If recession remains the problem, the stimulus policies should stay in place, or even be strengthened.

But, while stimulus policies were mostly effective in dealing with the immediate crisis, they did not address the long term issues that impede growth.

Keynesian stimulus policies might help ease the pain a bit for individual countries acting in isolation.

The strong, decisive, and deftly timed stimulus policies at the start of the financial crisis did, of course, play a major role in China s quick rebound.

In particular, he will need to go beyond Keynesian fiscal stimulus policies to heal the deep wounds to economic confidence that lie at the root of the current crisis.

So stimulus policies should aim to stimulate not just demand per se they must focus, instead, on stimulating ecologically friendly demand.

The exception has been China s dramatic stimulus measures, which, being industrial policies, will be a source of severe trouble in the future.

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Little wonder that, with mid term congressional elections coming in November, Americans are angrily asking why the government s hyper aggressive stimulus policies have not turned things around.

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

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Powerful business interests will lobby for different policies when they believe that fiscal stimulus yields only inflation than when they believe that it generates higher aggregate demand.

The most important thing for ironing out cycles is not the stimulus policy implemented after a crash has already occurred, but to be proactive in boom times and stop bubbles in their early stages.

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It was right to stimulate.

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Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business.

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

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The true effectiveness of these packages is not clear.

Moreover, India s government adopted a pro active fiscal policy, rolling out two rounds of stimulus packages. The authorities pursued pro growth policies, including lower interest rates, expanded credit, and a reduction in excise duties.

This partly explains the curious flow of funds from developing countries to the US from whence the world s problems originated.

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

Redistributive measures go quite well with stimulus policies, because they may be expected to increase aggregate demand in the short term (owing to lower income households higher propensity to consume) and minimize the economy s dependence on debt financing in the long term.

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.

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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.

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.