Sentences with phrase «spending side of the ledger»

On the spending side of the ledger, the priorities have been agriculture support (after two weak monsoons), rural development spending, infrastructure investments and a massive structural shift to direct benefit transfers deposited in the bank accounts of beneficiaries — made possible by the extraordinary biometric identity card program (Aadhaar) covering 950 million people, and the impressive financial inclusion initiative which has opened over 200 million new bank accounts for impoverished families.

Asked whether the tax plan will add to the deficit, Ryan said, «We need to keep focused on the spending side of the ledger as well.»

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The cases do not deal directly with school finance or with the spending side of states» ledgers.

And Joseph Romm of the Center for American Progress has argued that Nisbet's analysis of interest - group spending is badly skewed — for instance, the report counts BP's entire lobbying budget on the green side of the ledger, even though BP lobbies on all sorts of issues and barely lifted a finger when it came to cap - and - trade.