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

Why Stimulus Has Failed

The Bogey of Fiscal Stimulus

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

Is Stimulus Still Necessary?

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

Less Bang for America s Stimulus Buck

Stimulate or Die

All Stimulus Roads Lead to China

It was right to stimulate.

Consolidators versus Stimulators

Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business.

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.

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.

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.

In short, the US stimulus effects on spending have probably been positive but small, and without a decisive effect on the economy.

This kind of enlightened stimulus runs into strong prejudices.

Fiscal hawks also rely on history based arguments.

Government stimulus programs are limited in their ability to restore demand.

This brings us back to the premature withdrawal of fiscal stimulus.

The current stimulus and bailout plans were hatched in reaction to that dreadful week.

It is not a question of stimulus versus deficit. Both are necessary.

Fiscal stimulus is turning into fiscal austerity and a drag on growth.

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

When the first arrow of Abenomics a fiscal stimulus program was launched nearly two years ago, asset markets' immediate response was positive. The second arrow of Abenomics monetary easing intensified these effects.

But the stimulus measures transformed a banking crisis into a fiscal and sovereign debt crisis.

It is all the more important that stimulus packages be channeled into relatively productive investments.

I am one of those who believe that recovery from the crisis requires fiscal stimulus.

Sensory stimulation refers to regaining sensory perception through the use of modalities.

Spinal cord stimulation Electrical stimulation of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord can produce analgesia.

Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

That is why the success of Abenomics hinges not on the short term stimulus provided by aggressive monetary expansion and fiscal policies, but on a program of structural reform that increases competition and innovation, and that combats the adverse effects of an aging population.

On one hand, stimulus had become a dirty word even within the Obama administration well before the Republicans mid term election victory ruled out another round altogether.

Part of the promise of the new push to European integration in the 1980 s was that it would make borrowing easier.

Still, it is not what we don t know about the stimulus plan that is troublesome.

So score the stimulus a very expensive, largely wasted opportunity.

The enormous investments launched in China s interior as part of the government s stimulus program following the 2008 global financial crisis have now become a burden and are increasingly showing up as bad debt on the balance sheets of the country s banks.

Thanks to a massive fiscal stimulus, China veered away from the abyss in early 2009.

His 787 billion fiscal stimulus was good.

But, having said all that, the stimulus package gave the economy a necessary shot in the arm.