It assumes that Greece could sustain a brutal reduction in its primary budget deficit (ie, excluding interest costs) of 12 percentage points.

这个分析假定希腊能够经受将基本预算赤字(包括利息成本)大幅削减12%。

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The primary budget balance (ie, excluding interest payments) was in surplus in the run-up to membership but has been in deficit since 2003.

在加入欧元区前夕，希基本预算平衡(即不包括利息支出的预算)尚有盈余，但2003年以来一直处于赤字状态。

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At that point, claim the EU's and IMF's economists, Greece will have returned to growth and reached a primary budget surplus (ie, it will raise more revenue than it spends, before interest).

到那时，希腊将恢复经济增长，实现基本的财政盈余(比如，它的税收所得将比开支多，息前)，欧盟和国际货币基金组织的经济学家断言。

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Mr Cardoso's government raised taxes repeatedly to achieve ever larger primary surpluses (ie, surpluses before interest payments).

ECONOMIST: Lula's balancing act

Italy's is very high, at 120% of GDP, but it runs a primary surplus (ie, excluding interest payments).

ECONOMIST: The euro crisis, part 394

IMF, in an extraordinary fit of kindness, has accepted Argentina's commitment to a 3% primary surplus (ie, before interest payments) for 2004.

ECONOMIST: Argentina