Sentence examples for budget statistics from inspiring English sources

Spain's finance minister, Elena Salgado, was trying to paint Greece as a unique case because of its admission that it has faked its budget statistics in past years.

Perhaps this waste factor is why it's harder to find exact budget statistics in the last seven or eight years - especially for the often-submerged P&A (prints and advertising) fees piled on top of basic production.

At last week's Open Government Partnership in Brazil, politicians from around the world highlighted how much financial information they now make available, from the salaries of public officials to their budget statistics.

The parties share blame for the current fiscal situation, but federal budget statistics show that Republican policies over the last decade, and the cost of the two wars, added far more to the deficit than initiatives approved by the Democratic Congress since 2006, giving voters reason to be skeptical of campaign promises.

The Chinese government doesn't release meaningful sports-budget statistics, but national expenditure is surely many times greater than the $130 million that the United States Olympic Committee spends each year.

The cost to the country of paying for student debt will rocket to billions of pounds a year over the next three decades, almost equalling the entire higher education budget, new statistics show.

Municipal-level data from the Directorate-general of Budget, Account, Statistics, Executive Yuan, were used to determine municipal-level socioeconomic status (SES) based on the distribution of annual average incomes of households: high (> 75th percentile), medium (75th to 25th percentile), or low (< 25th percentile) SES.

France and Germany have been working with the European Council president, Herman Van Rompuy, on proposals to increase collective and European Union oversight of national budgets and statistics, pass debt-limit laws and harmonize certain tax and social welfare policies.

The modifications, sought by Germany but supported by France, would allow the European Union greater oversight of national budgets and statistics, create debt limits for governments and try to create more convergence on policies like pension ages and tax levels.

Gross domestic product grew 5.4percentt from a year earlier, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said.

The economy grew 3.2percentt from a year earlier after expanding 4.2percentt in the fourth quarter, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said in a statement.