Likewise, during expansions, higher government spending is more likely to crowd out private spending.

Health expenditures represented about 6.1 of total government spending.

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

The main concerns were about government spending.

The problem is not that governments lack resources to spend, but that higher government spending, taxes, and debt are eroding economic growth and future living standards.

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.

The fundamental economic effect is to reduce government spending.

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

Many on the left, on both sides of the Atlantic, argue that more, not less, government spending is required to lift their economies out of recession.

Government spending on health has been increased, and it will be raised to two to three per cent of GDP over the next year.

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

Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary.

Cameroon turned to foreign aid, cut government spending, and privatised industries.

To avoid such an outcome, Brazil s leaders must increase the efficiency of government spending and use the freed up resources to clear infrastructure bottlenecks.

Canada and the UK have had periods of important reductions in the share of government spending.

Economists agree that, at full employment, higher government spending crowds out private spending.

Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary. But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.

As a share of total government spending, defense expenditure has fallen from 7.8 in 1998 to 6.1 in 2006.

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

Government expenditure on health was at US 112 per person in 2006.

Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages. If this is financed by cutbacks elsewhere in the budget, the main consequence will be only a re distribution of government spending, which is not necessarily inflationary.

Officials and others who favor stimulating growth through increased government spending ignore the CBO s more realistic alternative scenario.

Since 1998 expenditure in this sector has increased from 22 to 29 per cent of Government spending in 2003.

Opponents of tax increases should see that, because such revenue raising is really cutting government spending, it does not imply the adverse incentive effects of raising marginal tax rates.

A few (not many) worry that this bout of government spending will result in inflation.

Government spending remains large enough to guarantee reasonable public services and a social safety net.

And Italy s parliament rejected many of Monti s proposed reductions in government spending.

Slowing the growth of government spending for Medicare and Social Security is necessary to prevent a long term explosion of the national debt or dramatic increases in personal tax rates.

Labour s model of the economy implies maintaining the deficit for as long as needed, and even increasing government spending if the recovery appears to be flagging. But Labour is too afraid of the markets to say so openly.

There is a way out of this trap, but only if we tilt the discussion about how to lower the debt GDP ratio away from austerity higher taxes and lower spending toward debt friendly stimulus increasing taxes even more and raising government expenditure in the same proportion.

As a result, government expenditures and household incomes are up substantially since Saddam Hussein s last years in power.

According to an official press release of the Government of American Samoa, budget spending showed an excellent response from government departments on a directive to cut and tighten spending.

(iii) Increasing government expenditures on population programmes

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

The dilemma is that, whereas fiscal consolidation is necessary to prevent an unsustainable increase in the spread on sovereign bonds, the short run effects of raising taxes and cutting government spending tend to be contractionary.

But this direct link between higher household saving and a lower dollar will only be forged if higher household saving is not outweighed by a rise in government dis saving, i.e., by a larger government deficit.

Policymakers initially resorted to government spending and low interest rates to boost demand.

Under normal circumstances, I would oppose this rise in the budget deficit and the higher level of government spending.

This year, Azerbaijan s military budget alone exceeded total state spending in Armenia and Karabakh.

It calls for solutions that guarantee income and insulate government expenditure and repayment of debt from swings in oil prices.

The US currently has the smallest share of government spending in GDP, although it has gained substantially on Canada because of the spending explosion since 2000 President George W. Bush s military spending and Obama s social spending

At a time when every component of private demand was collapsing, the boost from higher government spending and lower taxes stopped the global economy s free fall and created the basis for recovery.

Both effects can lead to increased trade in illiquid assets today, and unlock lending, though this outcome may require significant government outlays.

Some countries (for example, Greece and Portugal) relied on debt financed government spending to fuel economy activity.

Saudi Arabia produced a pro development expansionary government expenditure package for 2005.