Rather than have extensive annual discussions on expenditure allocations in Scotland and Wales, a formula was devised as a percentage of total expenditure for each of the countries.
A McKinsey study of capital expenditure allocations from 1990 to 2005 across business units in more than 1,600 firms found that each year's capital allocation correlated closely more than 90% with the previous year's.
The fiscal reform rebalanced revenue and expenditure allocations between central and local governments and re-centralised economic management and compensated central government's revenue shortfall (Zhang and Zou 1998; Zhang 1999).
There is extensive evidence that reduced public expenditure allocations to the health sector have adverse consequences for the health of populations, which substantiates the ecological findings of this analysis.
Capital Expenditure budgets were reduced in some areas, while no capital expenditure allocations were made for (a) juvenile institutions, (b) Family Courts, (c) Central Food Organization Store, (d) Institute of Sports, etc.
-- Gender patterns in household health expenditure allocation: a study of South Africa". (2008).
Because a high proportion of national income is now devoted to public expenditure, allocation decisions become more significant in political and economic terms.
All countries have an annual program of public expenditure allocation, in which those responsible for individual programs argue for greater allocations for their activities and those responsible for raising the money attempt to control the amount allocated.
This paper follows this approach and examines the effect of natural resources on public expenditure allocation in China's context.
Here the interest is in examining how the expenditure allocation across different consumption items evolves with the income level of the household.
Addressing these unsolved problems, this paper employs a county-level dataset from Shanxi Province to explore the effect of coal resources on government expenditure allocation.
