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

Yet, despite increasing economic costs, Iran s response only hardened.

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

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In Tanzania, next year s budget provides for a 44 increase in poverty related spending.

Low interest rates, the dollar s continuing role as the world s main reserve currency, and the capacity of the public sector to increase spending make the case for higher infrastructure spending compelling.

Increasing infrastructure spending by a quarter, which would represent a huge administrative effort, would lift GDP growth by just 0.4 percentage points.

Indeed, the wage increases of recent years have not changed the basic cost structure of Chinese companies.

The government must avoid relying too much on proposals for tax increases, which ultimately feed back on growth and sustainability. It would be far preferable to balance tax increases with some reversal of runaway government spending.

It would be far preferable to balance tax increases with some reversal of runaway government spending.

That restructuring of insurance would simultaneously protect individuals, increase labor mobility, and help to control health care costs.

The projected spending increases are equal to 15 of GDP, and are the largest that any country has undertaken so far in response to the financial crisis.

Moreover, any increase in spending on infrastructure or any revenue loss from tax reform should be offset elsewhere.

Meanwhile, scaling up infrastructure spending could provide an often overlooked opportunity for long term institutional investors.

The fall in taxes and the rise in spending do widen the budget deficit, but in a healthy and useful way.

The people who are more likely to be able to afford a small dent in their earnings are the ones less likely to use that service!

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

Several factors have prevented high oil prices from affecting the demand for petroleum products in the US in recent years, such as increased government spending, low interest rates, tax breaks, and an increase in real incomes.

Of course, the drag will be much smaller, as tax increases and spending cuts will be much milder.

The second arrow entails a sharp increase in short term fiscal expenditure, especially investment in infrastructure projects.

Just a 0.1 increase in borrowing costs would mean hundreds of millions of euros in extra debt service payments a year.

But that would require them to rely less on monetary policy and more on appropriate fiscal policies (such as higher spending on productive infrastructure).

And widening interest rate spreads on government bonds do not bode well, either, as this will quickly lead to pressure for further spending cuts.

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.

Payroll tax relief and spending on programs like food stamps and unemployment compensation are much more effective.

Low income countries have posted larger gains in health and education spending than other countries under IMF programs.

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Productivity performance did not vary dramatically between northern and southern European countries from 2000 to 2010 in fact, average annual productivity growth was faster in Greece than in Germany (1 versus 0.7 ). But labor costs increased much faster in the south, resulting in differential cost increases that cannot be addressed by devaluation as long as the monetary union endures.

But labor costs increased much faster in the south, resulting in differential cost increases that cannot be addressed by devaluation as long as the monetary union endures.

It's the increased order.

An increase in gasoline taxes is set for January 2003.

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Cutting expenditures on the Iraq war and increasing expenditures on education can simultaneously increase output in the short and long run and reduce the deficit.

Short of default and inflation, most countries are forced to accept big tax hikes and spending cuts, often triggering or deepening a recession.

There is little waste to cut from domestic spending, and many areas where increases in public spending are needed.

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43. Also decides to reduce non post resources by 2 per cent, other than for travel of staff, contractual services and general operating expenses

Several other areas of reform in finance, labor markets, foreign investment, tax reform await action. Another goal should be to increase the government's spending on research and development, especially in areas of health, agriculture, environment and information technology.

Another goal should be to increase the government's spending on research and development, especially in areas of health, agriculture, environment and information technology.

One of the longest standing propositions in economics is the balanced budget multiplier increasing taxes and expenditures in tandem stimulates the economy.

Other parts of the stimulus went to individuals, but, given the nature of the fiscal package, increased transfers and spending added more to the national debt than to GDP.

George Soros can bet on a run on the British pound.