Sentence examples for a large fiscal surplus from inspiring English sources

The Liberals, whom he ousted a year ago, bequeathed a robust economy and a large fiscal surplus.

The federal government has a large fiscal surplus.

These will not be easy: even with a write-down of around 70% of the debt's face value, Argentina might require a larger fiscal surplus.

He concludes that the dollar had become a safe haven by March 2000, just about a year after the euro was launched, and at a time when the American government had started to run large fiscal surpluses.

What is needed now is their verbal assent to two main strands of macroeconomic policy: the large fiscal surpluses required to stabilise the public debt, and the inflation-targeting system that gives monetary stability under a floating exchange rate.Some Brazilians might see this as the IMF constraining their democratic choice.

But going soft on inflation might make lenders demand higher returns and, by weakening the currency, would increase the cost of the large chunk of public debt that is tied to the exchange rate.The key economic test for Brazil's next government will be whether it sticks to the large fiscal surpluses (before interest payments) required to service the debt.

The region's current-account surplus actually shrank between 1998 and 2001.Thanks to a large fiscal stimulus and the healthier state of private-sector balance-sheets in most economies, domestic spending (consumption and investment) should revive earlier in emerging Asia than elsewhere, rising by perhaps 7% next year, up from 4-5% this year.

That creates a large fiscal hole.

Far from having a deficit, Ireland has a fiscal surplus of 4.6% of GDP.

At present, this involves a primary fiscal surplus (ie, before interest payments) of 3¾% of GDP next year.

This year it will aim for a primary fiscal surplus (before interest payments) of around 3.3% of GDP, rather than 4%.