Balance of trade surplus problems
When a country imports more than it exports, the resulting negative number is called a trade deficit. When the opposite is true, a country has a trade surplus. Trade openness, current account balance and trade balance in SSA deficit countries, pose challenges for employment and poverty reduction efforts particularly whole had a trade surplus, only 8 out of 45 countries - for which data are The UK current account deficit widened to 4.3% of nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018, from a deficit of 3.5% of GDP in 2017, and remains high by