Sentences with phrase «public expenditure with»

Given that this is meant to be very targeted public expenditure with measurable results, the question of exactly how these families are selected is relevant to discussion of the merits of the policy.

Not exact matches

Now, for over twenty years, hes helped businesses, nonprofits, and community groups get their message out to the public with little or no expenditure.

During the past year, the Audit Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the Company's risk assessment and compliance functions, information security, public policy expenditures, treasury and investment matters, accounting industry issues, the reappointment of our independent auditor, and pending litigation.

Even as transfer payments continued to grow with GDP, nominal direct program expenditures — mainly spending on public - service wages — have either declined or been held constant.

The fact is that, with the word «relapse» added to make things sound OK, the «no cure — treatment — relapse» disorder became a sump - hole for millions upon millions of dollars in public and private expenditures.

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

However, at a glance, the consultants recorded a 42 % level of implementation across the 36 states, other percentages are 60 % for Public expenditure reforms as against 69 % from the NGF, 56 % for PFM which is the same with what the Forum recorded and 35 % level of implementation for public debt as against 54 % recorded by thPublic expenditure reforms as against 69 % from the NGF, 56 % for PFM which is the same with what the Forum recorded and 35 % level of implementation for public debt as against 54 % recorded by thpublic debt as against 54 % recorded by the NGF.

«According to the NGFS findings, «the action point with the highest percentage of implementation is that of Public Expenditure Reform, which recorded 69 % success, the NGFS Economist, Nabena disclosed.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

Public Investment into infrastructure is on the decline in Ghana, with capital expenditure as a percentage of GDP having come down from 11 % to 5.7 % on average.

What is required is discipline in managing the public finances, with a root and branch review of all current expenditure commitments.

Mr. Speaker, on the expenditure front, we have shown our commitment to eliminate expenditure overruns and will remain committed to continue with the design and implementation of the Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms with the aim of eliminating inefficient and ineffective allocation of resources.

They argue that «debt - service payments force governments to reduce public health expenditures -LSB-... and show that] each additional $ 40,000 of health spending is associated with one less infant death» in Africa (p. 82).

In line with the Ministry's goal of increasing the penetration of renewable energy in the energy mix and the promotion of distributed solar power for government and public buildings, the Ministry will embark on an MDA Solar Rooftop Programme dubbed «Government Goes Solar» to reduce Government's expenditure on utilities.

With a projected revenue of N3.86 trillion in the face of dwindling crude oil receipts, government estimates that oil revenues contribute N820 billion of the total revenue; non-oil revenues, comprising Company Income Tax, CIT, Value Added Tax, VAT, Customs and Excise duties, and Federation Account levies, are expected to contribute N1.45 trillion; while independent revenues are expected to contribute N1.51 trillion through the enforcement of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007 and public expenditure reforms in all MDAs.

To conceal the payments and to avoid public scrutiny of his decision to retain the staffer for campaign work — the state contends Maziarz and others falsely reported the expenditures on five separate filings with the Board of Elections.

According to public filings and bank records subpoenaed by the Moreland Commission, the Maziarz campaign failed to report more than $ 325,000 in expenditures since 2008, including more than 300 checks made out to «cash» with no indication of who ultimately received the money.

Even with the ever - increasing threat of independent expenditures, almost all candidates participated in the public financing program, likely because the amplification of grassroots support through public matching funds is an effective way to defend against independent spending.

They include a pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race, new disclosure rules for independent expenditure groups, and the creation of an independent office at the State Board of Elections charged with enforcing the state's oft - flouted election laws.

In line with accounting conventions, interest on the National Debt is treated as part of public revenue expenditure, and therefore counts against the annual PSNCR.

The Strategic Thinkers Network - Africa (STRANEK) is of the strong view that the list of staffers at the Presidency as submitted to Parliament in accordance with section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463) results in a wasteful expenditure which is not in tandem with President Akufo Addo's policy of protecting and saving the public purse from profligate expenditure and wanton abuse.

To conceal the payments — and to avoid public scrutiny of his decision to retain the former staffer for work on campaigns — the state contends Maziarz and others falsely reported the expenditures on five separate filings with the State Board of Elections.

This will allow other government agencies and watchdog groups to easily combine political contribution data on the NYOG site with state and city contracting and public expenditure data.

Such personal use will be defined as expenditures that are exclusively for personal benefit of the candidate or any other individual, not in connection with a political campaign or holding of a public office or party position.

(b) Each Democratic organization shall have a written constitution which provides among other things (i) that the annual election of officers be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization; (ii) that membership in the organization be open to all enrolled Democrats residing in the political subdivision for which the organization is to function; (iii) that there be periodic financial reports to the membership, with at least one report each year and that the receipts and expenditures of the organization may be reviewed upon the written request of any member of the organization at a reasonable time and place fixed by an officer of the organization designated for that purpose; (iv) that endorsement of all candidates for party position or public office in the party primary be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization.

