Brazil allocates a reasonable share of its revenues to social spending, but more than half the disbursements go toward public pensions, which are spread widely among income groups, with very little reaching the poorest of the poor.
Although the aid is meant for the benefit of individual students, the disbursements actually go directly to their colleges.
Annual disbursements have gone up from 4.2bn reais to 23.95bn reais, but still cost less than 0.5% of GDP.
One idea is to bring forward loan disbursements to keep Greece going, with the promise to look at any shortfall later on.
He ended up stealing a couple thousand dollars' worth of loan disbursements - a fortune for our organization at the time - before going into hiding among the Masai nomads.
But after years of wondering what it was like on the other side of the business class curtain, no way was I going to miss one screening, meal, light snack or disbursement of a moist, warm towelette.
BRUSSELS — Greece's euro partners agreed Thursday to hand over the next disbursement of the country's bailout loans that will prevent it from going bankrupt and potentially trigger more turmoil in financial markets.
The report, released late last week, found "inadequate controls" over the disbursement of funds, hazard payments being made to hospitals with no proof the money was actually going to the health workers on the frontline and in some cases a "complete disregard for the law" in procurement.
"The government is not going to continue servicing public debt with its own funds if lenders do not immediately proceed with the disbursement of funds which have been put on hold since 2014," said government aides.
People going to see a solicitor may be told that it is not possible to put a price on what the service may cost but the lawyer will charge, say, £201 per hour plus VAT, with fees and disbursements (there's that legal language again) being extra.
