The expenditure programme of the Papandreou government during 1981-1990 has been described as excessive by its conservative critics.

The group was charged with identifying expenditure programmes to be cut or stopped, with a view to eliminating the budget deficit by 2011.

When you cut expenditure programs, somebody gets hurt.

The amount would be one of the biggest environmental expenditure programs disclosed by a leading oil company.

"A lot of these things don't get the same kind of scrutiny they would get if they were stand-alone expenditure programs."

He was one of the first to emphasize the problem of the underfunding of recurrent expenditure programs.

Despite this, public expenditure programmes were rarely revised downwards (see Pliatisky 1982), creating inevitable economic problems.

In most expenditure programmes they have considerable discretion over totals and priorities.

It must propose central reforms to the European budget and many of the key expenditure programmes.

The expenditure programmes of the Community are put into effect by the Member States.