deflationary gap

基本解释

Moreover, the OECD forecasts a significant output gap - and so persistent deflationary pressure - at least until 2005.
更有甚者，根據OECD的預報，顯著的産出缺口，以及由此形成的持續的通縮壓力，將至少持續到2005年。
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However, that still left a deflationary gap of over 5% of GDP, which threw the Irish economy into the deflationary spiral.
然而，這樣算來，還賸下超過GDP 5%的通縮差，這把愛爾蘭經濟扔進了通縮的風口浪尖。
The recent fiscal consolidation measures made the matter far worse by widening an already formidable deflationary gap even wider.
近期的財政鞏固措施進一步擴大了本就已經相儅棘手的通縮差，讓問題雪上加霜。

Martin Barnes of Bank Credit Analyst, a research firm, points out that the direction of official policy (low rates, quantitative easing, big deficits) looks inflationary but the economic fundamentals (a big output gap, sluggish credit growth) look deflationary.
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a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment