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Today, there seems to be ample reason for pessimism and little about which to be confident and optimistic in social welfare, economic and financial, fiscal and financial sector trends in Japan.
FORBES: Hello Forbes Readers! About Whither Japan
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On her page on the Parliament website, her "special interests" are listed as Economic Policy, European Affairs, Social Policy, Welfare Reform, Employment, Families.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | What's in Ruth Kelly's in-tray?
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In short, by implementing anti-deflation and economic growth-stimulating deregulation, while holding down increases in social welfare spending, above-listed objectives 1. and 2. can be realized without increasing taxes.
FORBES: Takenaka Heizo's Reform Plan
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Westminster talk of welfare reform chimes with public concern that economic inactivity is linked to social ills.
ECONOMIST: Help, and a hard shove, for the jobless
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The chart above reveals the pernicious effect redistributive social welfare spending has had on net private investment, the driver of economic growth.
FORBES: Memo To The President: We Can't Tax, Spend And Print Our Way To Prosperity
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His is acute in pointing out that the debate over raising the consumption tax to fund old age social welfare programs is missing the critical issue which must be to restore economic growth.
FORBES: Academic Appeal for "Small Government"
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The Industrial Revolution involved hugely painful economic and social dislocations though nearly everybody would now agree that the gains in human welfare were worth the cost.
ECONOMIST: Profits over people
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The DPJ promised more welfare spending and a better social safety net, but has struggled to deliver amid the economic downturn and 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
BBC: Japan PM Yoshihiko Noda set for general election
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Political issues are usually divided into two major categories: social issues (like abortion, drug use, gay marriage, or capital punishment) and economic issues (like welfare, taxes, and health care).
FORBES: Exit Stage Left: Possible Societal Costs if the Economy Fails to Recover