GenevaLunch » spending http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no US loses track of $2 billion in Iraq http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/us-loses-track-of-2-billion-in-iraq/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/us-loses-track-of-2-billion-in-iraq/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:47:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66122 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The US Department of Defense is trying to track down $2 billion in unaccounted spending in Iraq, new figures from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction show. The SIGIR was created in 2004 to oversee the country’s reconstruction programme. Last October some $6 billion was reported missing but it was eventually [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/us-loses-track-of-2-billion-in-iraq/feed/ 0 Swiss spend more on food than on taxes http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:08:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63575 GenevaLunch.com Insurance was 8.4% in 2009, but cost has risen for past 2 years BERN, SWITZERLAND – Average disposable household income in Switzerland in 2009 was CHF6,650 a month, with 13 percent of that, CHF1,185, going for food, beverages and restaurants. Housing and energy together made up the largest household budget item, CHF1,495 a month. Transport [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/feed/ 0 New parties strengthen Swiss centre http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/24/new-parties-strengthen-swiss-centre/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/24/new-parties-strengthen-swiss-centre/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:29:19 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=62800 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The slight increase that Swiss political observers were forecasting for the strength of the right during Switzerland’s parliamentary elections failed to materialize as voters turned to new parties to strengthen the centre. The UDC People’s Party and the Greens both lost significant ground to moderate parties with elements of their programs, rejecting [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/24/new-parties-strengthen-swiss-centre/feed/ 0 Swiss elections Sunday promise low drama despite goats, growing right http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/23/swiss-elections-sunday-promise-low-drama-despite-goats-growing-right/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/23/swiss-elections-sunday-promise-low-drama-despite-goats-growing-right/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:28:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62657 GenevaLunch.com Guide to Swiss 23 October parliamentary elections BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss voters are voting Sunday 23 October to elect a new parliament. Headlines, especially outside Switzerland, have tried to build high drama into the voting session, where turnout is expected to be only around 40 to 45 percent, largely because the real drama comes in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/23/swiss-elections-sunday-promise-low-drama-despite-goats-growing-right/feed/ 0 Swiss still travelling, spending more on trips http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/20/swiss-still-travelling-spending-more-on-trips/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/20/swiss-still-travelling-spending-more-on-trips/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31954 GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Residents of Switzerland took 100 million trips in 2008: 3.2 overnight trips and 12.7 day trips per person, show the results of a government survey carried out every five years. And they are spending more money when they do it, CHF148 a day per person for room, board, travel and incidentals [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/20/swiss-still-travelling-spending-more-on-trips/feed/ 0 Swiss spending remains low but retail sector dynamic http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/01/swiss-spending-remains-low-but-retail-sector-dynamic/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/01/swiss-spending-remains-low-but-retail-sector-dynamic/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:18:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=21517 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss spending is showing a mixed picture, with the UBS index for May remaining well below its average: 0.91 in April, down to 0.77 in May, in contrast to its average of 1.50 covring several years. The retail sector, meeting at a conference in Zurich, says its sales rose 4.4 percent [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/01/swiss-spending-remains-low-but-retail-sector-dynamic/feed/ 0 World arms spending up 45% in 9 years http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/08/world-arms-spending-up-45-in-9-years/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/08/world-arms-spending-up-45-in-9-years/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:20:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=19709 GenevaLunch.com The world is spending 45 percent more on arms than it did in 1999, and military spending rose by 4 percent in 2008 alone, says Sipri (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). Worldwide military expenditure in 2008 was an estimated $1,464 billion, according to figures released 8 June to mark the launch of the 2009 edition [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/08/world-arms-spending-up-45-in-9-years/feed/ 0 Swiss health care spending third highest in world, 10.3% of GDP http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/30/swiss-health-care-spending-third-highest-in-world-103-of-gdp/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/30/swiss-health-care-spending-third-highest-in-world-103-of-gdp/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:29:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=14476 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss government’s latest figures for health care costs, for 2007, show that costs “rose markedly higher than in the previous five years,” by nearly five percent in a year, to CHF55.3 million. Given the growth of the economy overall, the share of health care spending as a percentage of GDP [...]

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