Reducing the government budget deficit is a major goal of the current government.

If there are investors willing to finance U.S. government budget deficit, why wouldn't we find investors willing to finance press freedom deficit?

Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.

Growth is endangered, the ruble is weak, and the government budget is in deficit.

The French government has run a budget deficit each year since the early 1970s.

As a result, however much the government cuts its spending, its deficit will barely shrink.

Last year India's BJP led government introduced legislation mandating sharp reductions in the budget deficit.

Why, then, did local government balance sheets swing from surplus to deficit over the same period?

If the government continues on this path, many expect next year s budget deficit to widen further.

This article includes a chart representing revenues, expenditures and resulting deficit or surplus of government budget.

A government cannot liquidate its deficit if the source of its revenues, the national income, is diminishing.

That will prolong excessive government spending, and deficit targets will not be met on a sustained basis.

This deficit reflects an underlying research deficit.

A substantial part of the increased deficit will be due to a wide range of new government spending.

They want less government, lower taxes, and a smaller deficit, a combination to be achieved seemingly without pain.

The government sought to cover this deficit through monetary expansion, which led to a dramatic increase in inflation.

The German government also successfully passed a constitutional law requiring the government deficit to be capped at 0.35 of GDP in 2016 and eliminated by 2020.

Since that exceeds the size of the government deficit, it implies that private markets do not need to buy any of the newly issued government debt.

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

In some countries, fiscal policy is crippled by legitimate fears that more deficit spending will trigger government debt crises.

Under normal circumstances, I would oppose this rise in the budget deficit and the higher level of government spending.

The government has pledged to apply the proceeds of sales to reducing the public debt and the budget deficit.

Political efficacy Allowing citizens to participate in government processes would increase the political efficacy and counteract the democratic deficit.

The new government implemented an effective and very big program to close a budget deficit of roughly 12 of GDP.

Due to the huge US budget deficit, the supply of American government bonds will increase astronomically in the years ahead.

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

There is both a knowledge deficit and an understanding deficit.

Unfortunately, government borrowing to finance its deficit over the rest of this decade is projected to absorb about 5 of GDP.

Once again, we would see what might appear, from looking at the government deficit, to be an austerity to prosperity scenario.

But if we turn to America s government, we see an enormous pretense that the current budget deficit is not a problem.

When weak aggregate demand causes the economy to operate far below its potential, cuts in government spending enlarge the jobs deficit.

So, the government reform momentum in the next decade is also expected to come from the bursting of the budget deficit.

The annual capital inflow is equal each year to the US current account deficit the sum of the trade deficit plus the net interest and dividends that America s government and businesses owe to the rest of the world.

Indeed, despite the large government deficit and the enormous government debt now close to 200 of GDP the interest rate on 10 year Japanese government bonds is just 1 , the lowest such rate in the world.

They also believe that the government deficit drives up inflation and interest rates, thereby crowding out other spending by consumers and firms.

Additional deficit spending

Europe s Trust Deficit

Europe s Vision Deficit

The Energy Deficit

The Skills Deficit

The post crisis fiscal stimulus packages sent the government budget deficit soaring from what had been a very responsible level in 2007 2008.

Reducing the budget deficit by limiting government spending and combating a culture of tax avoidance will increase total domestic savings available to invest.

If the government tries to cut its deficit, households and firms will have to tighten their purse strings, resulting in less total spending.

A direct effect of the higher interest rate would be to increase the budget deficit and the rate of growth of government debt.

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face. The new Obama administration is proposing spending plans that would create a record US deficit of more than one trillion dollars and this coming on top of the outgoing Bush administration s record deficit.