Sentence examples for equivalent to deficit from inspiring English sources

"What we're doing with groundwater is an equivalent to deficit spending," said Lester Snow, director of the nonprofit group California Water Foundation and a former state secretary for natural resources.

In the current account balance (ROWCLOS) - the foreign saving (which is equivalent to trade deficit) is exogenous in foreign currency and an endogenously determined exchange rate clears the foreign exchange market.

America's Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, had once hoped this guideline could be very simple: current-account deficits or surpluses (which are roughly equivalent to trade deficits or surpluses) should not exceed 4% of GDP.

The mean FI score was 0.22 (SD = 0.13), equivalent to 9 deficits.

Last year, America spent 1.65 trillion on chronic (incurable) disease, equivalent to the national deficit ($1.6 trillion) for the year.

Based on the average predicted FEV1 of 1.65 L, these would be equivalent to a growth deficit in post bronchodilator FEV1 of 59 mL from 5 to 11 years of age per unit increase in PM10, and a growth deficit of 20 mL from 5 to 11 years per unit increase in NO2.

Even so, the PPF revealed in July that the total deficit in company pensions under its valuation rules is £134 billion.That estimate is broadly equivalent to the £130 billion deficit that companies are registering under the FRS17 accounting standard, according to new figures this week from the regulator.

Germany, which insisted on including the budget-deficit restrictions in the original agreement, is expected to finish the year with a deficit equivalent to 3.8percentt of its gross domestic product.

Italy is headed for a deficit equivalent to 3.1percentt of its gross domestic product in 2004, the commission said.

It seeks to balance the budget by 2002 after a deficit equivalent to 2.5% of GDP last year.

The regions ended 2011 with an average deficit equivalent to 2.94 percent of G.D.P., compared with a target of 1.3 percent.