Debt owed by a central government.
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Examples for "public debt "
Examples for "public debt "
1 U.S. and European officials agree their current public debt levels are unsustainable.
2 Without faster growth, Italy won't be able reduce its huge public debt .
3 The company also noted it had no public debt maturing until 2013.
4 Irish public debt rose and the country faced austerity, privatisation and liberalisation.
5 Meanwhile Japan's public debt position worsens, raising the stakes of the gamble.
1 He insisted that efforts must continue to reduce the national debt burden.
2 NZ Increased taxes and national debt to pay for the war effort.
3 These developments will push up the cost of servicing the national debt .
4 Unemployment and emigration rose as growth contracted and the national debt soared.
5 Australia is willing to help Papua New Guinea refinance its national debt .
1 The other key risk especially in Europe is the sovereign debt crisis.
2 They are able to solve the sovereign debt crisis, Mr Zhou said.
3 Business from Europe has been dampened by sovereign debt crises, he said.
4 There is not any clear way out of the sovereign debt crisis.
5 But business in Spain has suffered due to Europe's sovereign debt crisis.
1 Zhou added that China's central government debt - to - GDP ratio is not very high.
2 That is roughly 5-6 percent of Spain's outstanding central government debt .
3 Some provinces are already over-indebted but some still have room. Zhou added that China's central government debt - to - GDP ratio is not very high.
4 China's central government debt is around 15 percent of GDP, and its fiscal deficit below 2 percent.
5 Central government debt is seen falling below 30 percent of GDP at the end of 2009.
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Translations for central government debt