1. In effect, they involve a comparison of the general equilibrium of the economy with and without the government budget. 2. Normal government budgets encourage managers to waste money. 3. To evaluate the impact of government budgets, it is necessary to look at total revenue and total expenditures as a whole. 4. It is the measurement and pattern of redistribution achieved by the government budget that are the concerns of the next two sections. 5. Studies of the impact of the government budget necessarily presuppose what would have been the case in the absence of such a budget. 6. Both are relevant under this heading, which concerns itself with the benefit side of the government budget. 7. Believing that full democracy was imminent, Aguayo and other activists two years ago founded an organization to train private citizens, journalists and politicians to scrutinize government budgets. 8. Because of the coup, the United States and other donor nations have ended or drastically reduced aid to Niger, whose government budget depends heavily upon foreign aid. 9. A second concern is that attempts to balance the government budget by cutting spending will slow the economy too much. 10. A pot of money from donors that goes into government budgets? |