Japan, unlike other big economies, is in the enviable position of having a budget surplus.
不像其他经济大国,日本有着令人羡慕的预算盈余。
The budget, which was in surplus little more than a decade ago, now has a deficit of Greek-style proportions.
现在的预算,在十年以前还会有点剩余,现在却有和希腊一样比例的赤字。
Sweden, like the other Nordic countries, is likely to run a sizeable budget surplus in 2008.
瑞典和其他北欧国家一样,很可能在2008年实现可观的预算盈余。
The first is a numerical policy rule, such as a target for the debt ratio or, as in Chile, a pledge to run a budget surplus of 1% of GDP over the business cycle.
首先,要有一个量化的政策体系,例如债务目标比率,或像智利一样,在经济周期中把预算盈余设定为占gdp的1%。
Housing repossessions are still very rare; the state budget is still in surplus even as California and New York teeter on the edge of bankruptcy.
收回房屋抵押的情况还很少见;州预算仍有盈余,而连加利福尼亚州和纽约州都已经在破产边缘摇摇欲坠了。
But the euro crisis has exposed the weakness of public finances in a country that has not run a budget surplus since 1974.
但是,欧债危机把这个国家公共财政的缺点暴露无遗,自1974年以来法国的财政便未出现过盈余。
The budget posted a surplus in 2008 but this was partly due to a one-off boost from sales of mobile-phone licences.
预算公布了2008年盈余,但这大部分是由于集中激励移动电话销售而造成的。
The primary budget balance (ie, excluding interest payments) was in surplus in the run-up to membership but has been in deficit since 2003.
在加入欧元区前夕,希基本预算平衡(即不包括利息支出的预算)尚有盈余,但2003年以来一直处于赤字状态。
Such people, land-rich but cash-poor, may now submit their credits to the state treasury for a full cash refund whenever the state budget is in surplus.
象他们这种情况——农场牧场万顷,钱袋空空如也——现在可以将所得税扣除额提交给州财政,只要州财政预算有赢余,就能要求全额现金返还。
Over the past decade, China's budget deficit was very low, and in 2007 it ran a budget surplus.
过去10年来,中国的预算赤字很低,2007年还出现了预算盈余。
the state budget is still in surplus even as California and New York teeter on the edge of bankruptcy.
州预算仍有盈余,而加州、纽约州还在破产边缘摇晃。
The budget surplus he inherited is now a deficit, the fiscal hole in America's retiree programmes is bigger than ever, the tax system is an unstable, patched-up mess.
他接手时的预算盈余如今已是赤字,退休计划造成了美国有史以来最大的财政亏空,而税收体系处于极不稳定、漏洞百出的混乱状态。
He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus.
他提出了第一个平衡预算法案并在数十年来首次实现了预算盈余。
Mr Osborne planned to go into the 2015 election with a buoyant economy and a structural surplus; a modest tax cut in the pre-election budget would have rewarded voters for suffering the squeeze.
奥斯伯恩先生计划通过上涨的经济和结构性的盈余来赢得2015年的大选,大选前预算中适当的减税将会作为之前对选民压榨的回报。
Mr Osborne planned to go into the 2015 election with a buoyant economy and a structural surplus; a modest tax cut in the pre-election budget would have rewarded voters for suffering the squeeze.
奥斯伯恩先生计划通过上涨的经济和结构性的盈余来赢得2015年的大选,大选前预算中适当的减税将会作为之前对选民压榨的回报。
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