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Brazil's President Dilm Rousseff a 66 billion dollar stimulus plan to revive the country road and transport systems in order to bolster the economy. The government predicts a growth of 3% in 2012, down from the 4.5% growth in 2011. In order to maintain the GDP growth at what it was the previous year the government plans to invest 66 billion dollars into the country transport system in order to promote jobs and growth within the country. As this is not a transfer payment (tax revenue redistributed to pensioners, veteran, and the unemployed) the government is contributing to the economies gross domestic product. This stimulus plan would go to wages of the people working on the transport system and the purchase of capital goods necessary to make the improvements. In order to maintain the GDP per capita in Brazil it is necessary for the economy to grow at the same rate as the population.

This article discusses the need for the U.K. government to "show some political backbone" by becoming more enterprise friendly in order to stimulate the badly required growth of their economy. U.K. business leaders have become increasingly concerned as the CBI has predicted that the U.K. economy will shrink by 0.3% this year. This fall in GDP is a sign that the country is entering a double-dip recession. The reason behind this is declining exports, the on-going euro crisis, a stagnant economy since the coalition, reduced borrowing on credit cards, an increase in unemployment and a lack of household spending. A reduced borrowing on credit cards and lack of household spending directly affects GDP as GDP can be calculated using the expenditure method, where household consumption is one of the factors taken into consideration. If consumption falls, so does GDP. In order to prevent the GDP from falling further and to promote economic growth, schemes such as tax breaks for small firms taking on extra workers ,schemes that boost the mortgage and household market and schemes that support household expenditure have been implemented. This could lead to a rise in employment as well as expenditures, causing GDP to grow.