Fuel subsidies account for almost all of Egypt's forecast budget deficit of 135 billion pounds.
It also cut by three-quarters the forecast budget surplus of almost A$22 billion ($15 billion).
Poland's forecast budget deficit of 3% of GDP in 1997 is flattered by the inclusion of privatisation proceeds.
Three years ago, the budget office forecast budget surpluses totaling $5.6 trillion for the 10-year period ending in 2011.
"In recent years, the city benefited from substantial increases in revenue collections, which exceeded amounts originally budgeted, and effectively closed our forecast budget gaps," Mr. Page wrote.
Mr Stournaras had, on the day of my interview with Mr Venizelos, given an interview with Reuters, talking confidently about avoiding the forecast budget gap in 2015 due to improved tourism takings.
In fact, the continent's biggest financial upheaval is in Iceland (see article, article), and the biggest forecast budget deficits in the European Union next year will not be in some basket-cases from the ex-communist "east" but in Britain and in Greece.
And the increase in forecast budget surpluses has anyway shifted the debate away from the old big-government-versus-small-government arguments of the 1980s.In short, Mr Bush is stymied whether he concentrates on attacking Mr Gore's policies or his character.
Obamacare cost to be 20% less than forecast, budget office says.
The bridegroom, 30, is a vice president and a financial controller in Manhattan for Merrill Lynch, where he forecasts budgets and analyzes revenue and profitability.
