Vocabulaire Anglais

La dette

Un accord Agreement, deal

Accords de compensation Countertrade agreements, barter deals

Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le

commerce

GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and

Trade)

Accorder To grant (aid, subsidies), to earmark1 (aid for

a special purpose)

Aide (économique, financière, matérielle) Aid, assistance, handout

Aider quelqu’un To aid, to assist, to help out

alléger To ease, to lighten

Devoir de l’argent (à qqn) To owe (s.o) money

Auto-suffisance Self-sufficiency, self-sustenance

Balance commerciale Balance of trade, trade balance

Déficit / excédent de la balance des paiements Balance of payments deficit / surplus

Dresser des barrières douanières / barrières

tarifaires

To erect, to put up customs barriers / tariff

barriers

Bénéficier (de qqch) To benefit (from sth)

Cible, objectif Aim, objective, target

Etre en état de cessation de paiement, ne pas

honorer une dette, ses échéances

To default (on payment), to be insolvent

(se) conformer (à) To abide (by), to comply (with)

contingenter To impose quotas

Contracter une dette To contract a debt, to incur a debt

Contracter un prêt To raise a loan

Allègement de la dette Debt relief2 (pronounce /det/)

Créancier Creditor

Débiteur Debtor

Date butoir, date limite Deadline, final date, target date (US)

Combler un écart To bridge a gap

Déficitaire In deficit

Déficit commercial Trade deficit, trade gap

Déséquilibre commercial Trade imbalance

Dette extérieure Foreign debt

Criblé de dettes Debt-ridden3

En voie de développement Developing, emerging4

Directives, principes directeurs guidelines

Elaborer (un projet) To draw up (a plan), to draft (a plan)

Emprunter To borrow (money from)

Endetter (s’) To go into debt, to run into debt

Exportation / exporter Export / to export

Gaspiller To waste

1 Sweden to earmark development aid to climate change programmes.

2 The World Bank Group provides debt relief to the poorest countries through the Heavily

Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).

3 Tougher bankruptcy rules await debt-ridden consumers.

4 It has been slower to transform life in the rural areas of developing countries.

Importation Import

Metre en oeuvre To implement

Ordonner, prescrire (enquête, étude, rapport) To commission (an investigation, a survey, a

report)

Organisation humanitaire Charity, NGO5 (Non Governmental

Organization)

Une part A share6

Politique (action, stratégie) Policy7

Prêt Bank loan, loan

Réduire (dépenses, subventions) To reduce, to cut back on (spending,

subsidies)

Rembourser To pay off, to repay, to redeem

Etre surendetté To be overindebted8, to be overburdened with

debt

La monnaie

Billet de banque Bill, banknote

Faux billets Counterfeit notes9, forged notes, fake notes

Billet de trésorerie Commercial paper (CP)10

Blanchiment d’argent Money-laundering

Carte bancaire, carte

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