Yet, although even the IMF is crying out for the classic Keynesian boost to infrastructure spending, there is precious little sign of a favourable response from policymakers, especially in the beleaguered eurozone.
With only an outline sketch of an agreement on the table, many of Europe's most senior policymakers are of the opinion that a crisis point will be reached and that Athens's radical left Syriza government will be forced to either capitulate to Brussels or quit the euro.
Policymakers and politicians usually embrace this "political blackness" when addressing ethnic minority communities, but it makes as little sense when it comes to predicting voting as it does in other areas of life.
As a route to influencing policymakers, the election uncovered the lack of power in the black vote.
Greece's embattled finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, stepped up his war of words with eurozone policymakers on Thursday, saying he wished his country still had the drachma, and would not sign up to any bailout plan that would send his country into a "death spiral".
Well-insulated London politicians, policymakers and commentators controlling the most powerful communications may fool enough of the people enough of the time.
She is an energetic anti-poverty campaigner, infuriated by the media's vicious attacks on "benefit scroungers" and the inability of politicians and policymakers to comprehend the slender margins of breadline life.
"Policymakers will at least be reassured that fears of a renewed recession look overplayed, for the time being at least.
Many of the inaccuracies the CIA fed to journalists, the report says, were consistent with inaccurate information being provided by the agency to policymakers at the time.
The background information the HDR provides can be used to inform development work and enable activists and policymakers to make useful comparisons.
Let's be honest: if it had not been for us – activists, scholars, policymakers, artists, celebrities, dignitaries, and every day concerned citizens of the world throughout the world – we would not be experiencing the very necessary virtual Nigerian spring that we are experiencing today.
