Firstly, we have the Gers figures ( Government Expenditure and Revenue for Scotland: not the Ibrox hopefuls).
The Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (Gers) figures for 2011-12 set out actual levels of tax and spending.
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In economic hardship, the Keynesians inevitably select their preferred remedial lever: augmented government expenditure to utilize idle resources.
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Be they Republicans or Democrats, politicians as a rule regularly talk up the need to reduce government expenditure.
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This is a magic that will work briefly, as Keynes intended, when it relies on useful government expenditure.
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And if the Scottish government has to spend more to service debts, that's a higher share of government expenditure.
That brings us to government expenditure, which is getting most of the press.
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But as recession deepens, interest payments on Greek debt are still taking up a huge slice of government expenditure.
That leaves only one path for real deficit reduction: substantial cuts in government expenditure, especially lower government retirement and health benefits.
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It has taken the Government Expenditure and Revenue for Scotland (Gers) data which we already had, and added its own analysis.
The government argues this is exactly the wrong time to take money out of the economy by reducing the levels of government expenditure.
The low level of government expenditure as a percentage of growth is not by chance, but a specific model the Chinese government has adopted.
The above-inflation pay increases that Cosatu has claimed over the past five years have swelled government expenditure and crowded out spending on worthier causes.
This graph shows the levels of government expenditure in local currency.
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Too much government expenditure has catalyzed the impact of crowding out.
If I had to operate the EU system, then, because I qualify 13 accounts, I might have to qualify the whole of British central government expenditure.
Of course a drastic change in price levels made room for manoeuvre, because we could resolve part of the problem by not completely indexing government expenditure.
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The right way is to cut government expenditure, downsize public sector employment and monetize the debt with a target of 7% inflation for five or so years.
Where is the cost and benefit analysis in government expenditure?
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But the source is too much valueless government expenditure.
Despite Miss Mulyani's boast about cutting subsidies, the most important of which lower the price consumers pay for fuel and electricity, they still account for about a quarter of all government expenditure.
First, major debt reductions are mainly driven by decisive and lasting (rather than timid and short-lived) fiscal consolidation efforts focused on reducing government expenditure, in particular, cuts in social benefits and public wages.
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Cuts to government expenditure have caused more than 10, 000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression across Europe and North America, according to Oxford University researchers who published The Body Economic.
They are considering making a report to the assembly's public accounts committee - which scrutinises Welsh government expenditure - about "the manner in which the minister's office has behaved in this process with public money".
This hollowing out of the country is buffered buy titanic government expenditure, so it is lulled into believing it is somehow great at business, when it is in fact taking a whooping at every turn.
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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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That is, Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland seeks to calculate (and sometimes guess, though in an educated way, of course) how much of the UK's revenue is raised in Scotland, and how much is spent in Scotland.
As with the GDP when it was revealed that a cutback in government expenditure and a fall in inventories sneaked 2.6% from Q4 GDP, it speaks volumes for the US private sector that growth was just down one tenth of a percent.
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