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IN the wake of the lower-than-expected economic growth in the third quarter of 2014, the contribution of government spending to the economy has become the focus for analysts and policymakers. Retracting 2.9 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, government spending, or rather the lack of it, was blamed for slowing growth, a problem that seems to have continued in the fourth quarter.

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