The following quote refers to the 2009 fiscal stimulus, which included about $150 billion of government spending for "shovel-ready" projects:
The original plan called for putting "shovels in the ground" within 90 days. But it often took six more months to a year before most of the projects were under construction…Weatherization, for example, was billed as the low-hanging fruit of the clean-energy movement. But states are still sitting on roughly a billion dollars in unused grant money because of a tortured bureaucracy, in which the federal government paid the states, which paid local nonprofits, which then hired the contractors. (New York Times, Feb. 11, 2012)
This quote refers to
a. the decision lag
b. the implementation lag
c. the information lag
d. the political lag