How much can be spent effectively is only one question.
Brown says that, as chancellor, he had to ensure money was being spent effectively.
But the increases are not keeping up with the disease, and funds aren't being spent effectively.
Whether the money has been spent effectively will not be seen until after Election Day.
If spent more effectively, critics of international reconstruction strategies argue, this money could have had a greater impact.
Finance Ministry officials, however, disputed this, saying public works money is being spent effectively.
Such figures are of limited value in that they contain no guide as to whether the resources have been spent efficiently or effectively.
But it offers few details to suggest that this new money will be spent any more effectively than the old.
It is tremendously important that the very little amount of money we have should be spent efficiently and effectively.
Here, our main problem is to ensure that what we plan to spend is also effectively spent.