Example sentences of "balance [prep] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN remains on course for its biggest annual balance of payments deficit despite a better-than-expected trading performance last month . |
| 2 | All the above arrangements were made in order that members of the IMF could finance any short-term balance of payments deficit without variations in their exchange rates . |
| 3 | Mocking Mrs Thatcher 's claim that Conservative policies had achieved an economic miracle , Mr Kinnock said after 10 years with oil revenues not enjoyed by any of Britain 's competitors , the country had 2 million unemployed , the highest inflation , highest interest rates and biggest balance of payments deficit of the industrialised countries . |
| 4 | A balance of payments deficit of £1.2bn — bang in line with expectations — failed to dent the progress . |
| 5 | Structural adjustment facility This was established in March 1986 to provide balance of payments assistance to low-income developing countries . |
| 6 | So long therefore as the central country of the Bretton Woods system pursued responsible policies , fiscal deficits in a peripheral country such as the United Kingdom generated balance of payments problems for that country , and any government seriously committed to maintaining a fixed exchange rate on the US dollar found its freedom to run such deficits severely curtailed by the commitment . |
| 7 | Despite a ten-year transition period , both countries suffered balance of payments problems on entering the Community . |
| 8 | On May 14-16 a group of donors led by the World Bank promised assistance to the value of US$508,000,000 for 1990-91 , aimed at reducing balance of payments problems under a special programme of assistance for debt-laden low-income sub-Saharan African states . |
| 9 | In contrast , surplus countries argued that the USA should solve her balance of payments problems by introducing expenditure-reducing policies at home , as had other countries . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom had a serious balance of payments problem in manufactured goods , which was only partly disguised by the revenue beginning to flood in from North Sea oil , which had a limited life . |
| 11 | It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . ' |
| 12 | It was also intended to use industrial policy as a tool to relax the balance of payments constraint on the economy . |
| 13 | Our earlier analysis of balance of payments adjustment under floating exchange rates suggests that correction must come about through foreign exchange depreciation of the deficit country 's currency relative to other countries . |
| 14 | Denis [ Healey ] admitted that it was very unlikely we could close the whole of the balance of payments gap by 1978–79 , even if things went well . |
| 15 | He is reluctant to use the bank 's funds to subsidise the balance of payments deficits of eastern Europe , nor to restructure industrial sectors not yet ready for privatisation , in energy safety and military conversion . |
| 16 | He argued that the system was bound to collapse , either because a liquidity shortage would ensue if the supply of dollars failed to keep pace with the growing world demand , or because the persistent balance of payments deficits of the USA ( which provided dollars to the world ) would reduce confidence in the dollar and so lead to the conversion of official dollar balances into gold . |
| 17 | Callaghan also found the Americans sympathetic ( in contrast to the Europeans ) to Labour 's attempt to ease the 1964 balance of payments crisis with a temporary 15 per cent import surcharge . |
| 18 | The central bank report showed that Nigeria recorded a balance of payments surplus of US$2,100 million in 1990 , the second consecutive year of surplus , with gross domestic product growing by 5.2 per cent , the same rate as in 1989 . |
| 19 | A number of economists have placed some of the blame for poor economic performance on a failure to modernize ( there has been a tendency to retain old plants and to support traditional but declining industries , such as textiles ) ; on the emphasis given to maintaining a balance of payments surplus in order to fund overseas military spending and foreign investments , pursued at the expense of economic growth , and on a failure of postwar economic management to manipulate supply as well as demand . |
| 20 | Balance of payments equilibrium For most countries the achievement of a balance of payments equilibrium is desirable because the authorities can then apply their economic policies solely for domestic purposes . |