From quantitative easing to record high federal budget deficits to unprecedented bailouts, they have done everything in their power to mask the pain of balance sheet repair and structural adjustment.

A structural budget balance rule allows deficits only to the extent that the current price of copper is below its 10 year equilibrium or output is below its long term trend.

All three rely on budget rules that call for cyclically adjusted budget balance.

The impact of the economy on the budget balance is swifter, surer, and larger than the impact of the budget balance on the economy.

The EU budget should facilitate such transfers in the eurozone, using structural funds.

Had Argentina not privatized, its budget would have been roughly in balance.

Koizumi decided that a primary budget balance should be restored in 10 years.

The balance of unpaid contributions with respect to the 2004 budget was 1,150,840.

Ukraine s government, moreover, was told to balance its budget by massively slashing state pensions.

This, in turn, could delay needed improvements in financial regulation, balance sheet repair by banks, structural economic reform, and fiscal adjustment.

Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, proposes to balance the budget over the next 10 years largely by slashing the program.

Restoring balance and eliminating the distortions will require time, investment, and structural change, and should be the central focus of America s economic policy.

And the US is taking steps to balance its budget, boost private savings, and enhance energy efficiency.

The balance of unpaid contributions with respect to the overall budget of the Tribunal amounted to 2,581,150.

The unutilized balance of 1,400 resulted from charging the requirements under this class to the regular budget.

The unspent balance of 15,700 resulted from charging the requirements under this class to the regular budget.

A federal budget that achieves primary balance has federal revenues equaling spending but with a remaining budget deficit as a result of interest payments on past debt.

The resulting unencumbered balance of 2,678,700 gross ( 2,080,500 net) reflects a budget implementation rate of 93.5 per cent.

The German model for resolving the debt crisis and returning to internal or external balance relies on fiscal consolidation and structural reforms for the deficit countries.

But, they fear that calling for spending cuts will be unpopular, unlike, they hope, demands to balance the budget.

Koizumi sought smaller government and set clear numerical targets for fiscal consolidation, including a primary budget balance in 10 years.

There was a need to balance the reality of budget constraints against the need to avoid prejudice to indigent accused persons.

Romney s fiscal plan thus reduces deficits sufficiently to decrease the debt to GDP ratio. He favors a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, and hopes to balance the budget over eight years.

The European Commission and multilateral lenders should help to facilitate ongoing structural change in the banking sector, including bank acquisitions and balance sheet restructuring for viable export driven companies.

So, in two years, we can expect a debate about whether budget balance has then been achieved on a cyclically adjusted basis.

He further stressed that there was a structural defect in discussing the strategic framework, the work programme and then the budget in total isolation from one another.

In a fragile economic environment, policymakers cannot afford to allow the size of China s balance sheet to distract them from the underlying structural risks and contingent liabilities that threaten its financial stability.

In a fragile economic environment, policymakers cannot afford to allow the size of China s balance sheet to distract them from the underlying structural risks and contingent liabilities that threaten its financial stability.

On May 19, the state s voters, in a special election, rejected an array of tax increases and spending cuts required to balance its budget.

The unspent balance of 9,000 is attributable to the expenses related to the maintenance of information technology equipment being charged to the regular budget.

The US must move to reduce its budget deficit in the medium term. Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.

The change in a country s debt burden reflects the size of its primary budget balance (the balance minus interest payments) as a share of GDP, as well as the difference between its borrowing costs and its GDP growth rate.

The third and perhaps the most disillusioning scandal concerns the Commission on Human Rights, for it lays bare much about the structural and permanent lack of balance and morality within key UN agencies.

Reaching the wrong agreement to defuse the austerity bomb, or cushion the economy from its impact, would merely recreate America s long run structural budget deficit a very bad outcome.

Countries can reduce their national debt by narrowing the budget deficit or achieving a primary surplus (the fiscal balance minus interest payments on outstanding debt).

As of 31 October 2005, there was an unpaid balance of assessed contributions to the overall budget of the Tribunal amounting to approximately 2.5 million for the period from 1996 1997 to the 2005 budget of the Tribunal.

The main point is that restoring growth requires a careful analysis of structural balance, attention to demand constraints in the non tradable sector, and a focus on the impediments to expanding the tradable sector.

But averting such a crisis requires that the White House and Congress, Democrats and Republicans, agree on a plan for moving the US budget toward balance.

It was not until late in the decade, when the banking sector was reorganized and corporate restructuring was encouraged, that Japan made progress on the long, arduous road of balance sheet repair and structural transformation.

The overall budget deficit is still predicted to be 4.1 of Greece s GDP in 2013 a substantial improvement compared to 2010 but still far from fiscal balance.

Without rapid growth, there is no way to reverse persistently high and increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment safely de leverage over indebted balance sheets and prevent already disturbing income and wealth inequalities from growing worse.

The narrower agenda financial reform, stabilizing the housing market, restoring balance sheets, addressing structural deficiencies, and restoring growth and employment would not have captured the public s imagination, and almost certainly would have disappointed Obama s enthusiastic supporters.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Structural and jurisdictional issues

Structural foundations remained intact.