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'My worry is that current thinking is betting too much on social spending as a way to get out of this problem, ' he said.

With the financial heart shot out of the economy, tax revenues have fallen dramatically just as social spending has increased.

"We are going to see some unique social spending on housing which will put big demand on all commodities, " he said.

Government official say social spending has spurred higher consumption of food among the poor.

To gamble that social spending is the way to get out of the imbalances is wrong.

The government claims to have squirrelled away enough to maintain social spending and pay public-sector wages.

Now budget cuts look set to erase much of the social spending that set Scotland proudly apart from the rest of Britain.

The miserable record of its social spending deprives firms of well-nourished, well-schooled workers, and saps the political will for reform.

it is likely to make efforts to raise the tax take and redirect subsidies, helping it to channel additional funding into social spending.

This looks like the combined effect of earlier reforms and the ramping up of social spending.

Social spending, if it is done right, lowers the motive for precautionary savings.

If tax cutting is not a path to automatic prosperity, neither is unconstrained social spending.

But notwithstanding this week's move to boost consumption by raising social spending, China is not acting fast enough.

By increasing social spending, the leadership has started to repair some of the damage from the 1990s, when rural incomes barely grew.

Congressional Republicans might support rebate cheques, but would probably oppose plans for more social spending.

The program highlighted Obama's focus on economic and social spending changes that Democrats say aim to benefit many average Americans.

Ukraine devotes a third of GDP to social spending. Less than 2% of GDP goes to infrastructure investment.

New social spending assumes a continuation of the growth rates of the past 30 years of nearly 9% on average.

Total social spending (including education and health) is to rise about 20% in the next 12 months.

The last six years have seen important progress in the way social spending is administered.

Expanding the definition of poverty without ballooning social spending will be doubly difficult.

Mr. Putin described the 2009 budget changes as an "optimization, " pledging to preserve and even increase some social spending.

But it is hard to imagine an assault on social spending with a general election due in 2012.

Social spending should be done regardless of the macroeconomic cycle, it's the right thing to do. '

No such self-correcting possibility emerges for rising debt levels from social spending.

The rate of increase in social spending is also set to slow.

To narrow the wealth gap, Wen promised more social spending, a higher minimum wage and taxes on real estate.

Mr Correa has hugely increased social spending but now faces lower oil prices and falling remittances from some 2m Ecuadoreans abroad.

The real potential for fiscal spending to have an impact on consumption, though, is through social spending.

Today, it is shifting social spending to the neglected interior, to boost consumption and to stave off a social explosion.

Safety nets needed as social spending declines, poverty rate rises in rural areas.

She has ignored calls to step on the brakes, instead increasing energy and transport subsidies and social spending.

To bribe voters, Mr Lukashenka raised salaries and social spending.

In Chile, the past two months have seen huge marches by students and trade unions demanding higher social spending.

There are over 400 apps and games where the site's 500 million users can go on a social spending spree.

Yet social spending remains low and, the more people age, the more it is likely to increase.

As elsewhere, Hungary's underlying problems arose from wage rises unmatched by productivity growth and social spending that is too generous.

Social spending is set to leap by 17% next year, as the government attempts to encourage "inclusive" growth.

Social spending, meanwhile, remains the lowest in Asia, according to the IMF.

Germans are angry about cuts in social spending.

A big increase in social spending, paid for at first by a high oil price and then by defaulting on debt, brought Mr Correa popular acclaim.

Korea, argues Mr Jones, needs to increase taxes and social spending in order to reduce poverty and inequality.

Social spending is certainly high in egalitarian countries such as the Nordics.

That share may fall if Chinese growth slows or the government faces demands for more social spending.

The government has trimmed public spending by fully 3. 8% of GDP this year, with most cuts falling on social spending and public-sector pay.

After last week's budget, social spending now accounts for 35 per cent of spending, up from 26 per cent in 2003.

At that time, social spending power at the macro policy of nurturing and support, but will also have a substantial increase.

But as a result, social spending is low (11%);