Example sentences of "balance [prep] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 A more complex rule , linking monetary policy to last period 's unemployment rate or balance of payments deficit or whatever , may be less easy to understand and more subject to error because of , for example , inaccuracies in the balance of payments figures .
32 The forecast for next year is for a £9.5 billion balance of payments deficit .
33 What is more , 20 million tonnes of imported coal means another £1,000 million added to the balance of payments deficit .
34 In the depths of recession , we are in a balance of payments deficit .
35 We can not expand without making that balance of payments deficit worse .
36 It means , in other words , a tighter balance of payments deficit .
37 While we have separate currencies a poor economic performance will show up as a balance of payments deficit — but with a single currency that warning signal would disappear , and a poor performance would show up by whole regions or countries becoming depressed and blighted areas afflicted with mass unemployment .
38 Throughout its post-war history Yugoslavia has exhibited a strong tendency to serious Balance of Payments deficit .
39 It was subsequently reported that West Germany had agreed to a request by Shevardnadze for a DM 5,000 million government-guaranteed loan to the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank , with which to finance the Soviet balance of payments deficit .
40 The loans constituted the core of an 18-month economic stabilization programme designed to reduce inflation and to ease the balance of payments deficit .
41 There is no knowing either whether the measures to prevent a depression would have worked in the years after the war , because the problems were inflation and a balance of payments deficit , just as the anti-Keynesians at the Treasury had predicted .
42 What the media did not show was the concern of Spanish economists and financiers over rising inflation and a mounting balance of payments deficit ; the widening gap between conditions of life and work in town and country ; emigration on a rapidly growing scale ; or the conflict latent in Spanish universities between a desire for greater intellectual freedom and the constraints of an antiquated , paternalistic education system .
43 In the same report another contributor comments , " For EMU to be sustainable , the economies of countries forming the union must be similarly competitive or else some countries would be faced with the equivalent of a constant balance of payments deficit which , in EMU , would be reflected in terms of stagnation and unemployment . "
44 He said Labour would boost agriculture by encouraging the production of food at home to improve Britain 's balance of payments deficit ; reforming the common agricultural policy , and shifting the emphasis to decision making at national and regional level .
45 A major balance of payments deficit when the economy is in deep recession has not occurred before in this country .
46 A major balance of payments deficit when the economy is in deep recession has not occurred before in this country .
47 But the reason that US business was investing so much in Europe and elsewhere was not that the United States could run a balance of payments deficit financed by borrowing from central banks overseas .
48 Such a position would be quite incomprehensible if the main thrust of US policy was an attempt to run as large as possible a balance of payments deficit ( on current and long-term capital account ) in order to grab real resources from the rest of the world in exchange for paper dollars .
49 Other leakages include : ( a ) the holding of excess reserves by banks — that is holding more than the minimum reserve requirement ; ( b ) an increase in the public 's desired cash holdings ; and ( c ) a net outflow of currency overseas as a result of a balance of payments deficit .
50 A balance of payments deficit involves a net outflow of currency .
51 ‘ To put our industry in context , the balance of payments deficit is running at about £13 billion .
52 The US balance of payments capital account deficit in the early 1960s which was undermining foreign confidence in the dollar , encouraged the US authorities to restrict overseas lending by resident US banks and the domestic financing of direct investment ( multinational plants ) abroad .
53 As a result of the limited increase in exports most governments will continue to experience serious balance of payments difficulties , although in some countries sometimes offset by earnings from minerals such as oil and diamonds .
54 For similar reasons , not much weight can be given to the argument that balance of payments difficulties arose from persistent excess absorption ( i.e. too high a level of demand ) in the economy [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] .
55 The UK floated sterling in June 1972 , largely because of her own balance of payments difficulties , and most other major economies had followed suit by March 1973 .
56 Continuous adjustment If a country is suffering balance of payments difficulties because of a long-run decline in its competitive position , then a floating exchange rate allows a gradual depreciation of the home currency to come about , thus providing a continuous stimulus to exports and a continuous discourage-ment to imports .
57 Lost remittances 400 Undisbursed Kuwaiti development aid 397 Lost Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil supplies 259 Lost budget and project support from Iraq 145 Lost exports to Iraq and Kuwait 157 Lost budget and project support from Kuwait 28 Indirect costs ( i.e. balance of payments difficulties , rising unemployment ) 300 Total 1,686
58 This decline was often caused by US balance of payments difficulties or the mechanics of US budgetary management .
59 Balance of payments difficulties followed in Italy in 1963 , France in 1964–5 and Germany in 965–6 .
60 We now start our study of the economy as a whole and in the remainder of the book we consider many of the world 's most pressing macroeconomic problems — problems like persistent unemployment , rapid inflation , balance of payments difficulties , economic stagnation and unequal distributions of income and wealth .
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