What ways government are doing to overcome economic recession?

Goverments use many policies such as the monetary policy and the fiscal policy to try to boost the economy and gradually diminish the recession. ie the policies are to do with lowering interest rates / fees to aid the profits of businesses and organisations and encourage increased money spending by the businesses which will aid the economy because businesses will be running at higher capacities, consumers have more money to spend - boosting economy and recovering the recession gradually.