1.   If in addition to a negative there arises a negative then an overall income deficit exists.

2.   However there may be dividends in production and consumption measured by, which, if positive, help to reduce the overall size of the income deficit.

3.   Also expected to feed into widening current account deficits is a widening net income deficit -- the amount Australia pays to service its debt.

4.   He said the impact of higher world interest rates on the net income deficit also will feed into wider deficits.

5.   Helping push the current account deficit out is the net income deficit -- the amount Australia pays each month to service its overseas debt.

6.   Lower interest rates in the U.S. and through Europe likely will ensure the net income deficit is contained, analysts said.

7.   That went against expectations that better estimates of the net income deficit --the amount Australia pays to service its debt -- might force the deficit higher.

8.   The large foreign debt also puts the spotlight on the net income deficit, the amount Australia pays to service debt.

9.   The net income deficit -- the amount Australia pays to service its debt -- also helped.

10.   The net income deficit -- the amount Australia pays to service its debt -- also helped, narrowing to the lowest in a year.