Efforts were made to prioritize work on the budget and increase coordination with spending agencies.

But MPs also have the power to formulate the legislation, to make the laws and to determine the priorities for government, including the spending priorities and what the country does internationally.

The Deputy High Commissioner believed that the Office could maintain financial stability in 2005 thanks to the measures taken to cap, cut, prioritize and stagger disbursement of spending authority, but appealed for extraordinary end of year contributions.

They account for half of public spending.

The public good remains one of the City Bar's highest priorities.

(g) The need to reconsider public expenditure priorities

Or public spending all European leaders adamantly want to reduce government spending.

There is little waste to cut from domestic spending, and many areas where increases in public spending are needed.

The main beneficiaries of public spending are the poor and the middle class.

In Pakistan both the public and private spending on health is low.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that almost two thirds of the Ryan budget s spending cuts would come from such programs.

I therefore call on all players to shift expenditure priorities towards development in order to fight poverty, to fight hunger and to fight the causes of the growing violence and use of force in the world.

Many are especially resolved to fight for more and better public goods in view of the government s misplaced spending priorities, which include soccer stadiums and other pharaonic construction projects.

But real tax cuts also mean spending cuts and, as elections loom barely a year from now, it is too late.

Public sector spending amounts to 53 of the GDP.

We set priorities.

As a result, government expenditures and household incomes are up substantially since Saddam Hussein s last years in power.

The Government document entitled Securing Afghanistan's future , presented to donors at the 2004 Berlin Conference, set economic growth targets in alignment with the Millennium Development Goals and defined public sector spending priorities for the next seven years.

Other priorities of the Government included reducing poverty and increasing wages for the public sector.

(b) Priorities and decisions of the Secretary General (e.g., the report of the Secretary General on training programmes (A C.5 47 9))

We have established an independent public procurement authority and introduced regular public expenditure tracking systems.

Fiscal consolidation means less public spending. And less spending means less upward pressure on prices which is the last thing Europe needs in a deflationary environment.

Doing everything possible to avoid a repeat of the 1989 scenario may well be the Communist Party leadership s top priority in 2009.

(c) Terrorism and counter terrorism

(d) New priorities.

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B. Priorities for action

Moreover, it was for the Member States, not the Secretary General, to determine the priorities of the United Nations and its evolving needs.

At the same time, public spending acts as a brake on overall spending, and prevents the rapid cost escalation to which America s private insurance companies contribute.

Last year, America s entire military and counterterrorism expenditures topped 600 billion.

And, starting that year, construction spending did indeed fall below trend.

Welfare benefits account for more than half of Germany s federal spending this year.

This in turn had made it possible to increase recurrent public spending in public services.

Spending. Obama has dramatically increased spending.

Where public finances are limited, public expenditure on infrastructure investment is often inadequate.

Unlike in the US, where federal public spending grew as a consequence of the creation of new expenditure programs throughout the twentieth century, public spending was already high at the national level when Europe began to integrate.

These areas account for less than 8 of federal spending, and their share has been declining steadily.

This year, Azerbaijan s military budget alone exceeded total state spending in Armenia and Karabakh.

The proportion of public health expenditure going to ESP rose by over 50 per cent.

Priorities for the period 2006 2007

Priorities for the year ahead

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(a) The business priorities of the organization