Explanation

(a) A public recurrent expenditure is government spending on items that recur or repeat themselves on yearly basis, e.g. salaries, wages, expenditures on repairs
and maintenance, etc. 

(b) The reasons for the rapid increase in government expenditure are: 
(i) increase in employment and high salary and wage bills have increased government expenditure. 
(ii) increase in price of commodities. 
(iii) increase in population has led to greater demand for social services 
(iv) huge resources are committed to the settlement of increasing internal and external debts. 
(v) need to develop faster has led to huge expenditure on capital projects such as dams, roads, other infrastructure etc. 
(vi) social disruptions such as wars, ethnic clashes, natural disasters etc have increased government expenditure 
(vii) change over of governments - government spend on elections, legislators and local governments, etc 
(viii) corruption e.g. over invoicing, inflation of contracts etc.

• an argumentative essay to support the motion that says technical and vocational education should be mandatory in secondary school in... Answer this

  2 Answers   ·   English Language   ·   4 days ago
• who is the was the first nursing mother of the prophet(s.a.w)? Answer this

  1 Answers   ·   CRK/CRS   ·   1 day ago
• Please answer this. For those that there jamb result is still showing "under investigation" is there any news about or... Answer this

  1 Answers   ·   1 day ago