1.   Belt-tightening would allow the debt ratio to fall faster or income-tax rates to be cut.

2.   And high they will stay until the debt ratios come down.

3.   Officials also hired a team of accountants to help them with their debt ratios.

4.   Other qualifications for EMU are linked to public debt ratios and inflation.

5.   The debt ratio has therefore risen sharply.

6.   Weymeuller said the company would accelerate investment and sell less assets in the second half, hence a slightly higher debt ratio.

7.   With higher debt ratios borrowers can take on a larger loan and buy more house.

8.   Yet its debt ratio, which measures public debt as a percentage of gross domestic product, is still way too high.

9.   Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis announced a slower reduction in the public debt ratio.