In October,Greece said its budget deficit would reach almost thirteen percent of its gross domestic product last year.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

President Obama had this reaction to Thursday's report on the gross domestic product a wide measure of goods and services in the economy.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Despite a doubling of its gross domestic product in the past five years, Sri Lanka still requires foreign aid and loans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

In France,Mr.Sarkozy says focusing too much on gross domestic product as the main measure of prosperity contributed to the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

He said the country could see its gross domestic product grow by 2.5 to five percent in 2010, "in an optimistic scenario."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

And the economy has been hit hard by the fall in the price of diamonds which make up one-third of its gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

In addition, Hondurans living in the United States send home around $2.5 billion in remittances, which represent around one fifth of the Central American nation's total Gross National Product.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

The Kremlin leader says expenditures will exceed revenues for the first time in ten years, creating a budget deficit of no less than seven percent of the country's gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

on a path to long-term, sustainable fiscal health. But he told reporters that achieving another objective, cutting the deficit in half as a percentage of gross domestic product within five years, would require "modifications,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"Turkish public opinion could not agree with the fact that an Israeli aircraft would be training on Turkish territory, while at the same time there are gross human rights violation being committed in Gaza,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

And as governments invest heavily in economic stimulus plans, their deficits are expected to soar to about 7.5 percent of gross domestic product - more than twice the limit allowed under EU rules.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

By 2016,governments would be required to stabilize or begin reducing the percentage of their debt as measured against total gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced in a given country.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

Thai stocks closed down two percent,Wednesday. Despite the dip in Thailand's stock exchange, Cohen says the country's gross domestic product has shown good signs of recovering, along with the rest of Asia, from the global down-turn.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The director of the Harare-based Research and Advocacy Unit,Tony Reeler, says a review of investigations by numerous rights groups shows that torture and gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe have been perpetrated for decades on what he calls an epidemic scale.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21