Speaking at a parliamentary committee on Monday, the deputy finance minister, Dimitris Mardas, said Berlin owed Athens €278.7bn, according to calculations by the country's general accounting office.
As a step towards addressing this issue, GAVI changed the co-financing requirement calculation in 2012 to be a percentage of UNICEF's WAP by vaccine presentation to account for the fact that single dose presentations can have a significantly higher price than multi-dose presentations.
In finance, asset risk calculations are becoming harder, with hundreds of variables to simulate.
The proposal is scheduled to be the subject of a Congressional hearing today, along with related administration proposals to tighten pension financing rules and revise calculation methods.
"We are concerned about the blatant attempts to whip up a non-existent fear of mass starvation by some aid agencies, a type of hype that does not provide a solution to the situation on the ground but more to do with calculations for operations financing locally and abroad," the president said.
The calculations are done for public financing and private financing, and then the two are compared.
Masajuro Shiokawa, the finance minister, was making political calculations instead.
Some analysts believe a downturn in the global economy since Osborne gave a rosy prognosis for public finances last autumn has thrown his calculations off course by as much £18bn because of lower than anticipated tax receipts.
The term "mechanical licensing collective budget" means a statement of the financial position of the mechanical licensing collective for a fiscal year or quarter thereof based on estimates of expenditures during the period and proposals for financing those expenditures, including a calculation of the collective total costs.
We have to credit the calculations of the finance men, particularly at GM, and contracts the company has signed with the United Auto Workers union.
