A combination of softness in the economy and reductions in MGNREGA expenditures (declines of 3 and 36% in the last two years) have played a key role.
Personal consumption expenditures declined 2% and I remember one quarter when they dropped almost 7%, an unprecedented statistic.
In contrast, total AGI declined 12.2percentt over this period ($1.06 trillion), while personal consumption expenditures declined 1.9percentt (Internal Revenue Service various years; U.S. Dept of Commerce).
The rate of tax rebates to annual central expenditures declined over the years, and it was the highest among the three types of central expenditures until 2005 (see Table 4 and Fig. 2).
Defense expenditures declined decade by decade from a Korean War high of 13.8% of the economy in 1953 to 3.7% in the 2000s, with steadily reduced economic impact.
The majority of the refugees are seeking shelter in the traditionally deprived Northern and Bekaa regions of Lebanon, where already vulnerable host communities are seeing increased expenditures, declines in incomes and an erosion of public services.
Government health expenditures as a percentage of total health expenditures declined from 36.8% in 1999 to 9.8% in 2005 [ 22, 25].
The proportion of government health ministry budgets going to salaries (already high in many countries) tends to increase as capital spending and other operating expenditures declines.
Based on the Senegal data, Diop (2005) finds that the ratio of premium contributions to household expenditures declines steadily from 3.8% among the poorest decile of households to 0.4% among the richest decile.
This effect was driven by rising LTCI spending, as SHI expenditures declined concurrently, as plotted in Figure 2. Owing to increasing LTCI expenditures, costs of formal care for females exceeded costs for males at more advanced age, which affected cases about 10 years earlier than control subjects.
