Getting rid of that structural deficit will require a painful combination of spending cuts and tax increases.

要消除这种结构性赤字需要忍痛把减少开支和增加税收结合起来。

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Budget deficit is usually divided into cyclical deficit and structural deficit, but this classification is assumed that the irregular component in budget is zero.

财政赤字通常被划分为周期性赤字和结构性赤字，这样的分类方法是以不规则财政收支为零作为前提。

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The IMF reckons that Japan would need to tighten its structural deficit by 13.4% of GDP between now and 2020 in order to bring its debt-to-GDP ratio down to 80% by 2030.

国际货币基金(IMF)推算日本如果要在2030年之前把债务占GDP比降到80%，就必须从现在到2020年之间将其结构性的赤字降低GDP的13.4%。

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We have a structural deficit that is real and growing, apart from the financial crisis.

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The structural deficit is most likely the most critical economic issue of our time.

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That implies the government is slightly ahead of its plan to cut the structural deficit.

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