Fiscal gap/Definition

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Fiscal gap [r]: the size of the increase in revenues or decease in outlays, expressed as a percent of GDP, that would be necessary to keep the national debt at or below its current share of GDP. (Alternatively, the national debt plus the present value of the cumulative excess of future expenditure over future revenues.)