Much of the $586 billion stimulus package China unveiled this week will go toward building highways, railroads and airports.
The increase in the budget deficit could be much smaller and more easily reversed than is the case with President Obama's stimulus package.
As part of Beijing's Rmb4,000bn economic stimulus package to battle the global economic crisis last year, China built and upgraded 22 airports.
One is the tax credit for first-time buyers that was included in Mr Obama’s stimulus package: some are rushing to buy now because deals must close by November 30th to qualify.
Economists such as Xie and pettis warn that governments must move carefully as they wind down stimulus packages.
A lot of government cash has flowed to businesses, not least through the stimulus package.
Some officials say the most worrying element of the infrastructure-heavy stimulus package is the fixation with building airports.
The claim that greenery is the future goes back to the fiscal-stimulus package launched by the government last year to revive the credit-crunched economy.
The recession has hit his state particularly hard; but he has been staunchly opposed to the federal government’s stimulus package, which would bring South Carolina an estimated $2 billion-3 billion.
In most countries, stimulus packages were late, badly co-ordinated and too structural.
China's stimulus package is designed to both sustain economic growth and improve people's livelihood.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the measures are "timely, targeted and temporary" — the three goals for an economic stimulus package.
Commodity firms were given a reprieve on March 4th by hopes of a big stimulus package in china-though all they got was reaffirmation of the country's 8% growth target.
Another positive sign is the emphasis on infrastructure spending in many of the national fiscal stimulus packages.
They supported the financial bail-out and the stimulus package, but only by slender majorities.
The defense stimulus package totals 2.4 billion euros, consists of funds brought forward in the defense budget, and is intended to help support the supply chain.
Gross national debt is 180% of GDP and rising, as LDP stimulus packages-justified by the global slump-kick in.
This is why government-financed investment in the stimulus package is concentrated in infrastructure, rather than new factories.
Yet, uncertainties remain as the stimulus packages will one day be exhausted.
The proactive-fiscal-policy-based-4-trillion-Yuan fiscal stimulus package is a second-best choice under the circumstances where efficient demand is inadequate and international trade shrinking.
The stimulus package allows firms to convert the tax break into upfront payments.
He predicts the stimulus package will have an impact quickly.
If the us has a stimulus package, why should the benefit of it extend to other countries?
SR: one of my problems with the stimulus package is that it has been too focused on large projects that can take a year or even more before money really starts flowing through the system.
Congress is arguing about a clause in the $800 billion-plus stimulus package that in its most extreme form would press for the use of American materials in public works.
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