With the Cold War's end, Americans became more interested in budget savings than in investing in soft power.

However it can be said that it is probably half the entire budget, if not more.

The Russian delegation noted that the budget was more concise and gave priority to strategic orientations.

Rolling it over at higher rates of 4 or 5 would add more than 100 billion to the budget deficit.

In the early years, the contribution from the United Nations regular budget covered more than 20 per cent of UNEP's expenditures.

To do so, the Government intended to increase the annual health share of the budget to more than 10 per cent and build up an electronic health information system.

And the Greek government faces an endless succession of budget cuts, with each step being more difficult than the last as the economy spirals down a black hole.

India strongly supported the Office on Drugs and Crime and, in particular, the Terrorism Prevention Branch, which would be able to play a more important role and work more effectively if it had greater support, particularly in terms of increased budgetary resources.

In paragraph 183 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's recommendation that it ensure that payments split between two or more budget holders were approved by all budget holders before payment took place.

(b) Other substantive activities (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

In one of the most telling cases, the regular budget of a major specialized agency dropped from over two thirds of its total programme resources in the mid 1990s to less than 30 per cent of the budget forecast for the 2006 2007 biennium.

In that context, it took note of the Secretariat's efforts to make the budget document clearer and more concise.

Back in 2002, all of China s major banks were awash in non performing loans (NPLs), which in some cases amounted to more than 10 of the total balance sheet.

Some influential people, including Schwarzenegger, say the state needs a new constitution that would restrict ballot initiatives and make budgets easier to pass.

Her delegation hoped that the Advisory Committee's recommendations would help to bring about a shift away from line by line scrutiny of the proposed programme budget towards a more strategic discussion.

Interest payments, which consume more than 10 of Germany s federal budget, will grow along with the mounting debt burden and even faster if interest rates rise.

(b) Other substantive activities (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

Cost structure of the unified budget, excluding contributions from the United Nations regular budget

Allocation of budgetary resources

A unique feature of Iran's economy is the large size of the religious foundations whose combined budgets make up more than 30 that of the central government.

Budget responsibilities have increased from approximately 1 million in the 1992 1993 biennium, when the post was last reclassified, to over 8 million currently.

(a) Servicing of intergovernmental and expert bodies (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

China s large state sector (which accounts for more than 30 of GDP) is usually careless about losses, owing to the soft budget constraints under which they operate.

Over the last two years more than 850 million roubles from the federal budget have been spent in implementing the measures provided under this programme and its subprogrammes in the Russian Federation.

Her delegation had long advocated a more balanced and predictable funding structure for the sections of the budget dealing with human rights and humanitarian affairs, and was concerned at the large share of operational activities in those fields financed through extrabudgetary funds.

Table 3 Staffing in the tribunals funded from assessed contributions

Additional regular budget requirements

Table 13.6 Resource requirements (full budget)

As more than 90 per cent of the secretariat's expenditures are based on the value of the euro, budget projections in euros will be accurate over the entire financial period and protected against exchange rate fluctuations.

This becomes all the more crucial with the increasing trend towards new and emerging funding mechanisms such as direct budget support and sector wide approaches.

At the most basic level, governments must take a hard look at conscription and territorial defense forces, which eat up far too much of Europe s military budgets.

(iii) Staff in the Professional and higher categories under the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources and

As the focal point for the budget, the Budget Officer will be responsible for data collection, the development of performance indicators, the calculation of budget proposals, the layout and presentation of the budget and performance reports and the subsequent issuance of budgetary advices.

Table 13.2 Summary of publications (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

Most persuasive to us was the fact that the Secretary General himself told us that he could live with this budget, albeit with great reluctance on the part of the Secretariat.

(a) Servicing of intergovernmental and expert bodies (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

Extrabudgetary funding

Malaysia

(c) Technical cooperation (regular budget)

30. Reaffirms that the vacancy rate is a tool for budgetary calculations and should not be used to achieve budgetary savings

As shown in annex II to the proposed budget, there are eight regular budget posts in this office as well.

Budget responsibilities have increased, from under 1 million in the 1992 1993 biennium when the post was last reclassified to over 12 million in the 2004 2005 biennium.

(c) Technical cooperation (regular budget extrabudgetary)

(i) Advisory services (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

The improvements made to budget presentation, and the indication of the objectives to be attained, had facilitated the review of the proposed programme budget.