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The main reason for this discrepancy was that the UK had relatively few farms, so it got a small share of farm subsidies, which at the time made up 70% of budget expenditure.
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Long Term Leases : Purchasing land and constructing a factory and office building can take up a large part of the capital expenditure budget for a new project in China.
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Because of the timing of the expenditure, most of the money will increase the budget deficit for the current fiscal year.
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So the test of the government's commitment to medium-term planning of public expenditure will come in the budget in March.
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The State of California, for example, has worked hard to reform its state budget with major expenditure cuts, smaller debt offerings and a voter-approved tax increase.
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The overall effect is to push up the real growth of total public expenditure in 2000-01 from the 5% expected in the budget to almost 7%.
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Balanced-budget rules not linked to expenditure limits, such as America's Gramm-Rudman-Hollings act of 1985 and the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact, have been less successful.
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The government insists that it has not lost control of public expenditure: except for wages, it says, this year's spending is within budget.
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Mr Miliband said the government was wrong to focus on total expenditure in Europe rather than where the money was spent since the constituent parts of the EU budget - particularly the level of spending on agriculture - were in "desperate need" of reform.
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