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• n  (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure

• Based on their review of spillover patterns from past civil wars, Brookings' researchers believe Iraq's collapse would result in refugees streaming into neighboring countries .
• Polls show Brown well ahead nowand the ad also had a spillover effect.
• Part of it also can be traced to a me-too spillover from the diagnostic arena.

News & Articles

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• Lebanon Feels The Pain Of Syrian War Spillover
  Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Michael Young, the opinion page editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, about the spillover of Syria's conflict into Lebanon.
  June 16, 2013 - NPR
• Killing of 4 Shiites in Lebanon deepens tension
  BEIRUT (AP) — Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian tensions and concerns over the spillover of the civil war raging next door.
  June 16, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• UN chief: Syria spillover threatens Golan truce
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from Syria's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and Israel in the disputed Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable U.N. peacekeeping force there by more than 300 troops.
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in KTAR.com
  High rates of delinquency and foreclosure can have substantial spillover effects on the housing market, the financial markets and the broader economy,Bernanke said in a dinner speech to Columbia Business School in New York.
• Zhou Xiaochuan in Wall Street Journal
  The outbreak of the crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflected the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system,Mr. Zhou said.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Voice of America
  The spillover effects from instability directly impact the neighbors. Obviously, we see global implications from the war in Yemen and the ongoing efforts by al-Qaida in Yemen to use it as a base for terrorist attacks far beyond the region,...