Translation of "Social expenditure " (English → French) :

Challenges ahead Finland has managed to maintain its level of performance in the field of tackling social exclusion, even though the share of GDP spent on social expenditure in the country is less than EU-average.

For some time, but more significantly since the mid-1990s, Quebec has found itself at a disadvantage because of the major reduction in cash transfers that was imposed by the federal government on all the provinces, mainly in the CHST, the Canada Health and Social Transfer. These transfers now represent only 14% of the provinces' social expenditures, whereas they represented 18% of these expenditures, on the average, in 1994-95.

Consider that more than 60 per cent of provincial expenditures are social expenditures.

Among the problems of common interest in this field, the Commission has selected three which, it fells, are of particular signifiance for a new and more detailed phase of the exchange of views which has been going since 1983 in the wake of the initial communication on this topic which the Commission sent to the Council in 1982. They are the problems underlying the financing of current or projected needs in terms of social protection expenditure, the implication of demographic trends and the worsening problem of marginalization (the "new poor") which is affecting or threatening a considerable number of people in the Member States. 1. Financing problems In spite of steps taken to curb the growth in social expenditure ...[+++] over the last few years, the public authorities were long unable to restore financial equilibrium and were thus obliged to impose new social charges or taxes. In 1984, the percentage of the gross domestic product accounted for by current public revenue -up to two thirds of which is destined for the financing of social protection - was close to 50% in most Member States.

Among the problems of common interest in this field, the Commission has selected three which, it fells, are of particular signifiance for a new and more detailed phase of the exchange of views which has been going since 1983 in the wake of the initial communication on this topic which the Commission sent to the Council in 1982. They are the problems underlying the financing of current or projected needs in terms of social protection expenditure, the implication of demographic trends and the worsening problem of marginalization (the "new poor") which is affecting or threatening a considerable number of people in the Member States. 1. Financing problems In spite of steps taken to curb the growth in social expenditure ...[+++] over the last few years, the public authorities were long unable to restore financial equilibrium and were thus obliged to impose new social charges or taxes. In 1984, the percentage of the gross domestic product accounted for by current public revenue -up to two thirds of which is destined for the financing of social protection - was close to 50% in most Member States.

—provincial health expenditures alone rose from $48 to $68 billion, or 4% annually.provincial social expenditures rising six or seven times faster than the federal contribution.