 per cent in real terms by 2014 - 15.

In our analysis of 100 years of fiscal squeezes in the UK, we found that hard revenue or spending squeezes were associated with a 77 to 86 per cent likelihood of the incumbent parties in government losing at the next general election, compared with the 38 to 42 per cent likelihood of losing the next election that was associated with soft revenue and spending squeezeIn our analysis of 100 years of fiscal squeezes in the UK, we found that hard revenue or spending squeezes were associated with a 77 to 86 per cent likelihood of the incumbent parties in government losing at the next general election, compared with the 38 to 42 per cent likelihood of losing the next election that was associated with soft revenue and spending squeezein the UK, we found that hard revenue or spending squeezes were associated with a 77 to 86 per cent likelihood of the incumbent parties in government losing at the next general election, compared with the 38 to 42 per cent likelihood of losing the next election that was associated with soft revenue and spending squeezein government losing at the next general election, compared with the 38 to 42 per cent likelihood of losing the next election that was associated with soft revenue and spending squeezes.

In the initial petition, a litany of allegations have been levelled against her, including spending GH cents 3.9 million to partition an office, receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the erstwhile John Mahama - led NDC government, spending about $ 14 million when the Public Procurement Authority had authorised her to use only $ 7.5 million, as well as attending Cabinet meetings during the tenure of the President John Mahama, among other issues.

Our government spends nearly # 400 million a year on advertising to reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280 million people.

Despite significant cost pressures on local government, our relentless pursuit of value for money has meant that we have cut council spending by # 7 million (or 4 per cent) in cash terms, cut the workforce by 18 per cent (or 950 full - time equivalent employees) and cut the council's debt by # 20 million.

We suggested the National Audit Office look at the figures in 2012 and they found that only about six per cent of government spending was directed at early action.

Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto on Thursday told parliament that the government has so far spent GH cents 157,023,174.00 on its «Planting for Food and Jobs» programme in the southern sector and the three northern regions.

According to Ministry of Education statistics, considering the current enrolment figure of 47,000 in the colleges, the government would have spent GH cents 282 million on allowances last year if the allowance regime had been in place, since each student received GH cents 500 a year.

In total, the government is expected to spend at least GH cents 18 million monthly on the projected number of students, with GH cents 9.18 million of the amount going to the trainees in monthly allowances, while GH cents 8.82 million goes to the colleges for feeding and the payment of utilitieIn total, the government is expected to spend at least GH cents 18 million monthly on the projected number of students, with GH cents 9.18 million of the amount going to the trainees in monthly allowances, while GH cents 8.82 million goes to the colleges for feeding and the payment of utilitiein monthly allowances, while GH cents 8.82 million goes to the colleges for feeding and the payment of utilities.

Economic recovery will be another casualty, as the government's attack on pay for nurses, social workers, paramedics, and PCSOs will hit spending power, and the 25 per cent department cuts will have a devastating impact on jobs, driving down much - needed demand in our economy.

With a budget deficit of over 11 per cent of GDP, one pound in every four that the last government spent was borrowed.

In today's white paper Mr Alexander revealed the government planned to reach its millennium development goal of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on aid by 2013, two years before the UN's deadline.

Spending in these areas will rise by 0.4 per cent in real terms, far smaller increases than they enjoyed under the last government.

Economic recovery will be another casualty, as the government's attack on pay for nurses, social workers, paramedics, and PCSOs will hit spending power, and the 25 per cent departmental cuts will have a devastating impact on jobs, driving down much - needed demand in our economy.

Earlier this week, the government set out its comprehensive spending review (CSR) outlining plans to cut funding for social housing by more than 60 per cent, with new tenants in line to pay higher rents.

More changes are expected in the autumn spending review when some government departments face cuts in the order of 25 per cent, the chancellor warned.

Government figures show that spending on Housing Benefit rose in real terms by 34.7 per cent between 2007 - 08 and 2013 - 14.

As part of the government's comprehensive spending review, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is facing cuts of 10 - 20 per cent in its annual # 37bn budget.

Asked what the next government should do in the event that it has to find more money than it expects, 30 per cent said it should increase taxes more than planned «in order to limit the impact on public services», but 55 per cent preferred to «reduce spending more than planned, in order NOT to increases taxes further».

72 per cent of British adults believe Ed Miliband should spend more time outlining what Labour would do in government if they won the next General Election, according to an ITV News Index poll.

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II Lamido Sanusi, Wednesday in Kaduna raised alarm that the federal government spends a whooping 66 per cent of Nigerian...

But this 10 per cent cut wasn't a carefully cooked Conservative ploy - it was based on the spending figures the government had itself set out in the budget.

The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) said government spending in these areas made up less than one per cent of its total budget and had proven benefits.

Equally pertinent is the fact that the 0.5 per cent fall in output in the fourth quarter of 2010 can not be attributed to Government cuts because there weren't any; spending was actually 5 per cent higher than in the same period of 2009, which rather holes Mr Balls's case below the waterline.

«If governments spent one cent more on social services per dollar spent on health by rearranging money between the two portfolios, life expectancy could have experienced an additional 5 % increase and potentially avoidable mortality could have experienced an additional 3 % decrease in one year.»

According to the research, every one per cent fall in government spending in Greece leads to a 0.43 per cent rise in suicides among men.

Scientists are now worse off than ever and government spending on basic research is lower than in any comparable industrialised nation (O. 24 per cent of GDP in the UK, against 0.33 per cent in France and O. 4 per cent in the US).

Filled with new spending and over one trillion dollars in tax increases, his proposal once again fails to balance the budget and continues to borrow 25 cents for every dollar the federal government spends.

Every dollar spent in the year in which it is credited to the CESA costs the government a dollar and moves the overall expenditure towards the upper bound, whereas every dollar saved and carried forward in the CESA costs the government 50 cents, when it is eventually spent, and moves the overall expenditure towards the lower bound.

At a time when train shipments of crude oil are expected to skyrocket in Canada, the federal government is cutting funding for Transport Canada, the country's transportation regulator, by almost 30 per cent, down to $ 1.5 billion, according to government spending estimates for 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14.

Corruption in China is concentrated in those sectors with extensive state involvement, such as infrastructure projects and government procurement: «To estimate roughly the direct costs of corruption, we can suppose that 10 per cent of government spending, contracts and transactions, is used as kickbacks and bribes or is simply stolen».

In the budget, which was announced on Tuesday, Quebec's justice department remains the poor cousin of major ministries with a 1.3 - per - cent share of the $ 108 billion that the Quebec government plans to spend in the coming yeaIn the budget, which was announced on Tuesday, Quebec's justice department remains the poor cousin of major ministries with a 1.3 - per - cent share of the $ 108 billion that the Quebec government plans to spend in the coming yeain the coming year.

In the challenge, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations argue the federal government, which is responsible for funding social programs on reserves, is discriminating by spending 22 per cent less on child - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off reserves.

The report says Ottawa's regional economy is still feeling the effects of government spending cuts, which weakened demand and slowed price increases, but economic growth expected in 2014 will help increase demand and unit sales by about 2.5 per cent per year from 2015 to 2017.