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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.)
the size of the  increase in revenues or decease in outlays, expressed as a percent of GDP, that is required for ''fiscal sustainablity'' (ie: that would be necessary to keep the national debt at or below its current share of GDP).

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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 is required for fiscal sustainablity (ie: that would be necessary to keep the national debt at or below its current share of GDP).