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

They account for half of public spending.

Public sector spending amounts to 53 of the GDP.

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

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

Public support for spending cuts is also difficult to win.

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

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

However, spending on infrastructure wins more public support and creates fewer protests.

Healthcare expenditures comprise only 0.6 of private health insurance and public spending.

In Pakistan both the public and private spending on health is low.

Japanese consumers knew that increases in public spending were temporary, so they did not change their spending habits, rendering the policy ineffectual.

This assumes Ricardian equivalence debt financed public spending at least partly crowds out private spending through its impact on expectations and confidence.

The GCC countries new spending packages are likely to perpetuate public sector hypertrophy.

The main beneficiaries of public spending are the poor and the middle class.

Politicians operating on short electoral cycles inevitably target public spending at potential supporters.

But it is not on the horizon yet, which means that there would be no positive private spending response to buffer public spending cuts.

Cut public sector spending directly, while creating incentives to induce lower private sector expenditure.

Lawmakers also should consider providing public investors with a say over political spending decisions.

China successfully navigated the crisis, avoiding a significant slowdown, by ramping up public spending.

Unlike in the US, where federal public spending grew as a consequence of the creation of new expenditure programs throughout the twentieth century, public spending was already high at the national level when Europe began to integrate.

Fiscal consolidation means less public spending. And less spending means less upward pressure on prices which is the last thing Europe needs in a deflationary environment.

At the same time, public spending acts as a brake on overall spending, and prevents the rapid cost escalation to which America s private insurance companies contribute.

What turned the country around, he claims, was labor market liberalization and restrained public spending.

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

Meanwhile, higher public spending on capital investment and other special procurements will boost domestic demand.

And one of the first victims of difficult economic times, I think, is public spending of any kind, but certainly in the firing line at the moment is public spending for science, and particularly curiosity led science and exploration.

He and his finance minister, Gordon Brown, stuck to their predecessors public spending plans, for example.

Indeed, the efficiency of public spending is doubtful, with scant positive results to show for it.

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

Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti s government accomplished a major pension reform, cut public spending, and raised taxes.

Clearly, however, such processes can have little effect if political spending is not transparent to public investors.

Annual spending on fixed expenses, such as debt service and pensions, is not subject to public participation.

On the other side are those who insist that additional public spending is still needed to support demand.

But public opinion does not seem to matter if the issue is mandatory disclosure of political spending by corporations.

Given scarce public funds and fiscal constraints, to increase spending, users must cover a higher share of the costs.

Moreover, a public company s political spending decisions should not be solely the province of management, as they often are.

It slashed public expenditure and capped spending at 35 of GDP the same level as in the United States.

Representatives of the Bretton Woods institutions have repeatedly stressed the effectiveness of the control of public spending in Burundi.

Beyond improving public accounts, a large part of the revenues from high commodity prices were used to increase public spending, although this proportion varied from country to country.

In the midst of a gloomy crisis for public spending in Britain, the government has committed itself to sticking to its pledge of spending 0.7 of GDP on development assistance in poor countries.

Their leaders in Congress are already declaring that they will slash public spending in order to begin reducing the deficit.

McCain s solution seems to be more of Bush s policies tax cuts for the rich plus promises to curb public spending.

This created powerful barriers to public investment, as government spending was siphoned into massive profits for banks and their shareholders.

The 2008 financial crisis, aggravated by useless Keynesian public spending, has brought all European states to the edge of bankruptcy.