And yet, when hard times hit, spending on health is often among the first things to be cut.

Table 3. Expenditures of the Supplementary Fund by object of expenditure as at 30 June 2005

Table 2 shows the requirements by objects of expenditure in the 2006 2007 biennium, compared with those of the current biennium.

The public sector wage bill continues to be the largest expenditure item, consuming around 68 per cent of total 2004 expenditure.

A substantial part of the increased deficit will be due to a wide range of new government spending.

By 2019, total military spending is projected to be 8.2 trillion, exceeding by 2 trillion the budgeted outlays for all non mandatory budget spending.

And some of the government spending in the stimulus package will replace other outlays that would have occurred anyway.

He hoped that the fiscal austerity measures imposed on the Tribunals, as well as any future measures that might be taken, would not affect their work. His delegation reiterated its concern about the continuing increase in expenditure and the issue of re costing.

The underexpenditure in respect of consultants, official travel, facilities and infrastructure and other supplies, services and equipment are offset by additional requirements in respect of international staff costs and general temporary assistance.

Agenda Items

The Committee has dealt with three key items on its agenda, as detailed below.

Proposals of agenda items

E. Balance sheet items

Other items of interest

Items for information poverty statistics

Items for information service statistics

As in any such list of proposals, there are items which seem more important to some than to others, and items about which some have reservations, while others consider them essential.

Items for information statistical capacity building

Since 2001, billions of dollars were shifted from disaster relief to homeland security and the war in Iraq. Key disaster mitigation programs were slashed and federal funding for post disaster relief was cut in half.

Items for information informal sector statistics

Items for discussion and decision development indicators

Items for information international merchandise trade statistics

Items which the Committee has decided to consider together.

At present, robots are mere items of property.

Items for discussion and decision social statistics

Items for discussion and decision distributive trade statistics

Items for discussion and decision environmental accounting

Items which the Committee has decided to consider together.

Agenda items 85 to 105 (continued)

Spending. Obama has dramatically increased spending.

His delegation had long stressed the need to reduce spending on such items as consultants , contractual services and travel of staff , but the issue had not yet been effectively addressed.

Items for discussion and decision international economic and social classifications

Items for discussion and decision programme review industrial statistics

Agenda items 45, 53 and 55

Items for discussion and decision International Comparison Programme

Agenda of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly

The Convention did not obligate any country to transport any particular item or to refrain from prohibiting the transport of items or materials on its flagship.

In terms of another suggestion, both draft articles 17 and 18 could be drafted in the same way, either as without prejudice clauses or as exclusion clauses.

Health expenditures represented about 6.1 of total government spending.

The outcome of that approach was new agenda items.

African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters

The titles of agenda items have been abbreviated, where appropriate.

While grants are expenditure items, allocations are advances.

Items for discussion and decision principles governing international statistical activities

He welcomed the Committee's thoughts regarding the allocation of agenda items.