Sentence examples for expenditure benchmarks from inspiring English sources

The secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development is also asked to establish "expenditure benchmarks at the one- and two-year milestones".

While Indian economists debate whether to use calorie consumption or healthcare expenditures as benchmarks — Brazil's system was based on per capita income — the government has decided to rely on a census identifying socioeconomic status and caste.

While publishing more contracts and detailed expenditure is progressive, benchmarking reports can only be published under direction from the mayor.

The MP for Newcastle Central, Jim Cousins, took a more statesmanlike line, believing that Scottish expenditure was a benchmark, rather than a target.

It was not acceptable to use last year's expenditure as a benchmark for this year's budgeted costs, and then only to have to justify the increase in that expenditure.

With a carbon price of 427 ¥/t and benchmarking, the expenditure of COAL_H in the emission market accounts for 22.1% of its profit in the electricity market.

There are two sectors in the economy: a private one (households and firms) which makes its decisions in a perfectly competitive market framework; and a government which levies a progressive income tax to finance some exogenous level of expenditure which, in this benchmark economy, is neither productive nor enters households' preferences.

We are the first to benchmark this expenditure for Myanmar, and so we cannot yet say if this spending should be more or less.

The level of provider savings is determined by evaluating provider expenditures against the benchmark.

We use statistical hypothesis testing to determine whether any observed difference in provider and benchmark expenditures is large enough to rule out randomness with statistical confidence.

Thus, rather than using threshold values from other accountable care programs (commonly expressed as a percentage of benchmark expenditures) or sticking to "conventional levels of statistical significance", Pope and Kautter [ 27] advocate a more pragmatic analysis of setting the threshold, based on Power Analysis.