On its definition of deficit-cutting, the fund finds that fiscal contraction tends to reduce GDP and increase unemployment.
Q: Under your definition of structural deficit, are you saying there has no increase?
This is the definition of a deficit, and it illustrates why the government needs to borrow money almost every day to pay its bills.
Even with the clear description of the definition of the deficit, fewer than one in five correctly answered that it has shrunk under Obama.
In this review the strict definition of base deficit (BD) – namely, a negative base excess – is used [ 29, 49, 50], with a decrease in base excess with increasing metabolic decompensation implying progressively negative values (e.g. -6 mmol/l to -10 mmol/l).
And if economists were evaluating the government finances of some other country, they would hardly accept its legislature's definition of budget deficits or surpluses in performing their analyses.
Doctors using broader definitions of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, risk prescribing "unnecessary and possibly harmful treatment" to their patients, experts have warned.
Second, given that DS also represents a subgroup of patients with enduring negative symptoms, we wanted to contrast the PNS definitions with the proxy definition for deficit syndrome in a FEP cohort.
The MPs, when they cross-examined Green, should have pressed him harder on his definition of "sorting" the deficit.
Mr. Sharp said it's simpler than that: "The definition of a structural deficit is, 'I ain't got enough money to spend.' ".
