The government has been unable to provide foreign exchange for economic transactions, while it has resorted to printing money to finance its expenditure.

However, public opposition to increases in defence spending — during a period when economic constraints require reduced spending for social welfare — has created differences among the political parties regarding a broadly acceptable level of new defence expenditure.

In 2004, Indian elections covered an electorate larger than 670 million people — over twice that of the next largest, the European Parliament elections — and declared expenditure has trebled since 1989 to almost $ 300 million, using more than 1 million electronic voting machines.

IPEC currently has operations in 88 countries, with an annual expenditure on technical cooperation projects that reached over US $ 74 million, € 50 million in 2006.

In addition, in the last three years the government has increasing allocated additional funds to land transport, to the extent that today the total expenditure by the New Zealand Transport Agency on land transport projects exceeds road tax revenue collected.

* The largest expenditure for Nevis, approximately 29 percent of the Nevis Island Administration's recurrent budget, is education and health services, but the Nevis Island Legislature has no power to legislate over these two areas.

Since 2001, the cumulative expenditure by the U. S. government on Operation Enduring Freedom has exceeded $ 150 billion.

They report expenditure has been tightly controlled and revenue has held up well despite the difficult economic environment.

It is unable to meet bi-weekly payrolls and has become extraordinarily dependent on funds from foreign aid accounts, which provided an estimated 50 % of government expenditure in 2001.

Customers of Mid-Columbia Libraries have access to nearly 400, 000 books, movies, magazines, and downloadable eBooks and audiobooks ; the library system spends nearly $ 1 million annually on new materials and has the highest expenditure per capita for materials of any public library in Southeastern Washington .< ref >

Gold Coast City is the major film production centre in Queensland and has accounted for 75 % of all film production Queensland since the 1990s, with an expenditure of around $ 150 million per year.

The Chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury which sets departmental expenditure limits.

The EU Lisbon Strategy has set as a goal that their average expenditure on R & D should be 3 % of GDP.

CAP reform has steadily lowered its share of the EU budget but it still accounts for nearly half of the EU expenditure.

The inclusion of ten additional countries on 1 May 2004 has obliged the EU to take measure to limit CAP expenditure.

The makeover of Park City has stimulated an entirely different culture of expenditure, adventure, and wealth, and their promotional material indulges it.

He has to estimate of revenue and expenditure before the Legislative Council each year, and to deliver an annual budget to the Legislative Council, outlining the government's budgetary proposals and moving the appropriation bills.

" This picture is set against a backdrop of 13 years of continuously increasing expenditure, which has outstripped inflation ," he said.

Important research generated by the theory has been concerned with the consequences of exposure to information inconsistent with a prior belief, what happens after individuals act in ways that are inconsistent with their prior attitudes, what happens after individuals make decisions, and the effects of effort expenditure.

Pitney narrowed the period for which the newly defined proprietary right would apply: this doctrine " postpones participation by complainant's competitor in the processes of distribution and reproduction of news that it has not gathered, and only to the extent necessary to prevent that competitor from reaping the fruits of complainant's efforts and expenditure.

This vast expenditure has resulted in a number of high-quality advertisements with high production values, the latest in special effects technology, the most popular personalities, and the best music.

For example, a family which has $ 20, 000 available may choose to spend it on many different items, which can all be seen as competing with each other for the family's expenditure.

Under Mary, he had been spared, and often visited Elizabeth, ostensibly to review her accounts and expenditure.

Psychedelic festivals have been described as " temporary communities reproduced via personal and collective acts of transgression ... through the routine expenditure of excess energy, and through self-sacrifice in acts of abandonment involving ecstatic dancing often fuelled by chemical cocktails.

AFOs have been found to improve several measures of ambulation, including reducing energy expenditure and increasing speed and stride length.

However, since the outbreak of the war in 1793 the expenditure had been running at between 40 and 55 millions.

It's been estimated that each 500 kcal / week increment in physical activity related energy expenditure reduces the lifetime risk of type 2 diabetes by 6 %.

Other ways of measuring innovation have traditionally been expenditure, for example, investment in R & D ( Research and Development ) as percentage of GNP ( Gross National Product ).

One-third of the Fourth Plan's capital expenditure was spent on Ukraine, which was important agriculturally and industrially, and which had been one of the areas most devastated by war.

As 86 percent of the First World War maritime air effort had been expended on ASW it argued it was reasonable for a reduction in maritime expenditure in light of the technology now available.

The child must then be taught the ability, resulting in expenditure of conscious effort, and not producing results as great as could be produced if the sensitive period had been taken advantage of.

Winterton said Barwick had invented a convention that " a prime minister who cannot obtain supply ... must either advise a general election or resign ", pointing out that, although section 83 of the constitution forbids the expenditure of unappropriated funds, appropriated funds had not been exhausted.

Recognition of the railway ’ s importance to tourism and heritage has been increasingly marked by financial assistance given to the company towards capital expenditure.

He wrote very critically of the council's expenditure on the construction of Barnsley Town Hall and claimed that the money should have been spent on improving the housing and living conditions of the local miners.

Leptin has traditionally been regarded as a link between fat mass, food intake, and energy expenditure.

The ability of larger macropods to survive on poor-quality, low-energy feed, and to travel long distances at high speed without great energy expenditure ( to reach fresh food supplies or waterholes, and to escape predators ) has been crucial to their evolutionary success on a continent that, because of soil fertility and low, unpredictable average rainfall, offers only very limited primary plant productivity.

Snowden claimed that he was returning to long-held economic views but that these had been " temporarily inadvisable " during the crisis of 1931 when " national necessity " demanded cutting public expenditure.

The German Reich and the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic mutually agree to waive their claims for compensation for expenditure incurred on account of the war, and also for war damages, that is to say, any damages which may have been suffered by them and by their nationals in war zones on account of military measures, including all requisitions in enemy country.

The development of guided missiles was thought to render cannons unnecessary and a full generation of fighters was built without them, however the U. S. Air Force discovered during the Vietnam War that there was still a need for them, particularly for firing warning shots, and for targets that did not warrant the expenditure of a ( much costlier ) missile and so all fighters since have been so equipped.

However significant on-going expenditure had been committed already to manufacture packet switch hardware and by using the very expensive Tandem computers in existing VANS.

Haldane ’ s first estimates reduced the Army by 16, 600 men and reduced expenditure by £ 2. 6m to £ 28 million, as the Liberals had been elected on a platform of retrenchment.

Since the mid-1990s, there has also been extensive and growing co-operation between MDA and the ICRC including, among other things, a USD $ 2. 2 million expenditure on strengthening ties between the two organisations, the signing in 2000 of a two year co-operation statement, the permanent placement of an ICRC co-operation officer in MDA headquarters, and extensive support of the MDA's blood bank activities.

Many Engel Curves feature saturation properties in that their slope tends to diminish at high income levels, which suggests that there exists an absolute limit on how much expenditure on a good will rise as household income increases This saturation property has been linked to slowdowns in the growth of demand for some sectors in the economy, causing major changes in an economy's sectoral composition to take place.