But corporate spending on politics can also hurt the interests of shareholders.

And politicians that benefit from corporate spending and access to corporate resources will have an interest in serving the insiders preferences and objectives.

In this case, fiscal consolidation is likely to affect their investment spending positively.

In 2003, researchers claimed an average of 5 of total corporate spending was sourced using reverse auctions.

But what they practice as do s by way of altruism is surely a matter of what they consider virtuous to spend their money on.

CAMBRIDGE The United States Supreme court recently struck down limits on the freedom of companies to spend money on political elections.

(In thousands of dollars)

Second, in 2001, weak capital spending in the corporate sector (accounting for 10 of GDP) underpinned the contraction.

To be sure, building a social safety net, developing financial markets, and strengthening corporate governance to encourage state enterprises to pay out more of what they earn would encourage Chinese households to consume.

The available funds must be spent appropriately.

A billion dollars spent on one set of approaches can t be spent elsewhere. So where is it best to spend more first?

In the United Kingdom, for example, public companies have been subject to such a requirement for more than a decade. Shareholders of British companies must approve, by majority vote on a shareholder resolution, any political spending that exceeds 5,000.

Sami didn't want to spend his money on horses.

Obama s long run budget calls for much higher spending, higher taxes, and an explosion of debt that will crowd out borrowing in capital markets by private companies, state and local governments, and developing countries.

The idea is that price action will trigger both the wealth effect and animal spirits, thus inducing consumers to spend more and companies to invest in future capacity.

The process continues until that year's allocated funds are expended.

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While grants are expenditure items, allocations are advances.

Instead of spending 1 billion a year, imagine spending 1.2 billion the first year, but, say, only 750 million in the fifth year.

How then should foreign assistance to Iraq be spent?

The premise is simple no dollar can be spent twice.

This money was expended throughout the United States.

Big companies. Big companies.

After spending all that money, we would not even be able to tell the difference.

Specifically, Keynes denied that saving is simply deferred spending.

This means that getting Chinese households to spend more is not a hopeless mission.

Integral to this freedom is the right to spend money to disseminate speech.

The amount of spending on rice alone by Africans equals the combined national budgets of Ghana and Senegal.

Equivalent advice today would be that governments the world over are doing all the wrong things in bailing out top heavy banks, subsidizing inefficient businesses, and putting obstacles in the way of rational workers spending more time with their families or taking lower paid jobs.

Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages.

The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.

And government spending is as good as anybody else s.

The regular budget accounted for 6.3 per cent of total UNCTAD expenditures on technical cooperation.

These bodies now have single line budgets and have the freedom to spend these according to the needs of their communities.

Cut public sector spending directly, while creating incentives to induce lower private sector expenditure.

Indeed, these debt service costs alone account for 22 of the Egyptian government s total expenditures.

A central bank can print money, but it cannot ensure that the money it prints is spent.

The Crimean War affected also Mäntsälä funds for building the church were spent on war efforts.

If they are living with their parents, they can spend their entire income on themselves.

The absolute poverty line is determined by the value of spending of each individual, irrespective of place and time of living.

Money that could have been used to save thousands of lives was spent to win votes.

The administering Power appeared to have no problems spending money to keep Montserrat dependent.

Some of the interregional projects entail assistance tailored to each country's needs, such as support for WTO acceding countries, investment guides, and investment policy reviews.

Table 4

A compliance module application will be implemented, with one time capital expenditure of 200,000.