They noted while central government spending was now "significantly below budget limits", local authorities and hospitals were still over-spending.
Catalonia argues that it sends far more in taxes to Madrid than it gets back in central government spending, and that Catalan taxes help support poorer Spanish regions.
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Catalonia has its own flag and language, produces 19% of the nation's wealth and argues that it sends far more in taxes to Madrid than it gets back in central government spending.
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The government counters that it has no money (central-government spending is the lowest as a share of GDP in Latin America) and that it is politically hamstrung, now that Mr Colom's party holds barely a fifth of the seats in the legislature.
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In the first 10 months of the financial year, central government current spending fell by 1.2%, year on year.
The central government is spending more on education: 54 billion yuan last year, an increase of more than 39%.
But they benefit from central-government defence spending, and they are net recipients from the social-security system.
The central government has substantially increased its spending on health care, but from a very low base.
This year's budget for health spending by the central government (including reform-related expenditures) is only 118 billion.
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Lastly, is it really so far off to regard the administrators of trillions in government spending programs as central planners?
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But it's not JUST about cutting bureaucracy because those central government departments are responsible for current spending on front-line services too.
His remedy is to take spending power from central government and put it firmly in the hands of patients and parents, who will be free to buy whatever health care and schooling they want from a variety of eagerly competing providers.
It would seem -- if Gorbachev's economic agenda, purportedly leading to a less militarized, more inward-looking Soviet Union, is real -- that the central government would have far more modest spending requirements and less trepidation about a devolution of this kind.
His theory asserts that private sector decisions sometimes lead to unexpected downturns in the economic cycle and, therefore, the public sector, including monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal spending by the government are needed to stabilize output.
In 2009 the DPJ ran on a quasi-populist and anti-establishment platform, promising on domestic policy to change the central government bureaucracy dominated, wasteful public works project spending driven, and big business and agricultural lobby favoring model of governance that basically described LDP government that had already backtracked on reforms made during the tenure of Koizumi Junichiro (2001-2006).
His plan, a combination of big government spending as well as an aggressive central bank asset buying programme, has been dubbed Abenomics.
In order to control the total government deficit the central government obviously needs to be able to control the spending of the provinces.
Breaking down the investment by sector, spending on projects backed by the central government rose by 40.3% in the first two months, while investment in transport, including railways, rocketed by 210.1%.
As part of a three-pillar strategy announced in January, Japan has ramped up government spending and the country's central bank is injecting money into the economy on a massive scale.
While progress was being made, it said, there had not been enough focus on the sustainability of savings and more emphasis was needed on long-term changes to how government works rather than on "imposing central spending controls".
Nick Bourne (Leader of the Welsh Conservatives) asked about the impact of his policies on local government expenditure and accused central government of presiding over a fall in local authority spending, but an increase in council tax.
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Economists have long been urging Beijing to compel state companies to hand over more of their profits to the central government as a way to help pay for increased spending on pensions, health care, low-income housing and education.
But it is to the central government that Spaniards will look for unemployment benefits and for spending to alleviate recession.
India's central bank is a longtime critic of the government's heavy spending, which the bank says dilutes its inflation-fighting efforts by keeping consumer demand artificially high.
Though it is encouraging that the central government is taking up a bigger share of health-care spending, this is still low: less than one-tenth of total government spending on the health sector last year.
The central government clearly engineered a multi-year upturn with its last centrally directed spending program, which was announced in November 2008.
Of the planned 850 billion yuan in spending, officials say only 40% will come from the central government.
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This resilience stems from continued foreign investment, an increase in government spending on public works and easier money: since December the central bank has cut interest rates by six percentage points, to 4%, a steeper drop than anywhere in the region outside Chile.
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, argues that fiscal thrift will increase private spending by reducing uncertainty about government tax policy and debt.
Analysts said that given the strong domestic demand and increased government spending, a rise in consumer prices remained a concern and may prompt the central bank to keep rates on hold in the short term.
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