The last time the government ran an absolute budget surplus - which means generating more in revenues, including tax yields, than the entire expenditure - was in 2001.
The last time the government ran an absolute budget surplus - meaning that it generated more in revenues, including tax yields, than it spent - was in 2001.
The line producer answered, "We haven't done an absolute budget.
For all but a handful of allies, defense budgets - in absolute terms, as a share of economic output - have been chronically starved for adequate funding for a long time, with the shortfalls compounding on themselves each year.
In absolute terms – the MoD's budget is £33bn – this outlay is a drop in the ocean.
The need for more rational choices in weapon programs and in the deployment of scarce resources increased as the defense budgets grew in absolute size (though falling as a proportion of a growing GDP).
The governor noted that the spending plan for 2002-3, aboutout $98 billion, would be smaller in absolute terms than last year's $100 billion budget, the first such decline since the recession of 1992-93.
Whereas Kenyan health budgets had risen in absolute terms until 2005 [ 7], the health care services for the majority of rural and urban poor has deteriorated.
China's military budget continues to increase in absolute terms.
But America's economy is enormous, so its $21.8 billion aid budget was still the biggest in absolute terms.
