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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Productive and decent employment is the most powerful lever to ensure the stability of social security during demographic change and to enhance social security coverage.

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.

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.

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.

The people's life has been gradually improved, security and socio political stability firmly maintained.

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).

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

But inequality and a sense of deprivation do contribute to resentment and social instability, threatening security.

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

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.

Social integration, access to education and training, as well as job security, are what enable young people to find their place in society.

What most European countries get for their social expenditure is a lot of state provision of services, and not much reduction in social inequality.

All of the spending cuts come from the discretionary part of the federal budget, which excludes Social Security, Medicare, the Medicaid program for the poor, and interest on the national debt.

On the contrary, spending cuts will hurt their most vulnerable citizens, widen the gap between rich and poor, and contribute to social and political instability.

Likewise, while reducing employment is one way to boost productivity, it implies high macroeconomic costs in terms of lost revenues and higher social spending.

It has been widely acknowledged that narcotics are a threat to national security, social stability and health, and could impact on governmental effectiveness.

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.

In NSC 68, a secret 1950 document, the National Security Council proposed to reinforce pro Western alliance systems and quadruple spending on defense.

Slowing the growth of government spending for Medicare and Social Security is necessary to prevent a long term explosion of the national debt or dramatic increases in personal tax rates.

To be sure, there are also differences among the Nordic states, with social welfare spending the highest in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden, and a bit lower in Finland and Iceland.

With his populist style, demagogic language, and authoritarian behavior, he replaced the country s former elite, demolished traditional power structures, and sharply increased spending on anti poverty programs and social inclusion.

Earmarking of taxes caused current expenditures (especially on social security benefits) to increase along with revenues, reducing the scope for a higher public sector contribution to domestic savings.

Health expenditures represented about 6.1 of total government spending.

Should the Security Council decide to extend the mandate of UNFICYP for a further period of six months, the cost of maintaining the Force would be limited to the amount approved by the General Assembly.

Turkey s experience shows that true security in the region requires internal stability and social peace.

The representative of Guyana said that her country, despite its socio economic status, had consistently pursued policies for children's access to education, health care and social protection and increased expenditures on education and health.

Equality and social cohesion form the backbone of liberty, justice, and security for European cities.

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.

Tonga's performance on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index reflects a high level of expenditure in health and education, stagnant population growth and sustained high levels of investment in the social sector.

Revolutions tend to confront new governments with steeply rising social demands (for wage increases and higher welfare spending, for example) at a time of capital flight, financial turmoil, and deep disruptions of production.