The share of expenditures for allowances and medical care decreased.

At present, compensation subsidies cover an average of 17 per cent of the expenditure of low income groups.

(e) Calls on UNHCR to keep its administrative expenditure under continual review with a view to reducing it as a proportion of total expenditure

Expenditure levels for IIS have been lower than expected for this biennium.

Pensions are extremely low and in any case insufficient to meet basic survival expenses.

Expenditures for this programme in the current biennium have been substantially lower than predicted.

However, because of the scarcity of budgetary resources, other expenses should be kept to a minimum because there were simply no funds available to pay for them.

35. A portion of underexpenditure for personnel is attributable to problems in administration and record keeping as such it is not really underexpenditure, since eventually accounting records will have to be reconciled.

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

Expenditure for common services (included under the line item for other expenditures ) has been lower than originally planned, based on actual experience in Bonn and delay in receipt of invoices.

This amount is meant to cover an individual apos s minimum outlays, food, clothing, minimum rent, etc.

With regard to the structure of the expenditure of households classified as poor in terms of patrimony development, it may be said that a little more than 80 per cent of the resources devoted to food and drink for consumption within and outside the household is derived from cash sources and a little under a fifth from non cash sources.

The unrealistic budget, the constant endeavours to increase spending, the current artificial underestimation of the value of labour, the lack of necessary motivation to work and the low level of social spending were probably the main obstacles to boosting the economy.

The underexpenditure is attributable to the continuation of measures to minimize travel expenditures, including combined trips by Headquarters staff to more than one duty station at a time.

Expenditures were lower than the cost estimates since only mandatory maintenance services were undertaken.

(a) The expression 35 percentile household expenditure means the level of expenditure of households of a particular size, excluding expenditure for rent, as obtained in the 5 yearly Household Expenditure Survey conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, so that 35 of the households of that size have household expenditure below that level and 65 of the households have household expenditure above that level.

Because of economic recession, it was often not possible to reduce budget deficits, either by reducing government expenditures or by increasing taxes.

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Lower actual expenditures.

The unspent balance of 58,300 was realized from actual requirements being lower than budgeted.

Even if contributions were to match the Agency's approved budget, they would still cover levels of expenditure that are minimal in relation to refugee needs.

So the key to raising revenue is to reduce tax expenditures, use some of the resulting revenue to reduce tax rates, and devote the rest to reducing future deficits. Opponents of tax increases should see that, because such revenue raising is really cutting government spending, it does not imply the adverse incentive effects of raising marginal tax rates.

Expenditures for the CAR programme in this biennium have been much lower than previously anticipated.

The so called low consumption level was taken into account, that is the basic expenditures of the first 20 per cent of the total number of workers apos households.

For example, the Advisory Committee understands that in the case of UNMIBH, problems with the recording of expenditures in the corresponding accounts may explain the large underexpenditure in the civilian personnel component.

Total support budget expenditure (management and administration and programme support) was 256 million, an increase of 14 million (6 per cent) compared to 2003 and 3 million (1 per cent) less than the financial plan.

Based on recent actual expenditure, the provision reflects a decrease in the average monthly requirement per vehicle from 100 and 220 in the prior period for United Nations owned and contingent owned vehicles, respectively.

The range of constraints impeded the provision of services and gave rise to delays, inefficiencies and additional costs.

Against this the overall expenditure was 2.53 billion, which was lower than that during the previous biennium by 100 million.

Over the past decade, UNHCR has devoted a far greater proportion of its budget to repatriation operations and returnee assistance, with expenditure accounting for at least 14 per cent of total spending since 1991, in contrast to an annual average of below 2 per cent before 1985.

The range of constraints impeded the provision of services and gave rise to delays, inefficiencies and additional costs.

Japan could not support the idea of convening an expert group to review the draft minimum rules.

(b) Reduction of the existing support budget

The actual cost incurred was slightly lower than estimated.

Average budgeted health expenditure for 1998 stood at 15.3 per refugee per year, well below expenditures by other health care providers in the region.

And then, over time, we were able to bring down the cost significantly to about two percent of what it used to be when we started out.

In July and August 2004, meetings were held between the Claims Payment Section and the Information Systems Section to discuss the ways of reducing the risks involved.

XIII.5 The Advisory Committee was informed that expenditure under the first three items have decreased from the level of the first, second and third tranches.

Since the 1940s, house rents have been virtually frozen, which to a great extent has helped to contain the living expenditure of the lower income groups.

I drive the SubDivisional Officer's jeep

Expenditures amounted to 3,400 as a result of the lower deployment of contingent personnel and the purchase of minimal recreational items.

TOTAL EXPENDITURES INCURRED BY OBJECT OF EXPENDITURE

For example, in 1995 total administrative support expenditure (including regular budget expenditure) amounted to 107,295,100, or 9.2 per cent of the total 1995 expenditure, as compared to total projected administrative support expenditure of 111,556,700 for 1999, or 12.9 per cent of the total 1999 projected expenditure.

Dollar limit? That'll do for a starter.

Here there are no major differences between men and women, but the valuation of payments in kind point to very low remuneration.