1. So-called national budgets in many countries are more than 50-per-cent dependent on external financing.

2. As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.

3. The Episcopal Church recently cut its national budget by five percent and has frozen hiring and salaries.

4. Congress approved the national budget.

5. He credits Hamilton for the development of a national budget system, a funded debt, a central bank, a working tax system and a coast guard, and ultimately considers him a master of statecraft .

6. The Russian national budget relies heavily on taxes from the sale of oil and other natural resources, and oil prices have dropped sharply over the past year.

7. About half of Madagascar's national budget, and 70% of investment spending, comes from outside assistance.

8. Roughly 40% of the national budget is spent on the army, while just around 1% each is reserved for health and education.

9. Drastic changes, up or down, hamper longer-term development and can mean re-drafting the national budget at short notice.

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10. Or is it just that Health comes under the national budget but religion is considered to be propaganda? How ironic.

11. According to Burma military experts, 40 to 60 percent of the national budget is allocated to the military.

12. In some developing countries, the costs of treating diabetes alone devour 15% of the entire national budget for health.

13. But while Greek debt spiraled after the Games, China is close to a national budget surplus.

14. The finance ministry raised military spending by 25 per cent in the national budget this week.

15. He says the bank is also working on a plan to lend direct support to Malis national budget.

16. That sum is more than three times Congo's annual national budget and roughly ten times the aid that the "consultative group" of Western donors has promised the country each year until 2010.