Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages.

Thus, greater reliance on fiscal policy increased government spending would be necessary.

Thus, it is possible that increased government spending say, to boost car purchases could exacerbate the misalignment.

A substantial part of the increased deficit will be due to a wide range of new government spending.

Such increased accountability will shift government spending toward programs related to people s needs and away from physical structures.

His strategy the three arrows of massive monetary expansion, increased government spending, and structural reform is theoretically sound.

First, spending on high return public investments should be increased.

Government spending, no less than government transfers, has actual beneficiaries.

Or public spending all European leaders adamantly want to reduce government spending.

True, government infrastructure spending is often wasted.

In the 1960 s, Friedman showed that Keynesian demand management through government spending constantly increased the money supply, accelerating wage and price growth.

But Europeans are showing little taste for increased defense spending, Iraq or no Iraq.

Prestige spending has increased, absorbing enormous sums for the benefit of a privileged minority.

And government spending is as good as anybody else s.

Less spending means that the government will be smaller.

Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary.

Each voucher cost the Colombian government 24 a year more than its previous education spending per student, but the vouchers increased attendance rates and test scores.

Government revenues are set to equal government spending when the economy is growing normally.

Government spending can also help, but its role is limited.

A stimulus is a government engineered boost to total spending.

The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.

But the resulting economic slack gives us the historic opportunity and need to compensate for low consumer spending with increased investment spending on sustainable technologies.

There has been much discussion of how to cut government spending, but too little attention has been devoted to how to make government spending more effective.

But government spending has continued to grow, because voters still want the services that government provides.

To be sure, the major eurozone countries large national debts preclude using traditional Keynesian policies increased spending or reduced taxes to raise demand through increased budget deficits.

Past experience suggests that each 100 increase in household wealth leads to a gradual rise in consumer spending until the spending level has increased by about 4.

Net government spending also helped to reduce overall inequality over those years.

Indeed, not only has government spending been rising as a share of income so, too, has spending across many service sectors.

Spending in these areas accounts for less than 10 of US government spending, and this share has been declining over time.

Denmark elected a center left government committed to higher government spending financed by new taxes on the rich.

A stimulus is a government engineered boost to total spending. Government can either spend more money itself, or try to stimulate private spending by cutting taxes or lowering interest rates.

Rather than respond to globalization with more government spending on education, infrastructure, and technology, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980 by pledging to slash government spending and cut taxes.

Calls for greater government assistance increased as the U.S. economy continued to decline.

To raise consumer spending, the Chinese government must reverse both of these trends.

They will buy the new government debt and leave all spending decisions unaltered.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the government did not go on a spending binge.

They also had an expose on government spending concentrated in the governor's hometown.

Increased emphasis on household lending should also create a better balance in the economy between capital spending and consumer spending than was possible during the expansion of 2002 2004.

This is the case in America, where nobody really worries if increased military spending will create a temporary deficit.

Second, the government budgeting process must be opened up through both public hearings in the national legislature and public participation via the media. Such increased accountability will shift government spending toward programs related to people s needs and away from physical structures.

And consumption remains low only about 50 of GDP when government spending is included, and just 35 when limited to household consumer spending.

These same Republicans also argued for government spending restraint while blocking the institutional changes to Congressional procedures needed to make spending restraint possible.

And its automatic stabilizers, with spending automatically increasing as economic woes increased, held out the promise of moderating the downturn.

The increased spending leads to higher employment, an increase in capacity utilization, and, eventually, upward pressure on wages and prices.

Much of the stimulus merely financed increased spending by state governments that would have been paid for in other ways.