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Explain why the Greek government’s budget deficit might be in a large deficit

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The Greek government said Eurostat had revised up the 2009 deficit figure for three main reasons; a downward revision of the country's economic growth rate that year, an adjustment of social security funds, and by adding data from certain public sector bodies into the general government figures.
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