One such issue I can address is the problem of operating a budget deficit.
Specifically, a member nation should not have a budget deficit that exceeds three percent of GDP.
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There are mild nerves about a budget deficit that may hit 8% of GDP this year.
Brown succeeded in raising taxes and boasted that there was no longer a budget deficit.
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We had a budget deficit equal to 10% of GDP when I took over.
Now, to patch a budget deficit, Michigan's Democratic governor has suggested reincarnating its death tax.
Morgan expects even Singapore's government to run a budget deficit this year and next.
Their first task will be to deal with a budget deficit approaching 4% of GDP.
The federal debt increases every time there is a budget deficit at the end of the fiscal year.
He insists his government will manage to cut a budget deficit that hit 8.9% of GDP last year.
The mayor is still battling with a budget deficit and is trying to overcome decades of gross mismanagement.
The tax is aimed at correcting a budget deficit in the island which is also introducing a zero rate corporation tax.
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Officials have said Russia faces a budget deficit this year of around 8%.
Only 10 years ago, Turkey had a budget deficit of 16% of gross domestic product and inflation of 72%.
Foremost on their minds are double digit unemployment, now at 12%, and a budget deficit that nearly matches that.
To join economic and monetary union (EMU), Hungary must have a budget deficit of less than 3% of GDP.
But America cannot long maintain a budget deficit of almost 9% of GDP.
And Washington has had to grapple with a budget deficit now larger in proportion to its population than even California's.
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Since the current-account balance equals the net saving of the private and public sectors, a budget deficit boosts the external deficit.
Spain is barely growing and it too needs to tackle a budget deficit likely to be around 9% of GDP this year.
The government has run up a budget deficit equivalent to 5.6% of GDP -- 1.6 percentage points higher than the IMF wants it to be.
Class sizes in Detroit high schools are expected to go up to about 60 next year because of school closings to help minimize a budget deficit.
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It has emphasised that it is trying to get to grips with a budget deficit and working practices which were created when Labour was in power.
CiU's core supporters, anchored in small, family-owned businesses, are suffering as Mr Zapatero tussles with a budget deficit worth 11.2% of GDP and continuing slow growth.
The government would have to privatise and clean up the banking system to prevent future catastrophes and to control a budget deficit that could trigger hyperinflation.
The Europeans point the finger in particular at President George Bush's government, which is projected to run a budget deficit of 4.7% of GDP this year.
But because of its dire fiscal finances (a budget deficit of 10% of GDP last year), the government has had much less room to spur growth.
An inflation rate of 20.4% in 1990 is down to 2.2%, and a budget deficit equal to a staggering 29% of GDP is now a manageable 1.5%.
It is an astonishing transformation for an economy that just 10 years ago had a budget deficit of 16 percent of gross domestic product and inflation of 72 percent.
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