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联合国呼吁增加对非洲的经济援助


UNCTD Calls for Doubling of Africa Aid
Michael Drudge
London
12 Sep 2001 19:57 UTC


The United Nations has called for a major 1)infusion of aid money to Africa as part of a global effort to 2)revive the continent's economy.
The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD) warns that poverty will only get worse in sub-Saharan Africa without a major 3)overhaul of international and domestic 1 policies.
The organization issued a report on Tuesday calling for aid to the continent to double. U.N. officials say Africa will need $100 billion over the next 4)decade.
The U.N. report also calls for massive 2 debt relief and fairer trade rules so that African farm 5)commodities can be sold at higher prices to developed countries.
The U.N.'s special trade 6)coordinator for Africa, Kamran Kousari, told reporters in London that African economies urgently need 7)stimulus. "We are not too optimistic about the future if there is not a major shift in policy with regard to Africa, both at the national level and at the international level," he said.
For Mr. Kousari, a top priority 3 must be to relieve Africa of a continent-wide debt burden of $64 billion. "We propose," he said, "that a sort of independent commission 4 of high-level experts be established to look at the sustainability of African debt and for donors 5 and multilateral financial institutions to agree to write off debt that such a commission would consider as unsustainable."
U.N. officials say Africa faces a steep climb toward economic growth, since 8)per capita incomes are 10 percent lower now than they were in 1980.



(1) infusion[In5fju:V(E)n]n.灌输
(2) revive[rI5vaIv]v.(使)苏醒, (使)复兴, (使)复活
(3) overhaul[5EJvEhC:l]v.检查
(4) decade[5dekeId]n.十年, 十
(5) commodity[kE5mRdItI]n.日用品
(6) coordinator[kEJ`R:dIneItE(r)]n.协调者, 同等的人或物
(7) stimulus[5stImjJlEs]n.刺激物, 促进因素, 刺激, 刺激
(8) per capita income n.个人平均所得


 



1 domestic
adj.家里的,国内的,本国的;n.家仆,佣人
  • This is domestic news.这是国内新闻。
  • She does the domestic affairs every day.她每天都忙家务。
2 massive
adj.巨大的,大规模的,大量的,大范围的
  • A massive sea search has failed to find any survivors.经过大规模的海上搜救仍未找到幸存者。
  • He drank a massive amount of alcohol.他喝了大量的烈酒。
3 priority
n.优先处理的事,居先,优先(权)
  • The development of the national economy is a top priority.发展国民经济是应予以最优先考虑的事。
  • Things should be taken up in order of priority.办事应有个先后次序。
4 commission
n.委托,授权,委员会,拥金,回扣,委任状
  • The salesman can get commission on everything he sells.这个售货员能得到所售每件货物的佣金。
  • The commission is made up of five people,including two women.委员会由五人组成,其中包括两名妇女。
5 donors
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
2-CHLOROBENZYLAMINE
abandonate
allowable impact load
amphibianlike
barbey
barbier
benzisoxazoles
better-tasting
BKdusty pink
booking commission
bruderrat
butt joint welder
cardiac ventricle
caribbean subregion
catarrhal dyspepsia
christenly
circular flow of economy
class lists
clientela
contracted domain
Corypha
cronak method
cryptophialoidea secunda
deed registration fee
deflowereth
delay in payment
diogenes tumidus
dipping structure
dissidently
eastermost
endoscopic cold light source
ethynylbenzyl carbamate
eutelolecithal
exergonic
false-zero test
five-channel scanning radiometer
frost hygrometer
fug us
gel swelling
gingival border
hoale
i-deled
ice-shelves
icodextrin
incremental speed governing droop
insaner
internal spermatic veins
Ipililo
Johnstonebridge
joint operating procedure
ketoic
legal argument
life-holy
liquid scintillator detector
list-directed input/output statement
litmouse
Luconge
lynch-pins
mellow-soil plow
mentorlike
MEV, MeV, Mev, mev
myelomeningitis
Napicladium asteroma
nebularia contracta
neutron superfluidity
Nittendorf
ole-db
palpebral edema of the newborn
Penguin Beach
percentage of twist shrinkage
petrolisthes obtusifrons
primary cutaneous cryptococcosis
pronounces
propulsion parameter
Prügy
radioactive cemetery
radiomuscular
refollows
registry offices
relay return spring
roll-off area
RTTIs
sampling apparatus scattering area
so also do
space mark
spring swench
steinwachs
stokes' law of settling
tactical command ship
tangent-cone method
target domain
taxi pattern
thiosemicarbazone isonicotinaldehyde
track servo mechanism
trash boom
triaster egg
triple-digit
upright engine
video envelope
wash place
wideband coating
XIPHOSTOMIDAE