The budget for the courts for 2004 2005 is marginally lower than the previous budget.

Some international posts encumbered at lower grade levels than budgeted.

Posts encumbered by staff at lower grade levels than budgeted.

Member States might, however, compare the benefit accruing from a reduced assessment to the dividend accruing from a downsized budget as a result of a decline in peacekeeping budgets.

The budget target is to contain the price at 15 lower than a Mercedes Benz S class.

Lower projected requirements.

They're super efficient. We had a very low budget to work with.

(b) Reduction of the existing support budget

The budget reflects an increase of 6.5 per cent over the budget for 1998.

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

Instrument for standardized international reporting of military expenditures

In the presentation, the forthcoming budget is compared with the preceding budget.

Percentage of budget allocated to education

The proposed OTP budget for 2006 7 amounts to 72 million and reflects an overall net reduction in posts and non posts amounting to over 11 millions or 13.7 in comparison with the 2004 5 OTP budget.

Costs associated with evacuations and Minimum Operational Residential Security Standards (MORSS) are also expected to increase significantly over previously budgeted levels.

5. Moreover, expenditures for international staff salaries were lower than estimated due to the fact that some posts were filled by staff at lower grade levels than budgeted.

(x) Non eligibility of permanent members of the Security Council for a low per capita income allowance in calculating the scale of assessments for the regular budget

Monthly Budgeted vs. Actual

Budgeted vs. Actual This Year

Yearly Budgeted vs. Actual

Share of consolidated State

It is true that there are problems with the scales of assessments for both the regular and the peacekeeping budgets.

Yearly Budgeted vs Actual Graph

(on the scale of assessment and the programme budget)

Although the 1997 budget volume was only 3.4 per cent higher than in 1996, despite natural growth in the refugee population and inflation, some allocations had to be reduced below budgeted amounts owing to funding shortfalls.

An initial benchmarking study comparing the 2006 2007 information and communications technology maintenance budget of UNDP with the maintenance budgets of UNICEF and the World Food Programme for 2004 2005 revealed that UNDP is, comparatively, at the low end.

In view of constraints of the national budget in funding the budgetary area that should be financed from the national budget, for years the CM has been establishing the minimum monthly wage below the subsistence minimum (see the table below).

For 1996, the national health budget is estimated at 9.2 billion pesos while the local government budget for health is estimated at about 6 billion pesos.

(a) Lower than budgeted expenditure for official travel and training

That means that the budgeted strength of subregional offices is at least 20 per cent below the target, a significant shortfall.

A comparison between the current and proposed budget concepts is shown in table 7, using the budget for the biennium 1996 1997 as a model.

Percentage of the budget earmarked for education

Concerning the performance report on the budget of the Mission for 2003 2004 (A 59 653), the Group welcomed the savings realized, the low number of death and disability cases and the lower than budgeted vacancy rate.

The approved budget for the biennium 2004 represented a nominal increase of 5 per cent from the previous budget.

Thus, the total health budget would probably be closer to 4 per cent of the national budget of 400 billion pesos.

Currently, the regular budget of the United Nations accounts for less than 10 per cent of the total budget of UNDCP.

(on the programme budget and the scale of assessments)

This ratio also compares unfavourably with the financial plan forecast of 45 per cent.

B. Budget calculations Consultations with ACABQ appear to indicate that it recommends the following two major modifications of the methodology for budget calculations a change in the calculation of revised budgets and a change in the comparison between the forthcoming and the preceding budget.

31. The present cost estimates represent a 10.4 per cent reduction, in gross terms, in relation to the previous budget.

Emergency contributions decreased by 12 per cent compared to 2003 and 3 per cent compared to the financial plan.

It is estimated that the debt export ratio in net present value terms is high (187 per cent), suggesting that Haiti's debt is unsustainable.

The budget covered the minimum of the Agency s needs, and there was no automatic annual 5 per cent increase in budget needs as there had been in the past.

a July 2004 to June 2005.

Percentage of State budget