Ministries of health are developing costed implementation plans and adding contraceptive line items to their budgets," she said.
What's especially unfortunate is that several states are now considering raising their general sales tax, the one that applies to most retail items, to deal with budget problems.
And the next morning, my husband added a line item to the budget for "consumer electronics (amount unspecified)." "How can you add an unspecified amount to a budget?" I asked.
"That could be a big item," Toomey says, apparently unaware that it won't be a big item, to the budget, at all.
MEPs want spending levels for those major budget items to be at least maintained at the 2007-2013 level but also want "significant increases" in budgets for competitiveness, small business, sustainable infrastructure and research and innovation.
4. Allow flexibility in the re-allocation of budget items to support the implementation of School Improvement Plans (SIPs) until the government is able to finance these items through the budget process in consultation and coordination between the Ministry of Education and UNICEF at the country and regional levels.
For Mr Chopra, one ambition is to find a way of linking specific budget items to actual expenditure.But whatever governments do, the presentation of endless facts can fall flat unless there are independent developers who know what to do with them.
The claim that funds were inadequate could result from a lack of readiness to allocate the budget items to the programmes perceived to be donor-driven or could stem from a lack of experience and capacity to prepare or implement the plan.
As you get more comfortable with preppy style, keep adding other preppy items to your wardrobe (when your budget permits).
In grim economic times grants to artists are sometimes among the first items to be chopped from organizations' budgets.
More than sixty per cent of imports are parts and components that go into U.S. products, and a large portion of the rest are staple items to which people on limited budgets are particularly price sensitive.
