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Deficit

Deficit | Deficits

Deficit meaning

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. | A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.

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Hyderabad: Coastal Andhra Pradesh has received 22 per cent deficit rainfall while Rayalaseema region is 23 per cent deficit in Rainfall this monsoon since June 1. Telangana records 38 per cent deficit in rainfall.

Full cost accounting, triple bottom line, measuring well-being and other proposals for accounting reform often include suggestions to measure an "ecological deficit" or "natural deficit" alongside a social and financial deficit.

But the budget’s September deficit forecast of $6.7 billion has improved by $1.1 billion, with this year’s deficit now projected at $5.6 billion.

CSU reported a $28.2 million deficit, or required institutional support, compared to University of Colorado Boulder’s $13 million deficit.

She said the country had the “largest trade deficit of $49 billion and current account deficit of $17.5 billion”.

The Silver Institute predicts a deficit of 142.1 million ounces of silver in 2023, the second-largest deficit in more than two decades.

It was explained that while the capital account deficit is due to the acceleration of development projects, the current account deficit is attributed to transfer payments and employment costs.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust had been facing an £8.8million deficit this year, but has reduced that deficit to £800,000.

The higher the deficit, the riskier it becomes to hold US debt, which tends to grow when the deficit does.

The result is a widening fiscal deficit, estimated at 16 percent of the country’s non-oil GDP, overall, and with a primary deficit of 28 percent.

Third, it is good to mention that the EU Commission can initiate the excessive deficit procedure for countries where the general fiscal deficit exceeds three percent of GDP.

With respect to the deficit, we’re concerned about the deficit.

A board meeting this week was told the board recorded a $2.2million deficit in September, having budgeted for a $1.1million deficit.

After a person at the town hall asked Trump about dealing with the deficit, the president suggested that the deficit might not be as much of a problem once his newly minted trade deals kick in.

Deficit of merchandise trade slightly exceeded $3 billion (in January-November 2018 Belarus had a deficit of $2 billion).

During the reference period, the overall balance of payments recorded a deficit of 439.0 million US dollars compared with a deficit of 34.5 million US dollars on account of a relatively low official flows.

Even without RCEP, India’s merchandise trade deficit with China stood at $53.6 billion in FY19, or nearly a third of its total deficit.

For the last election year in 2016, Ghana’s budget deficit target was 5.3 percent but the deficit widened to 7.8 percent.

He pointed out that trans-basin transfer of water can only be allowed from a surplus basis to a deficit basis, and, as of today, Punjab is a deficit state and could not therefore be asked to transfer water to Haryana.

Jadaan has said the deficit could widen to up to 9 percent of GDP this year, but some analysts have predicted a deficit of 22 percent with oil prices at $30 a barrel.