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en pourcentage du PIB

English translation: as a percentage of GDP


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French term or phrase:en pourcentage du PIB
English translation:as a percentage of GDP
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08:49 Mar 7, 2011
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Bus/Financial - Economics
French term or phrase: en pourcentage du PIB
Si le taux de croissance du PIB est supérieur au taux d’intérêt (g > r), le pays peut stabiliser sa dette en pourcentage du PIB tout en ayant un déficit primaire.

Is this simply: a country can stabilize its debt as a percentage of the GDP?
veratek
France
Local time: 02:35
as a percentage of GDP
Explanation:
Yes, why not? Is there something specific that makes you doubt?

It seems to me to mean that the debt can be stabilized, not at a set sum, but as a percentage of GDP (which of course varies).

So they're saying not "$ XX bn" but "X % of GDP"
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Tony M
France
Local time: 02:35
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Thank you!
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4 +7as a percentage of GDP
Tony M
4in relation to the GDPcc in nyc


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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
as a percentage of GDP


Explanation:
Yes, why not? Is there something specific that makes you doubt?

It seems to me to mean that the debt can be stabilized, not at a set sum, but as a percentage of GDP (which of course varies).

So they're saying not "$ XX bn" but "X % of GDP"

Tony M
France
Local time: 02:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19
Grading comment
Thank you!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Just wanted to make sure other people would read it the same way and that's what it was. No, I don't have any major reason to think it would be something else. Thanks.


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agree  Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz: Perfect.
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agree  William A McNab: wouldn't have it any other way "... all the while running a primary deficit"
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agree  EJP
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agree  Wendy Streitparth: Exactly
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agree  Chantal Tougas
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agree  ACOZ
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
in relation to the GDP


Explanation:
IMO, the meaning is that the country can stabilize its debt in relation to GDP. I don't think the phrase is just about expressing debt as a percentage rather than as a dollar quantity, but rather – IMO – it is also about maintaining a degree of equilibrium between debt and the GDP – for instance, from year to year.

cc in nyc
Local time: 20:35
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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