In the current situation both Labour and the Coalition would cut deeply and dramatically, the gap between them at around 1 per
cent of public expenditure per year is smaller than either would like to acknowledge and since Labour privately admit they would have needed to increase the rate of cutback originally envisaged by Alistair Darling in pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yet.
Not exact matches
On legislative votes, the PCs and Wildrose voted together 90.2 per
cent of the time, and on money votes — matters concerning the
expenditure of public funds — they voted together 95.8 per
cent of the time, the study found.
The earlier petition against her, alleged among others the funneling
of GH
cents 3.9 million to partition an office, the receipt
of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the Mahama government, the
expenditure of about $ 14 million when the
Public Procurement Authority had authorized her to use only $ 7.5 million.
A national opinion poll conducted immediately after the 2012 Olympics found that 55 per
cent of respondents believed that the
public expenditure of the Games had been well worth the investment.
This program may yet lift the performance
of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out
of Australia's total
expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per
cent was met from the
public purse — compared with an OECD average
of 82 per
cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.
Less than half
of the
expenditure on early childhood education comes from
public sources (47 per
cent), the second lowest share among OECD countries.
As per the World Bank estimates, India's
public financing for healthcare is less than 1 per
cent of the world's total health
expenditure, even though it is home to over 16 per
cent of the world's population.