Debt service on past loans eats up half of the government budget, despite the 1998 default.
The government budget, despite progress, consumes the equivalent of 55% of the gross domestic product.
The government budget is running a small surplus, more money in than going out.
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There has been discussion in the government budget negotiations of eliminating tax exempt bonds.
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Ireland and Spain don't have the government budget that Germany does to help maintain wages and maintain employment.
The criticism contributed to a sharp drop in foreign aid, which accounted for 70% of the government budget.
Such aid would come under less-onerous conditions than a conventional bailout, which would focus on the government budget.
The film, set in 1981, even features a contemporary clip of Ronald Reagan promising to reduce the government budget deficit.
But if the numbers are right, Russia is heading towards a twin deficit economy, where the government budget and external trade balance are negative.
His biggest claim to fame was the so-called Ryan Budget, which sought to slash the government budget by trillions of dollars and cap tax rates.
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Subsidies, by some accounts, eat up 40% of the government budget.
Hence, as the economy grows, so the government budget tends toward balance (as it did at the end of our longest peacetime expansion in the 1990s).
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The Congressional GOP would also like to see the cuts to the government budget remain significant however they do not like where some of the cuts being made, most particularly, the cuts to the defense budget.
In short, the fiscal cliff means an automatic end to the tax cuts put in place under George W., and automatic across-the-board cuts to the government budget, as promised in the August 2011 debt ceiling compromise.
That means they cannot borrow any more money for a minimum of a few years (Argentina seemed to be able to come back fairly quickly after default), but it would go a long way toward balancing the government budget.
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Some of their oft-maligned reforms have come to fruition, ironically, under Mr Putin: helped by high oil prices, the economy is growing around 7% a year, the government budget is in surplus, inflation has been tamed and debt paid off.
Christian Noyer, the vice president of the European Central Bank, as well as figures from the mighty German Bundesbank, don't want any countries to use the euro until they have painfully satisfied all the Maastricht Treaty conditions, like balancing the government budget, or at least coming reasonably close.
There's the direct attention on the overstretched government budget and measures to enhance the capacity of the economy to grow in the long term.
The Scottish government budget is currently funded by the UK Treasury and many financial powers are reserved, leading some to argue that Scotland is not properly accountable for the money it spends.
China controls our economy because we owe them so much money: It must be made clear that US debt to China has nothing to do with the federal government budget deficit and everything to do with the trade deficit.
Also looming is the need to pass legislation financing the government through the budget year ending Sept. 30.
Measures to make it easier for firms in England to convert commercial property into private dwellings are to be announced by the government in the Budget, the BBC has learned.
The economy will emerge from its troubles only when the government contains the budget deficit, says Cho Soon, a former governor of the central bank and now an opposition politician.
To take a topical example of cause and effect, we might observe the government announcing budget cuts, and we might also observe the economy slowing down.
In May the government set up the Office for Budget Responsibility, to provide the government with independent forecasts of UK economic growth and public deficits.
This week, he brought Mr Baroin into the government as budget minister, replacing Eric Woerth, who takes Mr Darcos's place at the labour ministry and is thus in charge of the sensitive pension-reform issue.
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If you're the Welsh Government you blame the UK Government for slashing your budget in the first place.
Much of the month of September will be given to the 2009 budget process (the government generally proposes a new budget on September 1st).
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The Treasury uses the contested Barnett formula to work out the size of the Welsh government's budget, but the Welsh government says it is shortchanged by the formula.
Gladstone knew the national government budget better than anyone else, and in 1861 he began his great tax-cutting campaign.
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