Two effects of this popular involvement are evident: Swiss taxes are rather low by European standards, because voters are able to review and approve a broad range of expenditures, and political decision making tends to be slow, because contending individual claims and opinions must be allowed to be expressed at every step.
The California EMF project [ 73], on the other hand, suggested that various measures within a large range of expenditures could be justified.
To estimate the households' consumption expenditure, we asked our respondents a range of questions on aggregate expenditure on both food and non-food items including those on food, clothing, housing, education, and medical care.
We shall then attempt to determine their actual or potential impact on a range of indicators including drug prices expenditure and affordability, drug availability and equity of access.
24 The survey covers consumption expenditure information on a range of commodities including tobacco products, using a 30-day reference period for consumables such as food, fuel, tobacco and intoxicants.
He also ordered the CIA to increase by 50% its number of spies and personnel trained in Arabic and WMD research.Congress passed a $388 billion multi-agency spending bill aimed at easing the budget deficit by cutting expenditure across a range of programmes.
Rather than treating upgrades as one-off expenditures, Diversey combines a range of projects into a portfolio of energy efficiency investments that together deliver an attractive return.
The improvements that have been achieved are best understood as the outcomes from a range of disparate activities and actions (covering capital expenditures, improved monitoring and control systems, training, and so forth) directed at reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Variation across the above categories was examined, using 2005 data, by a range of indicators of vulnerability including: household size, expenditure, reported child hunger and main source of income.
b) A range of policy tools can be used to alter expenditure levels.
