In a statement, the Sri Lankan foreign ministry said that President Rajapakse and the government deplored the execution "despite all efforts at the highest level of the government and the outcry of the people locally and internationally".

BBC: Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek beheaded in Saudi Arabia

In this way we can build on the success at the Federal level and move toward transformation that links all levels of government.

WHITEHOUSE: Statement of The Honorable Sally Katzen

These increases at the national level contributed to an overall increase in all government spending (federal, state and local) of 3.7 percent.

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All the stimulus achieved was to save jobs in the public sector at the state and local government level, Zuckerman insisted.

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Participants at the High Level Group meeting on Education for All (EFA), organized by UNESCO and the Government of Norway, today urgently called on national governments to allocate at least four to six per cent of GNP and 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditure to education.

UNESCO: Education