"We saw,with the stimulus the effort to rush and spend, what can happen if you jam major legislation before people have an opportunity to understand what is in it,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Aside from the high jobless rate, Mr.Obama credits his $787 billion economic stimulus plan with the recent improvement in the nation's economy.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

He noted that industrialized economies have responded to the world recession and its related job losses with stimulus programs and widened social safety nets.

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said participants are satisfied with the fiscal stimulus measures taken by several countries to prevent further declines in economic output.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

But those decisions also leave Europe at odds with the Obama administration, which has pushed European countries to spend more on domestic economic stimulus plans.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Republicans also link potential costs with what they say is the failure so far of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the $787 billion stimulus plan approved by Congress to speed up economic recovery, an assertion the president and Democrats reject.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Despite disagreements over the scope of further fiscal-stimulus programs with some of his European colleagues, Mr.Brown said great progress has been made through joint action during the past few months and he said the G20 summit must build on that progress.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

In a first reaction the EU's executive branch, the European Commission, said it was confident the Czech Republic could continue to "effectively preside over the European Union" despite the government losing a no-confidence vote in Prague Tuesday's vote of no confidence came after the opposition said the government came to late with a stimulus package of over three billion dollars to boost the ailing economy of this Eastern European nation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25