Assessments rose by 50 per cent and expenditures rose by 39 per cent.

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They noted that, even with this inclusion, UNCTAD s budget would still show significant negative growth.

Overall expenditure of other resources also increased by 15 per cent ( 345 million).

The increase results from higher expenditure estimates in Vienna.

Obama s Republican opponents, who claim that fiscal stimulus cannot work, rely on arguments that are incoherent at best, and usually simply wrong, if not mendacious. Remember that back in 1993, when the Clinton administration s analyses led it to seek to spend less and reduce the deficit, the Republicans said that that would destroy the economy, too.

The additional recovery income offsets the growth in support budget expenditures, thus maximizing the funds available for programme assistance.

It is estimated that income and expenditure will increase somewhat.

expenditures increased by 1 million, from 5.9 million in 2003 to 6.6 million in 2004.

A. Recosting adjustments The increase in recosting of 546,000 covers increases for posts amounting to 596,000 and decreases for other objects of expenditure amounting to 50,000.

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This increase is mainly due to an increase in the number of posts by 10, most of them for fund raising, with an impact of 0.7 million on staff costs and an impact of 0.9 million on other operating expenses.

The net support budget expenditure of 281 million in 2004 was 11 per cent higher than the expenditure level of 2003 ( 252 million).

In terms of rRegular resources expenditures , there was an grew by 18 per cent, increase from 398 million in 2003 to 469 million in 2004.

In addition, external balance of payments assistance was suspended and debt service payments rose.

An indicative breakdown of the estimated additional costs by main categories of expenditure is provided, for information purposes, in the annex to the present addendum.

Government spending on health has been increased, and it will be raised to two to three per cent of GDP over the next year.

She supported the additional wording submitted by the representative of the Netherlands.

We know that pre crisis demand was boosted by massive amounts of borrowing. When borrowing becomes easier, it is not the well to do, whose spending is not constrained by their incomes, who increase their consumption rather, the increase comes from poorer and younger families whose needs and dreams far outpace their incomes.

Recurrent expenditure in 1997 rose by 16 per cent to EC 52.95 million from EC 45.65 million in 1996.

Excluding the latter amount from the 2003 expenditures, there was a total increase of approximately 0.9 million (5.4 per cent) in 2004, mainly attributable to Special Voluntary Fund, cost sharing and full funding.

Accordingly, Kenya has increased spending in the health sector from 8.6 per cent of Government expenditure in the financial year 2004 2005 to 9.9 per cent in 2005 2006.

It was pointed out that in the low income countries risk mitigation on the basis of bilateral or multilateral support was important to increase foreign investments.

In line with the increases in income and cost recovery from other resources, regular resources programme expenditures will increase by 21 per cent from 879 million to 1,065 million.

Restatement would have resulted in an increase of 5.0 million in total programme expenditures for 2003.

Not surprisingly, their trade deficits have been shrinking. But most countries that were over saving and under spending have not saved less and spent more their current account surpluses have been growing, aggravating the weakness of global demand and thus undermining growth.

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That calls for increased spending in the sector to address those challenges.

In conclusion, the performance by the other funds, programmes and specialized agencies was instrumental in achieving oOverall, there was a 4 per cent increase in other specialized agencies, funds and programmes expenditure delivery, of from 2.5 billion in 2003 to 2.6 billion in 2004.

In the case of Special Programmes, the increase in administrative expenditure, as compared to increases in operational expenditure, is more pronounced in 1995 administrative expenditures of Special Programmes amounted to 44,713,600, or 6.1 per cent of the total 1995 expenditure, as compared to projected administrative support expenditure of 51,250,300 for 1999, or 11.9 per cent of the total projected expenditure for 1999.

Other donor resources contributions, 2004

The current budget (2004 2005) increases in dollar terms again resulting in even larger procurement spending with a steady state in number of purchase orders to be raised.

By comparison with the year 2000, State budget expenditures for pre school educational programmes rose to 5.8 billion tenge from 2.9 billion (a 100 increase).

But to realize this economic and social potential, African leaders must combat corruption. They must make the management of their utilities more transparent, strengthen regulations, and increase public spending on energy infrastructure.

Each year, more staff worked in hazardous duty stations, without their families and other means of support.

At the same time, I should note that we have increased our support for local government development efforts to 7 per cent of the national budget.

Expenditures in their favour amounted to 9.2 million, reflecting an increase of 6.2 per cent over the previous year and representing one third of total expenditures in 2004.

Actual expenditures were higher than anticipated, resulting in additional requirements of 3,900.

There was an overall decline in expenditures funded by regular budgets, from 518 million in 2003 to 497 million in 2004 (a 4.1 per cent decrease). Conversely, there was an increase of 5 per cent in expenditures funded by extra budgetary sources from 2 billion in 2003 to 2.1 billion in 2004.

Cutting welfare spending where the big money is would be painful. Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.

Contributions to the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Fund for technical assistance projects in the field of terrorism prevention as at 30 June 2005 are shown in the table below.

Such support has been steadily increasing, reflecting growing confidence in effective programme delivery.

Provisions for non post objects of expenditure also reflect slight increases mainly to strengthen the training capacity under this subprogramme.

But, whatever the cause or effect, spending always goes up whenever groups decide to spend more and government decisions to spend more are as good as anybody else s. They are as good as the decisions of mortgage companies and new homebuyers to spend more on new houses during the housing bubble of the mid 2000 s, or of the princes of Silicon Valley to spend more building new companies during the dot com bubble of the late 1990 s.

The suffering it undergoes daily is escalating.