Italy's public debt, by contrast, is set to stabilise at around 120% of GDP in 2012.
It expects its share to stabilise at around 18.5%, only one percentage point below its figure for this year.
And even if prices do fall in coming weeks they may well stabilise at a higher level than in the 1990s.
Most of the debate has concentrated on their long-term arithmetic: they think that Japan's population is bound to stabilise at some point, perhaps around 2060, and that Japan will therefore be able to ease the demographic transition by spreading the costs over the course of a century or more.
Now tracks one and two of the conference are discussing trying to stabilise emissions at a level projected to have a fair chance of avoiding a 2C (3.6F) temperature rise.
How far is too far remains in dispute, of course, (though better climate models should eventually clear the matter up) but the objective of any policy should be to stabilise CO2 at a particular level rather than make quick cuts willy-nilly.
Merely to stabilise public debt at its current levels will require aggressive fiscal tightening in several countries.
To be fair, Mr Mbeki's attention to detail has helped to stabilise the economy at a time of turbulence in other emerging markets, not least in Africa.
Owners Geoff Moss and Ian Roberts have been locked in talks with appointed administrators O'Hara and Co for weeks in a bid to stabilise the situation at the Racecourse Ground.
On November 10th Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of Barack Obama's deficit commission, proposed sweeping tax reforms and spending overhauls to cut the deficit to 2.2% and stabilise the debt at 69% of GDP by 2015.
So long as exports at least stabilise, domestic demand can sustain growth.
Keeping all things equal, the country would need to grow by 7.7% a year, or nominal bond yields to fall to a Teutonic 0.5% to stabilise government gross debt at its 2011 level of 70% of GDP.
Expressing his sympathy for those killed and forced from their homes by the disaster, he said it was vital to stabilise the nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi as soon as possible and to decontaminate the areas around the nuclear plant.
In principle globalisation can help to stabilise economies if they are at different stages of the cycle, but the very forces of global integration are likely to synchronise economic cycles more closely, so that downturns in different countries are more likely to reinforce one another.
The ambulance service said one of the boys in the back seats suffered serious multiple injuries and had to be anaesthetised at the scene to stabilise his condition.
This suggests that protein engineering might be used to treat, and perhaps even to prevent, amyloid diseases, by allowing the manufacture of drugs that stabilise the relevant parts of the protein at risk.
Sometimes they say they will allow patients through, we stabilise them but by the time they arrive at the border they are sent back to us.
"It is a reflection of this global recovery broadening out, starting to stabilise, " said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management.
Analysts say that Pakistan's co-operation is crucial as Nato tries to stabilise Afghanistan before most foreign combat troops leave the country at the end of 2014.
As firefighters worked to free those stuck, rescuers from at least eight different agencies were on the scene to help stabilise and transport the wounded, the Los Angeles Times reported.
At present this is being used to house equipment used to make concrete foam to stabilise the nearby Coombe Down mines.
"We're showing excellent growth and financial performance at the moment, but we'll need the county on board now in order to stabilise after the funding from Arts Council disappears, " he said.
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