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financing gap

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noun

  1. the difference between a country's requirements for foreign exchange to finance its debts and imports and its income from overseas

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Warshawsky’s analysis finds that a $2 million threshold would reduce program costs by about 13.6%, while a gradual phase-out would save 11.8%, neither of which would fully close the projected financing gap.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

That would leave a roughly $1.5 trillion financing gap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Early this year, it predicted an annual financing gap of $105 million, or 0.5% of the country's GDP.

From Reuters ● Jun. 15, 2023

Egypt has a financing gap of up to $40 billion just this coming year, according to Timothy E. Kaldas, an expert in Egypt’s political economy at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Some new and existing investors are stepping into bridge the financing gap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2020

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