As a percentage of gross national product, social and human resources expenditures are expected to rise to 18.9 percent in 1995.

As recently as the early-1970s, social expenditures amounted to only about 6% of Japan's national income.

The costs of war enabled government to claim that they could not afford social expenditure.

Until recently, there was no wide taxation on social expenditure, contrary to most of its European partners.

Given its high level of social expenditures, one would expect a higher poverty reduction than that attained by this model.

We will have to increase social expenditures without increasing the fiscal deficit.

The deficit of the country skyrocketed, as military and social expenditures increased a great deal.

It requires looking at switching social expenditure from passive to more active models.

A yawning gap was forecast between anticipated social expenditures and resources.

Despite this policy innovation, however, social expenditures on health had increased ten-fold in real terms since the early 1950s.