Two months after Foley's relationship to Voters for Good Government became public in the elections enforcement settlement, Tyrrell filed papers with the IRS creating a new independent - expenditure group: Grow Connecticut, Inc..

The other newcomer, John Hinson, was also thinking along the lines of better communication with Gardiner residents, notably with regard to financial accountability and public tracking of town expenditures.

«Throughout the history of the presidential public finance system, the program has operated admirably to the point of fairly equalizing campaign expenditures between the major party candidates, and providing primary candidates with the resources to be able to run campaigns,» said Holman «It made elections very competitive, quite open and fairly scandal - free.»

It could be recalled that the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun introduced the FSP for Sub-National Governments in 2016 to which State Governments acceded, with the view to enhancing fiscal prudence and transparency in public expenditure.

With outside spending groups expected to again play a major role in New York's 2016 elections, the state Board of Elections has posted for public comment draft rules regulating such independent expenditure committees.

Pataki's spending put him at odds with NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who has been decrying the skyrocketing of undisclosed contributions to independent expenditures thanks to the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

The Times drives him crazy; he thinks its editorial board is obsessed with public financing of campaigns, a reform Cuomo says he supports, even though he's dubious that it has much relevance in the age of big - money independent - expenditure committees.

Last but not least, continuing the #tTransparencyTuesday theme of busting open campaign finance to the public, our County Secretary Ben Yee how to do your own Independent Expenditures (i.e., BE A SUPERPAC) with step - by - step instructions.

Jobs for New York, which retained the lobbying and consulting firm Mercury Public Affairs to assist in its independent expenditure efforts, is heavily focused on GOTV, according to a source familiar with its plans.

«Conduct and activities of The Advance Group during the last election cycle may have involved the coordinating of independent expenditure Super PACs with official campaigns, and The Advance Group provided unpaid lobbying services to a public official and, as a consequence, The Advance Group will benefit from selling access to the public official to influence official acts,» the complaint alleges.

«We must replace the public embarrassment of existing campaign financing laws, which allow enormous contributions and unlimited expenditures, with a system of reasonable limits that levels the playing field and ensures that meritorious candidates are not discouraged by the costs of running for public office.»

The group says it has filed 2,500 public records requests with government agencies across the state, including tiny villages and school districts, asking for their «checkbooks» — records of all expenditures in a given year.

«It would be hard to come up with a public safety reason why every expenditure under the Police Department would have to be masked.

Batra has previously gone public with his anger over a commission decision that effectively allowed the Committee to Save New York, a deep - pocketed Cuomo ally, to avoid disclosing its donors and expenditures in detail.

«To conceal these payments — and to avoid public scrutiny of his decision to retain the former staffer for campaign - related work — Maziarz, acting with others, falsely reported the expenditures on five separate filings with the New York State Board of Elections as payments to pass - through entities,» Schneiderman said.

In addition a review of the expenditure reports and donations for the Independence Party that are on public file demonstrated the potential that funds from the Independence Party may have been used for the collection of signatures in the contested Republican Party primary that was being waged by Legislator Frank Sparaco with the help of Clarkstown's Superintendent of Highways, Wayne Ballard, in a continuing strategy to consolidate political power under Vinny Reda and himself and thereby thwart reform.

He said: «It was Roy Jenkins who warned that governments could not keep pushing up public expenditure and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice».

«The public doesn't believe that the corruption (in New York) has to do with independent expenditure campaigns,» said Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York.

However, despite growing, ICT R&D public funding falls short 700 million euros of the target in 2011 with regards to Digital Agenda targets which aim at doubling ICT R&D public expenditure by the year 2020 from 2007.

It is not possible to operate a small facility without taking huge losses each year, and a big facility with more features could be considered an unnecessary waste of public expenditures.

[2] Focusing on public, non-selective institutions between 1990 and 2013, the authors use institution - level data on enrollments, degree completions, tuition prices, total revenues, and expenditures from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and augment this with data on how much state legislatures appropriate for higher education each year.

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.

With close to a $ 10.5 trillion economy, the unrealized gain for 2002 alone would have amounted to $ 450 billion, or more than the nation's total annual expenditure on K - 12 public education.

Total Federal Government funding per student for Australian public schools rose by 115.2 per cent over the past decade, compared with 15.8 per cent for private schools although the total Federal Government expenditure per student is still higher for private school students at $ 6434 compared with $ 1915 for public school students.

The latest example: Michael Fletcher, writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, who misleads his readers with the following: «The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.»