Trends in social expenditure in Mexico

Stability of social spending is crucial, inasmuch as instability and fluctuations reduce the efficiency of social spending.

Equally, a reduction in interest rates frees up space in the budget for increases in social expenditure.

Even economic growth will not prevent a tradeoff between defense and welfare spending for Europeans.

In short, Latin American countries have used their additional export revenues to pay down debt and increase social spending.

When spending is high, it is usually social spending that is badly targeted, which means that only a small share of poor people really benefit.

Failures to promote social solidarity can have other costs, not the least of which are the social and private expenditures required to protect property and incarcerate criminals.

When growth is missing, government revenues fall, social spending rises, and many in Washington look to cut defense spending as the easy way out.

The Inter American Development Bank has sponsored events on social capital, ethics and volunteerism for development in Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.

Social security expenditures will face a shortfall of 6 trillion this year.

Immigrants formed the first volunteer fire fighting units (still a volunteer activity in Chile).

E. Bringing volunteerism into the mainstream

The first decision I adopted on my Government's first day in office was to cut back military expenditure in my country by 23 per cent in order to allocate it to food, health, education and social investments.

Recognizing also that volunteerism is an important component of any strategy aimed at, inter alia, such areas as poverty reduction, sustainable development, health, disaster prevention and management and social integration and, in particular, overcoming social exclusion and discrimination,

Recognizing also that volunteerism is an important component of any strategy aimed at, inter alia, such areas as poverty reduction, sustainable development, health, disaster prevention and management and social integration and, in particular, overcoming social exclusion and discrimination,

Moreover, if Europeans target social expenditure better, they might achieve a greater reduction in inequality with a lower level of social transfers.

In the meantime, Greek society will suffer from budgetary austerity, cuts in social expenditure, and an overall economic downturn.

Growth itself increases tax revenues and reduces the need for social expenditures, such as unemployment benefits.

Eventually, the books must be balanced, and this will probably happen at the expense of future social spending.

They will want to protect all social spending, regardless of the consequences for foreign policy.

China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.

So lower levels of social expenditure could involve only a relatively small increase in inequality and social conflict.

People often define volunteering as the privileged helping the needy, but volunteering can also be used to help oneself.

At home, he dedicated a considerable part of his public policy to favour the country's poorest classes through social investment funded by the money brought by high oil prices during his years of government.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has developed an internal volunteering policy and established a volunteering focal point within its headquarters.

56 38. Recommendations on support for volunteering

YUVA (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action)

The US currently has the smallest share of government spending in GDP, although it has gained substantially on Canada because of the spending explosion since 2000 President George W. Bush s military spending and Obama s social spending

The Scandinavian social compact rests on the understanding that citizens must pay high taxes in exchange for public services.

Between 2006 and 2009, the government increased social spending on social welfare and education from 2.6 to 5.2 of its GDP.

On the other hand, there have been significant increases in social spending over the past 10 years (particularly on education, health and housing).

National legislation on volunteering was identified during the International Year of Volunteers as an important determinant of a flourishing volunteer movement.

The legislative environment is becoming increasingly supportive of volunteering and the contribution that volunteering makes to individuals and societies is increasingly recognized.

Spending. Obama has dramatically increased spending.

Women's Union of Russia (1999 2002)

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action

Therefore, on a regional level, a large part of the additional resources were used to increase public spending, especially for social security, health, and education, in that order.

References in national Human Development Reports to volunteerism are an indicator of the extent to which volunteerism is entering the mainstream of development thinking.

Meanwhile, cuts in social and welfare spending are only making things worse, as employment and consumer demand fall further.

Their recipe is for the high tax, high social spending (and not so small deficit) policies of the large northern European economies, Germany and France.

Access to education for girls was showing improvements, and it had become apparent that there was a strong correlation between social spending on health and higher levels of life expectancy.

There's a common belief that working for free doesn't have any value.

Public spending had to rise before it could fall, in order to provide some slack while renegotiating parts of the social contract.

The Great Recession has exacerbated inequality, with cutbacks in basic social expenditures and with high unemployment putting downward pressure on wages.

During the period from 1995 to 2004, social spending rose from 3.2 per cent to approximately 5 per cent of GDP.