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All this helps explain why China's stimulus has been slow to arrive and why, now that it has arrived, it's a little underwhelming.

Key to the effectiveness of China's stimulus plan so far has been a race by local governments to spend the money.

Matters would be worse if it were not for Washington's stimulus package, which provides more than $135 billion to support state budgets.

And that the effects of China's stimulus will wear off the moment the government stops sending out the checks.

So far, Obama's stimulus package does not include refundable credits, though they could be included in later legislation.

A signal goal of China's stimulus program is to ensure that the idle jobless do not become an engine of social unrest.

The Fed's stimulus plan is the central bank's third definitive attempt to aid the U. S. 's patchy economy since 2008.

The government's stimulus package demonstrates that it is aware of the risks in the global economy and is prepared to act decisively.

EARLY this year, many China-watchers warned that the government's stimulus was not enough to save the economy from a deep downturn.

Vanke has been a major beneficiary of the economic recovery, and Mr. Wang overall applauded the government's stimulus efforts.

Mr. Ma said the government's stimulus push could help his bank increase its medium- and long-term lending and improve its asset quality.

World markets were mixed Thursday due to investor concerns over the U. S. stimulus plan and more gloomy corporate news.

This problem gets at a much bigger issue: What damage has China's stimulus plan done to its financial system?

China's stimulus is the most spectacular, but Brazil has also been able to cut interest rates and boost spending.

Mr Obama's stimulus plans add up to $175 billion over two years.

"China's [stimulus] package is already paying off, " Mr Wen said at the forum's main event. "The situation is better than expected. "

"The government's stimulus plan will increase the demand for metals but I think we should not be too optimistic, at least for now. "

Rudd's stimulus worked: Australia had the shortest and shallowest of recessions of the advanced industrial countries.

The federal initiative provides job training and career counseling, and is being expanded by President Obama's stimulus spending.

Many economists, myself included, have argued that the Obama administration's stimulus plan is too small, given the depth of the crisis.

He still has no macro-policy to rival Mr Brown's stimulus.

Even Germany's stimulus is only slightly smaller than the US's as a percentage of output.

China's stimulus will have to be paid for down the track .

Many details on China's stimulus package have yet to be released, but what we know so far is promising.

Fiscal policy is turning contractionary as America's stimulus expires and much of Europe implements austerity measures.

China's stimulus, if you combine money from the government with an avalanche of bank loans, dwarfs that in the United States.

President Obama's stimulus package, which offers money for "green" infrastructure investment, will accelerate that pace, experts say.

But the bulk of Mr Rudd's stimulus, almost A$30 billion, will go on infrastructure: new school buildings, road repairs and house insulation.

Although it was a late convert to the need to do more, Germany's stimulus has worked well.

Mr Obama's stimulus bill helped to pay for some of this, but that money has dried up.

China's stimulus package was the earliest and best-known example of fiscal shock and awe.

The slowing decline in Chinese trade has also been taken as a sign that the country's stimulus package is working.

The miners are resisting the call and delaying the negotiations, gambling that Beijing's stimulus package will boost steel demand this year.

"If Obama's stimulus gets moving with the infrastructure, " he contends , demand will rise for Caterpillar's heavy machinery.

On Deutsche Bank estimates, China's stimulus actually needs less than $150bn of annual lending.

China's stimulus program is having a demonstrable effect on domestic spending which has resulted in increased manufacturing activity.

Massive bank lending over the past year, part of Beijing's stimulus package, has found its way into real estate speculation.

Recent consumer demand from China, spurred by Beijing's stimulus measures, has provided some relief to Taiwanese companies.

The increase in the budget deficit could be much smaller and more easily reversed than is the case with President Obama's stimulus package.

One potential boost for the flat-panel TV market is demand from China, as Bejing's stimulus measures start to take effect.

After November's stimulus program gave them the go-ahead, authorities in the northern city of Harbin started expanding their port in March.

And China's stimulus package has produced much needed infrastructure that will reinforce future growth.

The Obama administration's stimulus policies are not well-targeted. The Republican alternatives are even worse.

Whatever effect Sunday's stimulus ends up having, it's no substitute for the continuing reform China's economy needs.

From an economic perspective, Obama's stimulus plan is equivalent to a giant welfare scheme.

They think America's stimulus will boost GDP by only one-sixth as much as the Obama team expects.

But thanks to President Barack Obama's stimulus package, efforts to get faster trains on track may finally be gaining speed.

American lawmakers have already put "Buy America" provisions into the country's stimulus package.

But it now appears to be stabilizing, in large part because of the speed and heft of the country's stimulus spending.

The state won the bulk of the $8 billion in grants for high-speed rail included in President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.

The mistakes of critics of China's stimulus package can be set out against that framework.

Mr Obama's stimulus programme included nearly $30 billion for road- and bridge-building and an $8 billion commitment to high-speed rail.

All else being equal, China's stimulus package should be sufficient to absorb the newly unemployed and keep growth above 6 per cent.

Germany and France, partly helped by Germany's stimulus programme, surprisingly exited recession in the second quarter.

China's stimulus has soaked up demand for industrial output, giving relief to sectors hit by slowing exports.

Japan's stimulus plan followed the passing of a Y1, 800bn supplementary budget earlier this month to fund the first stimulus package.

China's stimulus package is designed to both sustain economic growth and improve people's livelihood.

