To be sure, some progress is being made toward bringing longer-term considerations into annual budget rules. Bodies like the European Commission increasingly distinguish between the structural and cyclical components of a budget deficit, and thus consider potential output, which increases with investment, in their calculations.
平心而论，在将长期考虑引入年度预算规则方面正在取得一些进展。欧盟委员会等机构开始日益区分预算赤字的结构性和周期性成分，从而在计算中考虑了随投资增长而增长的潜在产出。但这只是朝向正确方向的一小步。