The really important target for any country starting an adjustment program with a double digit current account deficit must be export growth. Missing this target is what has set Greece apart.

Yes, there are whispers that the pace of fiscal consolidation could be slowed indeed, France has already been given more time to hit its deficit target.

This deficit reflects an underlying research deficit.

If GDP falls, achieving a certain deficit and debt target (as a share of GDP) becomes impossible. This, indeed, was the debt death trap that engulfed Argentina between 1998 and 2001.

BERKELEY The United States is beset by four deficits a fiscal deficit, a jobs deficit, a deficit in public investment, and an opportunity deficit.

That restructuring will occur, deficit spending or no deficit spending.

There is both a knowledge deficit and an understanding deficit.

As mentioned in paragraph 630 above, the UNOPS deficit for 2004 would have been even higher had the delivery and, consequently, revenue of its Afghanistan Project Implementation Facility not exceeded its forecasted target.

According to the government, substantial tax increases will bring the fiscal deficit below the 3 of GDP limit set by the Stability and Growth Pact a target missed for five consecutive years by 2007.

Recent US elections rarely spared China, which found itself a frequent target of populist demagoguery. Its exchange rate regime, which pegs the Renminbi to the US dollar, was blamed for the mounting US trade deficit.

Then, Pierre Moscovici, the finance minister, said that Europe might grant France a delay in meeting the 3 of GDP budget deficit target mandated from this year onward under the eurozone s newly ratified fiscal compact.

Any target can be justified as being a planned target or being closed to a planned target.

As the account includes international payments for both trade in goods and financial claims, a deficit in a country s Target account indicates foreign borrowing via the ECB, whereas a surplus denotes foreign lending via the ECB.

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Europe s Trust Deficit

Europe s Vision Deficit

The Energy Deficit

The Skills Deficit

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder predominantly inattentive (ADHD PI), formerly attention deficit disorder (ADD), is one of the two types of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The counterargument hinges on the difference between the current account deficit and the trade deficit.

Thus, in order to keep the current account deficit stable, the trade deficit must shrink.

Europe s Pointless Deficit Targets?

America s Misplaced Deficit Complacency

Closing Europe s Defense Deficit

Global Warming s Technology Deficit

Latin America s Education Deficit

Closing America s Jobs Deficit

The Global Trust Deficit

But none of these is the deficit that really matters. The deficit that prevents Europe from drawing a line under its crisis is a deficit of trust.

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Romney has provided few details about his deficit reduction plan. But, based on what he has revealed, we know that it would increase the jobs deficit, the investment deficit, and the opportunity deficit, with negative consequences for future growth and prosperity.

When the crisis struck, the 3 deficit target became the focal point for unrelenting austerity a form of what anthropologist Clifford Geertz described as involution, which occurs when a process intensifies rather than changes in response to external or internal pressure.

The real reason why central bank independence tends to create a democratic deficit under a multi target monetary policy regime, and why it has become increasingly vulnerable, is that the two main arguments in favor of it no longer apply.

The Sino American Trust Deficit

The budget deficit, unsurprisingly, ballooned.

The Dangers of Deficit Reduction

What is the Deficit Endgame?

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One 2009 study found that carbohydrate deficit after exercise, but not energy deficit, contributed to insulin sensitivity increase.

But, based on what he has revealed, we know that it would increase the jobs deficit, the investment deficit, and the opportunity deficit, with negative consequences for future growth and prosperity.