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By reducing
primary
expenses, then reducing taxes.
This situation supposedly changed a bit in 2014, the first year that the country made a small contribution to its interest bill, having run a
primary
surplus of barely 0.8% of GDP (or 0.5% of its debt of 170% of GDP).
Currently, around 80% of worldwide
primary
energy comes from fossil fuels, the combustion of which emits around 34 billion tons of carbon dioxide.
Although some of Bush’s defenders try to credit him with the “Arab Spring” revolutions, the
primary
Arab participants reject such arguments.
And in all but two African countries, girls remain less likely than boys to complete a
primary
education.
For the 61 million children who are out of
primary
school, formal education is beyond reach.
Budgets must be focused on the most excluded children, and
primary
education must be free at the point of use, so that every child can learn.
They created direct
primary
elections, empowering citizens to choose which candidates to nominate, thereby undermining the power of party “machines.”
There are three fundamental factors that determine the evolution of a country’s sovereign debt: its rate of economic growth; its borrowing costs; and its
primary
budget position (the budget balance net of interest payments).
A country with a balanced
primary
budget collects enough revenue to pay its current expenses but not the interest on its outstanding debt.
Higher interest rates, slower growth, and a weaker
primary
budget position all raise the debt-ratio trajectory.
Thus, Italy needs sustained, large
primary
surpluses, much faster growth, and/or far lower interest rates to avoid a debt restructuring.
A credible path to sufficient
primary
surpluses would lower interest rates.
In the long run, if
primary
surpluses are achieved by controlling spending, the increase in national saving will promote investment and growth, whereas higher tax rates would work in the opposite direction.
Substantial
primary
surpluses will be needed for many years in order to stabilize the debt ratio and gradually reduce it to the economic safety zone of less than 60% of GDP (Italy and Greece are over 100%).
If the
primary
surpluses are insufficient, temporary measures will only postpone the inevitable debt debacle.
Stocks-to-use ratios are a
primary
driver of commodity prices, because they give us an indication of the cushion that we have for shortfalls somewhere in the world.
Put simply, the G-20 is failing in its
primary
and original purpose of enhancing global financial and monetary stability.
In my own experience, I have seen how Rwanda made investing in social progress – including gender equity, a 61% reduction in child mortality in a single decade, and 95%
primary
school enrollment – integral to its economic development strategy.
More than 91% of children of
primary
school age are now enrolled in school, but progress on educating the remaining 9% has slowed to a near standstill.
Yet in many African countries, 80% of
primary
schools do not have electricity, severely compromising the quality of instruction.
But for Westerners whose
primary
source of income is the sale of their unskilled labor to the marketplace, the era of globalization has coincided with decades of wage stagnation.
But the
primary
causes for domestic economic weakness in Japan, the US, the United Kingdom, and the eurozone are not global in origin.
The second test is whether the
primary
purpose of the proposed military action is to halt or avert the threat in question.
Libya passes, as would most other recent cases: had oil – or regime change – been the
primary
motivation, the Arab League and the Security Council would never have endorsed military intervention.
Russia, by contrast, found it hard to find any takers for its assertion that civilian protection was the
primary
rationale for its South Ossetian adventure in 2008.
The euro is now the
primary
alternative to the dollar.
Weak aggregate demand is the
primary
culprit for subdued GDP and employment growth.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the budget deficit is declining, and the
primary
surplus (net revenues minus interest payments) is growing.
Fisheries remove more than 25% of the
primary
production in upwelling ocean regions and 35% in the temperate continental shelf.
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