Paradoxically, the most eloquent advocate in government for balance in financing priorities has been Mr. Gates, the defense secretary.
Mary Selecky, Washington State's secretary of health, described the administration's financing priorities as "a little out of whack".
Statewide, the Glendening administration, using a smart-growth program of carrot-and-stick financing priorities, has managed to drastically shift the pattern of spending on school construction.
The political scientist Ted Hopf wrote in a 1993 article that experts failed to anticipate the Soviet Union's collapse largely because the military establishment played such a big role in setting the government's financing priorities.
But then, broadly speaking, foreign-aid donors moved away from such interventions, which were viewed as meddling with the free market, and shifted financing priorities to areas like education and AIDS.
We arranged to meet at the Union Club in Manhattan in early December, when Hayflick showed up to harangue fellow board members of the American Federation for Aging Research about their financing priorities.
Figure 1 also shows that financing priorities of governments in Europe have shifted from integrated condom programming to research into vaccines and microbicides between 2003 and 2004.
In other words, there is a need for MoH to speak the language of MoF and thus engage into serious negotiations on financing, priorities and on the outcomes and outputs.
Mr. Putin is using it to finance "priority national projects," like improved health care and education, and access to affordable housing.
The objective of the Chinese negotiators was in part to "guarantee the supply of crude oil for PetroChina in the medium term", while the Ecuadorian government wanted to "obtain access to a favourable line of credit to finance priority projects," the document says.