News of China's stimulus package helped push oil prices higher at midday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

"In the short term, Beijing's stimulus and monetary policy are perpetuating the imbalances. "

Democratic leaders in Congress largely agree with Obama's stimulus priorities.

As part of Beijing's stimulus program, money supply (M2) growth jumped from 19 per cent in January 2009 to 29 percent in June of that year.

China's steel over-production is overwhelming demand created by the government's stimulus package and depressing profits for larger mills.

It is important that some version of President Barack Obama's stimulus package gets approved by Congress as quickly as possible.

The authorities are concerned: high inflation suggests that the government's stimulus measures are causing the economy to overheat.

In January, Mr. Koesterich says, hopes for the new Obama administration's stimulus package could help stocks.

One way to get the money: the expanded tax credits for renewables in Obama's stimulus plan.

But isn't America's stimulus programme, I asked him, a necessary part of fighting the crisis?

America's stimulus package, by contrast, musters only $8 billion for high-speed rail, with some extra requested in this year's budget.

The government's stimulus plan, while large, can't restore growth without a return of private-sector investment.

All these factors are not only part of China's economic rescue package, but of Obama's stimulus plan as well.

Most analyses of America's stimulus efforts in the 1970s conclude that they were badly timed.

But medium- and long-term lending has also increased strongly, suggesting that the government's stimulus package has started to kick in.

The big promise; What did Barack Obama's stimulus package really achieve?

The short-lived effort in the U. S. to insert a 'buy American' clause in the U. S. stimulus package received wide play in China.

This can't last, but backers of China's stimulus believe there won't be any serious economic downside when the bubble bursts.

More capital will be needed to finance the Obama administration's stimulus package.

Mr Obama's stimulus is winding down; state- and local-government cuts continue.

Both Canada and Mexico abhor the "Buy American" clause in Mr Obama's stimulus package.

President Barack Obama's stimulus plan should clear its first hurdle today.

She believes the cement sector is promising given the benefits of China's stimulus package.

Debate over Mr Obama's stimulus plan in January gave the book another lift.

That leaves an awful lot riding on Beijing's stimulus package and monetary policy.

A major prong of the government's stimulus program was a flood of lending by banks.

A piece of China's stimulus package will be felt here at home.

The scale of Asia's stimulus may have matched, even surpassed, the west.

Barack Obama's stimulus package contains about $4. 5 billion in grants for smart-grid investments and regional demonstrations.

Markets roared their approval to China's stimulus package on Monday.

But executives were optimistic for the second half? on the back of China's stimulus package.

The benefits of some elements of Germany's stimulus programme are already being felt.

China's stimulus has worked a little too well.

One of the most obvious examples has been the government's stimulus plan.

Obama's stimulus package contains $8bn for high-speed and urban rail projects.

The government's stimulus package announced last November has rescued China from the global downturn.

"It's getting harder for the government to find ways to spend money productively. It's stimulus for the sake of stimulus. "

But the gloomier forecasts tend both to overstate the importance of exports and to understate the size of the government's stimulus.

Both Canada and Mexico abhor the "Buy American" clause[1] in Mr Obama's stimulus package.

He cast the deciding vote for Barack Obama's stimulus bill.

America's growth may also slow as firms stop rebuilding their stocks and the government's stimulus tapers off.

China's stimulus: Got a light?

Well President Obama's stimulus package was $787 billion; the expected federal deficit this fiscal year is $1. 8 trillion.

China's stimulus package is good news for the world at large.

Will Washington's Stimulus Plan Work?

The government's stimulus package is likely to work.

Helped by Beijing's stimulus measures, China's economy is expected to grow 8. 3 percent this year, according to government forecasts.

But the real cause is Beijing's stimulus plan after China's economy plunged into recession in late 2008.

The real question is whether China's stimulus is big enough?

The reason for China's stimulus is simple.

Growth will "stabilize" in the second half thanks to the government's stimulus measures.

Still, news of China's stimulus package helped the company's stock, which surged 7. 9% to 78. 00 Australian dollars (US$52. 77).

Some $3. 4 billion earmarked for CCS found its way into America's stimulus bill.

But is that going happen after today's stimulus measures are withdrawn?

To be fair, the president got some green initiatives into last year's stimulus.

None of this is on the same scale as 2009's stimulus.

Chinese oil demand surged 7. 2% from 2008 as the government's stimulus package revived construction and car sales.

China's economic growth was already widely expected to slow in coming months, as the impact of last year's stimulus policies fade.

The Sunlight Foundation, for example, was not eligible to build recovery. gov, a data site that tracks America's stimulus bill.

President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, by contrast, was equivalent to 2-3% of GDP in both 2009 and 2010.

Beijing's stimulus is smaller than the number announced last year, but it is still the biggest in the world.

Last year's stimulus package created excess money and sparked inflationary pressures.

The overriding reality is that, because of Beijing's stimulus spending, there are too many properties and not enough buyers at this time.

Calls for more government action to boost the economy follow last year's stimulus package.

California's plans were given a boost by Barack Obama's stimulus package last year.

Propelled by the government's stimulus package, China produced steel at an annualised rate of 545m tonnes in June, a record level of output.

THE banks of China did their duty by supporting the government's stimulus efforts last year.

Last year's stimulus package included $1. 5 billion to prevent it.

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