Spending on training and education amounted to 15 per cent of the State budget in 2000 and 17.4 per cent in 2004, while spending on making primary and secondary education universal totalled 52.6 per cent of all education spending.

A targeted support program could increase substantially the efficiency of spending, freeing up resources for education, health, and poverty eradication.

In Estonia, the Primary and Secondary Education Act allowed arbitrary decisions to be taken regarding the maintenance of schools that taught through Russian.

For example, spending on education increased by 47 per cent between 2000 and 2004.

Cutting expenditures on the Iraq war and increasing expenditures on education can simultaneously increase output in the short and long run and reduce the deficit.

Various reforms were proposed to increase spending on the school system and improve the standard of education.

The Government has resolved to increase public spending in education to at least six per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

Expenditure on education accounts for only approximately 10 of GDP, and most schools are subsidized by the state.

And teacher absenteeism, a major aspect of corruption in education, can lead to direct losses of up to a quarter of a country s public spending on primary education.

The Committee further urges the State party to increase public expenditure on education in general, and to take deliberate and targeted measures towards the progressive realization of the right to education for the disadvantaged and marginalized groups throughout the country.

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.

In 2004, state spending for education amounted to 3.6 of the GDP, or 13 of the consolidated state budget.

Success should be measured according to impact on, say, the quality of education and skills acquisition, rather than according to the mandated level of public spending.

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.

For example, the current budget sequester (that is, across the board spending cuts) is already hurting programs like Head Start, which supports pre school education.

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

It makes it easier to eliminate budget deficits, and it makes it possible to increase education spending and to fund training schemes for the long term unemployed.

Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz are calling for an even larger fiscal stimulus to target government spending on education and infrastructure investment.

Spending, especially on investments in education, technology, and infrastructure, can actually lead to lower long term deficits.

The government has pledged in its National Common Minimum Program to raise public expenditure on education to 6 of GDP.

Health expenditures represented about 6.1 of total government spending.

But government spending on goods and services, like education, highways, police, and sanitation, has distributional consequences, too, and can be allocated to actual beneficiaries in much the same way as government transfers.

Government stipends for tuition and for new and enlarged universities can play a big role, as can investment in computers and information technology in schools and communities.

Furthermore, the number of students has increased, leading to higher public expenditures in the area of education, from 7.6 per cent in 1983 to 15 per cent in 2002.

While China has kept its economy going by making investments in education, technology, and infrastructure, Europe and America have been cutting back.

Economists agree that, at full employment, higher government spending crowds out private spending.

(c) the return obtainable on the promotion expenditure.

In the 1980 s, adjustment programs required countries to cut back on their expenditures, including outlays on education, health, water, agriculture, and other sectors that make a difference to poor households.

The problem is that more than half of such spending is on education, science and technology, and infrastructure the areas that Obama had just argued should be strengthened.

But more spending on these items will require less spending on other things or higher taxes.

They want to slash the budget not by ending the useless war in Afghanistan, and by eliminating unnecessary weapons systems, but by cutting education, health, and other benefits for the poor and working class.

They needed to improve access to education, health care and social protection, notably by giving higher priority to the financing of key social services, resisting strong pressure to decrease government spending in favour of the private sector.

Spending. Obama has dramatically increased spending.

Likewise, during expansions, higher government spending is more likely to crowd out private spending.

Indeed, the cost of a single month of western military spending in Iraq or Afghanistan would be enough to triple total aid for education in the Middle East.

The share of their expenditure on these two items is 20 and 80 , respectively.

Depending on the context, the opposite of traditional education may be progressive education, modern education (the education approaches based on developmental psychology), or alternative education.

The need then will be for more spending on education and training the only thing that in the long run will make American workers more productive and reduce income inequality.

But the resulting economic slack gives us the historic opportunity and need to compensate for low consumer spending with increased investment spending on sustainable technologies.

Confidence isn t built up on the basis of spending or lending alone.

The amount of the advance paid was determined by previous expenditure patterns.

(c) Adjustment of the rate of expenditures on already approved programmes.

In recent years, the central government has increased its spending on rural compulsory education and poverty relief, and local governments have changed regulations to increase the minimum wage by 20 30 in all 30 provinces.

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The military plus security budget soared by more than 2 of GNP, while tax revenues fell by much more. At the same time, Bush supported expenditure increases for popular items like education and prescription drug benefits, but paid for these services by borrowing the money rather than ensuring sufficient tax revenues.