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holgura

English translation: sound/solid

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Spanish term or phrase:holgura
English translation:sound/solid
Entered by: Wilsonn Perez Reyes

01:26 Jun 23, 2014
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: holgura
En contraste, la holgura existente en la economía, y una inflación baja con expectativas bien ancladas, han permitido a algunos países de Europa Emergente y Latinoamérica mantener sin cambio su postura de política monetaria.
lopatita
sound/solid
Explanation:
...a sound/solid economic position/footing.
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Wilsonn Perez Reyes
El Salvador
Local time: 23:56
Grading comment
thx
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1...with a currently robust economy
Meridy Lippoldt
4sound/solid
Wilsonn Perez Reyes
3 +1Economic well being
Christine Walsh
4boom
Phoenix III
4[generally] satisfactory level of wellbeing
nweatherdon
4(economic) affluence
Jenni Lukac (X)


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sound/solid


Explanation:
...a sound/solid economic position/footing.

Wilsonn Perez Reyes
El Salvador
Local time: 23:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 40
Grading comment
thx
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Economic well being


Explanation:
A possibility

Christine Walsh
Local time: 02:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 11

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Billh: https://es.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200909011912...
8 hrs
  -> Thanks, Billh.
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
boom


Explanation:
As in: The current economic boom along with low interest rates. .. etc.

Phoenix III
United States
Local time: 01:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Virginia Koolhaas
8 hrs
  -> Thanks!
disagree  nweatherdon: which "boom" was that?
5 days
  -> No further explanation needed. Just read on and thanks for taking the time to disagree with the very popular expression "economic boom". :0)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
[generally] satisfactory level of wellbeing


Explanation:
Many people would disagree. There are still many vulnerable and poor populations in Latin America.

However, from the perspective of a macroeconomist, labour markets are well functioning, things are not getting obviously worse for any major groups etc. ... together with macro stability(low inflation fills in enough on this bit), there is no argument for significant change in monetary policy.

Here, I rely on http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/holgura and use entry 4) Bienestar, desahogo, posesión de condiciones suficientes para vivir bien:

... and then determine that in this context that "satisfactory level of wellbeing" is roughly similar to holgura.

This is similar to another proposed answer, but I think it is necessary to have some indication that this is specifically an acceptable level of wellbeing being referred it.

nweatherdon
Canada
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(economic) affluence


Explanation:
What seems normal to me in the context.books.google.es/books?isbn=0749414197 -
Leslie Bash, ‎Andy Green - 1995 - ‎Education
The postwar decades in Western Europe brought not only a period of economic affluence (though not for all countries to similar extents and at the same time), ...blogs.lse.ac.uk/.../young-people-are-less-engaged-in...
17/5/2014 - ... renewed urgency in the run-up to May's local and European elections. ... or lesser extent – experienced a period of economic affluence and ...

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 07:56
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 36

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  nweatherdon: I think it's somewhere between what she said and what I said. So I would 0.5 points agree if I could :)
5 days
  -> I'm actually thinking that prosperity might work here.
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
...with a currently robust economy


Explanation:
holgura conveys the sense of better than normal...hence my answer

Meridy Lippoldt
United States
Local time: 01:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 45

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  nweatherdon: I think a) it's a better description of reality and b) think it is sufficiently close to the meaning. But I would leave if for the native (or close) Spanish speakers to comment on how this fits with their feeling of "holgura"
5 days
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