Portraying Economic Competence in Malaysian Federal Budget Speeches

Health care prices, the federal budget, and economic growth.

Rising health care spending, led by rising prices, has had an enormous impact on the economy, especially on the federal budget. Our work shows that if rapid growth in health care prices continues, under current institutional arrangements, real economic growth and employment will be lower during the next two decades than if health price inflation were somehow reduced. How big the losses are and ...

Federal Budget Trends and the 1981 Reagan Economic Plan

N EARLY 1981, a newly inaugurated Ronald Reagan announced an economic plan which included goals of “an immediate, substantial, and sustained reduction in the growth of federal expenditur-es [and] a significant reduction in federal tax rates 1 After two terms in office, it seems time to examine the original Reagan budget plan in light of the actual performance over the 1980s. Althoirgh the budge...

Federal Budget Trends and the 1981 Reagan Economic Plan

N EARLY 1981, a newly inaugurated Ronald Reagan announced an economic plan which included goals of “an immediate, substantial, and sustained reduction in the growth of federal expenditur-es [and] a significant reduction in federal tax rates 1 After two terms in office, it seems time to examine the original Reagan budget plan in light of the actual performance over the 1980s. Althoirgh the budge...

Federal budget 2012/13.

In 2009, the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommended the establishment of a universal dental program for Australia. This recommendation was not implemented and the Australian Government’s 2012/13 budget allocated $515.3million to improve dental services, with something of a shorter term focus on the needs of low income earners. After 16 difficult years for states’ and territo...

Federal budget disappoints seniors' advocates.