The UN could achieve $20-$20-$40social benefits per dollar spent by concentrating on these.
Spending on Social Security is rising primarily because of demographics, not because of growing benefits per eligible person.
Overall spending on benefits per head is 2 per cent higher in Scotland than the UK as a whole, said the IFS.
City economic development officials also say that aid programs for small companies are less restrictive than those for large companies and can provide up to three times the benefits per employee when tax breaks and other noncash incentives are counted.
When Transportation Department officials unveiled their 2009 budget this week, they boasted of more than two dozen new projects, and they said they had carefully weighed factors like "benefits per passenger mile".
While Iain Duncan Smith does not appear to object to the proposed changes in disabled benefits per se, he very much minded their inclusion in a budget "that benefits higher earning taxpayers".
A chart on Wednesday with the Economic Scene column, about the many tax breaks in the United States tax code, included erroneous calculations of average federal benefits per family because the data was not adjusted for family size.
But analyses prepared by 82 top economists and 44 sector experts for the Copenhagen Consensus Center showed us that some of the targets are barely worthwhile, producing little more than $1 in social benefits per dollar spent, while others produce much higher social returns.
Over all, the three economists found that the tax and benefits system is broadly progressive, since minimum wage workers receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes, while "households with million-dollar salaries pay 54 cents in taxes net of benefits per dollar earned".
On March 11, the final day of mediated negotiations, the sides began talks $640 million apart in the first year, with the union wanting $151 million in salary and benefits per team as the pegged number, and the league offering $131 million.
Net benefits per apprenticeship are defined in chapter 2 ("The cost-benefit model").
