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DEBT BURDEN [12 records]

Record 1 2017-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
CONT

This means tackling the high debt burden, which is now absorbing more than a third of federal revenues, has robbed the government of fiscal flexibility, and has left the fiscal situation extremely vulnerable to economic slowdowns and increases in interest rates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
CONT

Cela signifie qu'ils doivent s'attaquer au lourd endettement de l'État, qui absorbe maintenant plus du tiers des recettes fédérales, prive le gouvernement de sa marge de manœuvre financière et rend la situation financière extrêmement vulnérable aux ralentissements de l'économie et aux variations des taux d'intérêt.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
CONT

Reducing Canada's debt burden is also a question of intergenerational fairness—it would simply not be fair to saddle our children and grandchildren with inevitable tax hikes to pay for the expenses we could not settle ourselves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
CONT

La réduction du fardeau de la dette du Canada est aussi une question d’équité intergénérationnelle – il ne serait simplement pas juste d’encombrer nos enfants et nos petits-enfants de hausses fiscales inévitables pour payer les dépenses que nous pourrions rembourser nous-mêmes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Public Sector Budgeting
  • National and International Economics
CONT

Canada's total government net debt burden is the lowest of any Group of Seven(G-7) country and among the lowest of the advanced G-20 countries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
  • Économie nationale et internationale
CONT

Le fardeau de la dette nette de l'ensemble des administrations publiques canadiennes est le plus faible de tous les pays du Groupe des Sept (G-7) et l'un des plus faibles des économies avancées du Groupe des Vingt (G-20).

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Public Sector Budgeting
  • National and International Economics
CONT

... sound public finances presuppose debt burden reduction. The government is maintaining its reduction objectives with respect to the gross debt and the debt representing accumulated deficits by 2025-2026, in order to ensure economic growth and deliver quality services to Quebecers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
  • Économie nationale et internationale
CONT

[...] des finances publiques saines supposent une réduction du fardeau de la dette. Le gouvernement maintient ses objectifs de réduction de la dette brute et de la dette représentant les déficits cumulés d’ici 2025-2026, afin d’assurer la croissance économique et d’offrir aux Québécois des services publics de qualité.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Accounting
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Loans
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

The payment of the interest on a debt and of such installments of the principal as are legally due. Normally, the term is used in connection with a public debt.

CONT

debt service burden, debt service reduction, debt service suspended, to lighten debt servicing.

OBS

Debt service : Officially approved by the Management Committee for the BCF (budgetary, accounting and financial) Glossary. Use of this term is mandatory in Canadian government texts.

PHR

debt servicing obligations.

PHR

to service a debt.

Key term(s)
  • servicing of debt
  • public debt service
  • service of the public debt
  • servicing of government debt

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité publique
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Ensemble des sommes qu'une entreprise ou un organisme public est tenu de verser au cours d'un exercice au titre des capitaux empruntés et comprenant à la fois les intérêts et les remboursements de principal.

CONT

fardeau du service de la dette, réduction du service de la dette, service de la dette suspendu, alléger le service de la dette.

OBS

Service de la dette : terme uniformisé par le Comité de gestion du Lexique BCF (budgétaire, comptable et financier) et d'usage obligatoire dans la Fonction publique fédérale.

PHR

obligations liées au service de la dette.

PHR

assurer le service de la dette.

Key term(s)
  • service de la dette publique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad pública
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Préstamos
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Pago hecho por un prestatario a un prestamista. Puede incluir uno o todos los siguientes: 1) pago de intereses; 2) reembolso del principal; y 3) comisión por compromiso.

CONT

carga del servicio de la deuda, reducción del servicio de la deuda, servicio de la deuda suspendido, aliviar el servicio de la deuda.

PHR

obligaciones relativas al servicio de la deuda.

PHR

atender el servicio de la deuda.

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Record 6 2000-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • National and International Economics
CONT

Wharton is a powerful symbol of where our country went wrong in the 1980s. It was here at Wharton that Michael Milken got the idea to use junk bonds to leverage corporate buyouts--a quick-buck scheme that was supposed to shake up failed management but too often forced corporations to lay off workers in formerly profitable plants, reduce R&D, and ultimately to go bankrupt or sell out again under the crushing burden of unserviceable debt.

CONT

Even the stronger enterprises were not immune from the problem of unserviceable debt as the state had in the past arbitrarily absorbed their profits and forced them to build up a large stock of debt.

CONT

Total Third World debt is in the hundreds of billions, piled up under the auspices of the World Bank and sister agencies when they were attempting to impose their brand of global statism on any country desperate or corrupt enough to accept the money. The majority of these loans are unlikely to be repaid, especially those to the poorest nations. This creates a problem for the people who run the World Bank, a band of bureaucrats who for years claimed that their lending practices were sound and that their loan default rates were low. What the loans did, aside from provide tax-free employment opportunities for thousands of World Bank credit officers, was create scores of nations with large, unserviceable debt burdens.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Économie nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
OBS

In the February 1991 budget, the government announced the Plan for Economic Recovery, designed to reduce inflation pressures, interest rates and the burden of public debt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques

Spanish

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Record 8 1996-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Phraseology
  • Government Accounting
CONT

The goal of this budget is to free the economy for more job creating growth by steadily reducing the burden of deficits and debt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Phraséologie
  • Comptabilité publique
CONT

L'objectif de ce budget est de libérer l'économie pour qu'elle puisse croître et créer davantage d'emplois, en réduisant progressivement le fardeau lié aux déficits et à la dette.

Spanish

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Record 9 1994-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
  • Translation (General)
CONT

There is no question that the cost of government must be reduced to prevent destructive debt increases and to ease the burden of taxation. The 1994 budget takes action to bring down the cost of federal operations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Il ne fait aucun doute que les dépenses publiques doivent être réduites afin d'éviter une hausse destructive de la dette publique et d'alléger le fardeau fiscal. Le budget de 1994 comporte des mesures visant à réduire le coût des activités fédérales.

Spanish

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Record 10 1981-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
OBS

On the other hand, incurring debt when there is no other feasible way to move the C+I+G equilibrium intersection up toward full employment actually represents a negative burden on the immediate future to the degree that it induces more current capital formation than would otherwise take place.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 11 1981-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
OBS

(...) Any public debt that is externally held does involve a current burden on the citizens at home, since in the end they have to send goods abroad corresponding to the interest payments and debt service.(Of course, if the original borrowing from abroad resulted in equivalent fruitful capital goods here, their fruits will cover the external-debt service; so the net effect of such external borrowing, taken as a complete package, would be favorable to our economy.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 12 1980-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Production (Economics)
OBS

(...) Capital-bequeathed burden-The principal way one generation puts a burden on itself later or on a later generation is by bequeathing it less real capital than would otherwise have been the case. Any growth of public debt that has this effect(...) most definitely does involve a genuine "burden".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

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