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Romania Expenditures
Financing the national economy (including capital
investment)
claimed the largest share of the state budget throughout
the
postwar period. More than 43 percent of the 1989 state
budget, for
example, was earmarked for this purpose. Social services
were the
second largest recipient, getting slightly more than 25
percent of
1989 budget allocations. Actual outlays for social
services,
however, had declined during the belt-tightening of the
1980s.
Reliable figures for military expenditures were generally
not
available, although according to official pronouncements,
they were
modest and declining as a percentage of total outlays,
accounting
for less than 3 percent of the 1989 budget, as compared
with 6.1
percent in 1960. Allocations for the police and security
service
were never published. A large portion of total budgetary
expenditures (more than 27 percent) was not itemized in
the 1989
state budget, as compared with 14.8 percent not itemized
in the
1984 budget and only 1.7 percent in 1965 (see
table 4,
Appendix).
Data as of July 1989
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