An increase in bank loans allows households and businesses to increase their spending.

Some claim that infrastructure spending creates a big Keynesian multiplier, a bigger increase in incomes than the initial spending (estimates range up to about 1.5 times the initial increase in spending).

That meant that the acceleration of growth in consumer spending accounted for nearly 100 of the increase in GDP, with the rise in durable spending accounting for almost half of that increase.

Others maintain that a temporary increase in spending now would boost growth.

This in turn had made it possible to increase recurrent public spending in public services.

As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

The US should increase spending on programs to improve the police.

This will be even more important in the future as China carries out its plan to increase domestic spending, especially spending by Chinese households.

The key driver of the increase in final sales was a strong rise in consumer spending.

That figure matches closely the fall in household saving and the resulting increase in consumer spending.

In both of these cases, large groups of people in America decided to increase their spending.

Last month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also announced yet another increase in Russian defense spending.

If the increase were considered permanent, however, it would make sense to increase spending or reduce tax pressure.

The resulting rise in equity prices would increase household wealth, providing a boost to consumer spending.

The reason Europeans are reluctant to increase defense spending is expense. Cutting welfare spending where the big money is would be painful.

Total direct travel spending in California reached 96.7 billion in 2008, a 0.8 increase over the preceding year.

Local governments were encouraged to increase their spending on public infrastructure projects in order to maintain growth.

Today, consumers' global spending power continues to increase, with private consumption expenditures totalling 22.1 trillion in 2004.

Obama, by contrast, would run larger deficits his spending increase is much larger than his tax increase which imply large tax hikes in the future.

This regional stasis may worsen as a result of growing nationalism an increase in social divisions within states weapons proliferation and an increase in military spending and environmental degradation.

Unfortunately, past spending pushed up wages, without a commensurate increase in productivity, leaving the heavy spenders indebted and uncompetitive.

In short, Latin American countries have used their additional export revenues to pay down debt and increase social spending.

Similarly, the tax changes in such a stimulus package should provide incentives to increase spending by households and businesses.

BRUSSELS Is it time for fiscal consolidation or stimulus? Should governments cut or increase spending?

Efforts were made to prioritize work on the budget and increase coordination with spending agencies.

In addition to the automatic decline in tax revenues and increase in social welfare spending during a recession, many nations added large spending increases and or tax cuts to try to stimulate their economies.

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.

Many governments increase spending excessively in booms, and then are forced to cut back in downturns, thereby exacerbating the cyclical swings.

At one extreme stands Argentina, with the largest increase in public spending relative to GDP in Latin America (almost ten points).

The resulting fall in wealth has reduced consumer spending, while the decline in homeowners equity prevents borrowing to finance any increase.

And the government will increase its spending on consumption services like health care, education, and housing.

I see this very plainly spending so much time in Jerusalem, where East and West there is an emphatic increase in religiosity.

Likewise, a 100 million annual increase in spending to develop a vaccine against HIV AIDS would generate substantial benefits in the future.

In each country, there has been a sizeable increase in public spending in the last few years, particularly in the US and the UK

The increase in Canada s public spending as a share of GDP since 2000 has been the smallest of the four countries

Various reforms were proposed to increase spending on the school system and improve the standard of education.

Recently, the European Central Bank reiterated its position that serious fiscal consolidation would generate enough increase in private sector confidence that gains in spending by households and businesses would more than offset lower spending by governments.

The rapid rise in house prices until 2006 caused households to increase their spending, financed in part by converting home equity into cash.

Such a policy would entail committing to a major increase in spending on research and development, as Asian developing countries have done.

But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.

Despite the massive tax cuts of 2001 and the increase in military and security spending, the US experienced a prolonged jobless recovery.

Abe plans to supplement the easy money strategy with an increase in government spending of some 120 billion, or 2 of GDP.

The Government has resolved to increase public spending in education to at least six per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

To address those issues we have promoted a rapid increase in spending for social services to put a stop to growing poverty.

But you cannot argue that these groups did not increase their spending, and that their increased spending did not pull large numbers of Americans roughly two million in each case into productive and valued employment.