financing gap
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1. Finance
difference between money available and money needed a shortfall between the funds available and the funds needed for a project. For example, a company planning expansion is able to finance some of this activity from internally generated cash and some from existing finance agreements but any shortfall requires the raising of new funds.
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2. Economics
funding shortfall from canceling poorer countries' debts a gap in funding for institutions such as the International Monetary Fund caused by canceling the debts of poorer countries such as those in West Africa

