If reimbursement rates fall, that ratio is likely to get worse.

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The IMF has insisted that Greece's debt to GDP ratio must fall to 120% of GDP by 2020.

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The Nikkei 225 price-to-earnings ratio now stands at about 18.7 times, higher than about 16 times in the U.S. and 12 times in Europe, but analysts say that ratio will fall to around 16 times if earnings figures come in line with forecasts.

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While the unemployment rate remains steady at 9.5%, the employment-population ratio continues to fall each month.

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Grow the GDP part and the debt to GDP ratio will naturally fall.

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That ratio is set to fall drastically in the future, dropping to only 2.1 workers per Medicare beneficiary by 2086.

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According to his estimates, immigration would by itself account for a fall of two percentage points in the ratio of unskilled to skilled wages in America between 1973 and 1993.

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Their other target - a fall in the debt-to-GDP ratio - limits their ability to spend more on capital projects unless the Treasury is prepared to argue that it can stimulate growth in the future by spending more now.

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The aggregate tier one common capital ratio - assets held in reserve as a buffer against financial troubles - would fall from an actual 11.1% in the third quarter of 2012 to 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2014 in the hypothetical stress scenario.

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To bring the ratio of prices to rents back to equilibrium, either rents must rise sharply or prices must fall.

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