Sentence examples for a primary surplus from inspiring English sources

Germany, for instance, entered the crisis with a primary surplus.

"Greece, which has a primary surplus of 0.7%, does not need extra measures.

Central to that argument is Greece's ability to achieve a primary surplus of 3.5% by 2018.

A primary surplus refers to a government's income exceeding its spending, excluding debt interest payments.

"No economy in Greece's situation sustainably produces a primary surplus of 3.5percentnt".

But now that Greece has a primary surplus, it's no longer so.

Last year, the government beat the target, with a primary surplus of 4.6%.

Greece posted a primary surplus — a budget surplus not counting debt financing — for the first six months of this year.

The two sides agreed that Greece should be required to run a primary surplus of 3.5% of GDP until 2018, but later targets were left open-ended.

Most promising, Russia's budget now runs a primary surplus -- that is, it has money left after domestic spending to pay some of its foreign debt.

New figures from Greece's finance ministry show the country on course to produce a primary surplus for 2012, its first since 2002.