There was a lot of bank rescue in economic stimulus and there was a lot of economic stimulus in rescuing banks.

The real failings in the Obama recovery program, however, lie not in the stimulus package but in its efforts to revive financial markets.

The effect of economic stimulus is redoubled by this kind of inspirational belief.

Why is Germany so hesitant when it comes to economic stimulus programs?

This policy stimulus led to strong growth, in both consumption and investment, and economic activity recovered quickly.

Japan is another Asian giant regaining confidence, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s energetic stimulus program.

Imagine much of the economy organized like the taxi industry. Most kinds of economic stimulus won t generate more taxis, until entry restrictions are reduced.

Germany should prepare its economic stimulus program now and implement it when the time comes.

An economic and social recovery programme has been designed and implemented.

The Macroeconomic Management Support Programme.

2005 204 Basic programme of work of the Economic and Social Council for 2005

Basic programme of work of the Economic and Social Council for 2006

Programme of the Economic and Social Council Ad Hoc Group visit to Haiti

Why Stimulus Has Failed

The Bogey of Fiscal Stimulus

Is Stimulus Still Necessary?

The real failings in the Obama recovery program, however, lie not in the stimulus package but in its efforts to revive financial markets. America s failures provide important lessons to countries around the world, which are or will be facing increasing problems with their banks

But no German economist has come out against an economic stimulus program, and many favor one.

Less Bang for America s Stimulus Buck

Stimulate or Die

2005 218 Multi year work programme for the coordination segment of the Economic and Social Council

Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (Council decision 1992 265)

But the key thing to bear in mind is that the stimulus effect is a one time rise in the level of activity, not an ongoing change in the rate of growth.

All Stimulus Roads Lead to China

It was right to stimulate.

Consolidators versus Stimulators

Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business.

But when the GDP figures for the second quarter are reported later this summer, the government s statisticians will annualize the 1.5 increase and add 6 in calculating the annual growth rate. If economic activity apart from the stimulus package is continuing to decline at nearly the 6 annual rate that was recorded in the last two quarters, the temporary boost from the stimulus package will suffice to make the overall GDP change close to zero or even positive.

Second, Krugman s claim that a vastly larger fiscal stimulus would have generated a more rapid economic recovery in the US depends entirely on conjecture.

A consumption tax hike should be timed in such a way that it does not suffocate the economic recovery that Abe s bold economic program, dubbed Abenomics, is facilitating.

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

It's an approach built much more around intrinsic motivation.

Applying the principles of human motivation to pharmaceutical education.

The Economic and Social Council takes note of the list of questions for inclusion in the programme of work of the Council for 2006.2

And the cost of carrying the extra debt incurred is extraordinarily low 12 billion a year of extra taxes would be enough to finance the fiscal stimulus program at current interest rates.

Moreover, the AJA would have offered some balanced budget stimulus the kind of stimulus that would boost the level of economic activity without increasing the volume of government debt.

In recent months, there has been a surge in LGIV bond issuance, aimed at supporting local governments efforts to stabilize economic growth through stimulus style investment projects.

Such activities were coordinated by UNDP and by ECOSOC bodies, such as regional commissions.

8. Notes with satisfaction the ongoing cooperation between the United Nations Development Programme and the Economic Cooperation Organization under the capacity building project of the secretariat of the Economic Cooperation Organization

The theory behind the massive economic stimulus efforts that many governments have undertaken rests on the notion of the output gap. This is the difference between an economy s actual output and its potential output.

The true effectiveness of these packages is not clear.

Moreover, America s stimulus program obviously worked (notwithstanding criticism from the left for being too small, and attacks from the right for being too large).

In the wake of the global financial crisis, local governments borrowed heavily from banks to support China s massive stimulus program, amassing 10.7 trillion ( 1.7 trillion) worth of debt by 2011.

As early as the second half of 2009 that is, before bond markets got nervous policymakers top priority was to find the exit from fiscal stimulus.

Compared to the 787 billion stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama last month, that 32 billion is trivial. It s also less than 0.25 for every 100 that Americans earn.