Last week, I shared a TV interview about Obama’s budget, but much of the discussion was routine and didn’t warrant special attention. But there was one small part of the interview, dealing with the silly claim
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2021-2022 in the Parliament on Monday. This year’s budget has been promising for the Healthcare Sector amidst the pandemic. There has been an increase of 137% in the overall Health Budget as compared to the previous year. FM annou...
This system is a nightmare for the private sector, thoughvery lucrative for cossetted government officials. But let’s not forget that Europe has foolish agriculture subsidies (asdoes the United States), and this is leading the wine-loving French to actually destroy wine. Here are some excerpts...
(2018), many drivers of a more extractivist form of agriculture can be understood by the state of national economies in the post-war context. After the Second World War, many European countries relied on international credit, with national economies running budget-deficits (Le Noë et al., ...
development and production of air defense systems can be significant. TheGerman Defense Ministryplans to spend €5 billion on air defense from a fund of €100 billion to restore its armed forces in the coming years, the same amount is included in the French defense budget for the period ...
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The CAP spendsmore than a third of the total EU budget(for a population of half a billion people) on agricultural policies that support around 22 million people, most of them neither poor nor disadvantaged as Cummings himself illustrates. Food is chiefly a private good and both the interests ...
In 1994, the Standish Group published its well-known CHAOS report by studying different successful projects (i.e., projects completed within time, within budget, and providing full functionality). It was observed that only 9%–16% of projects were successful, while 32% were canceled, only 42...
84. In the road sector, I have stepped up the Budget allocation for highways from `57,976crores in BE 2016-17 to `64,900crores in 2017-18. 2,000 kms of coastal connectivity roads have been identified for construction and development. This will facilitate better connectivity with ports and...
“We’ve plused up the budget, we’ve secured the Capitol, we’ve interfaced how we gather intelligence from all those agencies, FBI, state police, park police, DC police, Capitol police. Believe it or not, they’re finally sharing information.” It was a note of...