Step back a bit, however, and the TFA looks rather bedraggled. 然而,稍微退一步来看,贸易便利化协定看上去破旧不堪。 It rose out of the ashes of the Doha round, the last big attempt at a global trade deal, as the least contro

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Finance and Economics 财经 The Ethiopias Commodity Exchange: High-tech, low impact 埃塞俄比亚的商品交易所:高科技,低影响 A state-of-the-art commodity exchange struggles with the basics. 该国最先进的商品交易所仍在基础

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That still represents a big change. 尽管如此,全球政局还是发生了不小的变化。 For the past 30 years multinationals in developed markets have mostly operated in a benign environment. 过去三十年里,成熟市场的跨国企业大

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Finance and economics: Global house prices Hot in the city 财经:全球房价,楼市过热 Valuations in globalised cities are rising much faster than in their hinterlands. 全球化城市的估价比其腹地增价快。 GLOBALISATION has creat

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Whenever the supply of a good is limited, there is potential for exuberance. 一种商品供给的有限性总是伴随着繁荣的潜在性。 San Francisco's property market is intertwined with the technology sector: since 2008 there has been a 93%

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Finance and economics: Inequality in Japan The secure v the poor 财经:日本社会的不平等,稳定工作者与穷人 The problem is not the super-rich. 问题不在于巨富之人。 IN THOMAS PIKETTY'S bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-Firs

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Business: 3D printing: Print my ride 商业:3D打印:打印我的座驾 A mass-market carmaker starts customising vehicles individually. 大众化生产商开启汽车定制新时代。 Another milestone has been passed in the adoption of additiv

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Finance and economics: Insurance in China Safe or sorry? 财经:中国的保险行业,确保安全还是留有遗憾? Regulators try to tame the unruly parts of an important industry. 监管部门努力驯服一个重要行业中不守规矩的角

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Economics brief: Fiscal multipliers 经济概要:财政乘数 Where does the buck stop? 责任到哪里为止? Fiscal stimulus, an idea championed by John Maynard Keynes, has gone in and out of fashion. 由凯恩斯首倡的财政刺激思想经历

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Keynes advised the government during the first world war and participated in the Versailles peace conference, which ended up extracting punitive reparations from Germany. 第一次世界大战期间,凯恩斯曾在出任政府顾问,参与过最终

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They should therefore save income earned as a result of stimulus in order to have it on hand for when the bill came due. 因而,为了在账单到期时手里有钱,他们应当把作为刺激结果而挣到的收入存起来。 The multiplier on

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Finance and economics: Free exchange: Hard bargains 财经:自由交换:艰苦的讨价还价 Two economists win the Nobel prize for their work on the theory of contracts. 两位经济学家因其对于契约理论的研究获得诺奖。 Economi

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A publisher might buy a printing company in order to have more control over its assets, and ensure its presses are used to print its own books first. 出版商可能会为了对其资产有更多的控制权并确保印刷设备首先被用于印刷自

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Finance and economics: The world economy: Our election, your problem 财经:世界经济:我们的选举,你们的问题 A Trump presidency will be bad for the world economy and worse for places outside America. 对于世界经济来说,特朗普

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The larger budget deficits entailed by tax reform, along with more public spending on infrastructure, would underpin yields on long-term Treasury bonds. 因税收改革而造成的更大的预算赤字,连同更多的基础设施公共开支一起,

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Leaders: Big economic ideas Breakthroughs and brickbats 社论:重大经济思想突破与板砖 What economists can learn from the discipline's seminal papers 经济学家能够从这一学科的经典论文中所学到的 It is easy enough to cri

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Business: Schumpeter: Risky business 商业:熊皮特:冒险的生意 Managers need to watch political risk in developed markets as well as emerging ones. 管理者不仅需要留意新兴市场,还要关注成熟市场的政治风险。 Multin

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They also boosted risky mortgage lending, since brokers' earnings were linked to the size of the loans they sold. 他们还宣传存在风险的抵押贷款,因为经理人的收入和他们销售的贷款额度相挂钩。 Financial regulators wer

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Italy's domestic politics are also concerning. 意大利的国内政治也令人担忧。 The government's row with the European Commission over its budget and ensuing market jitters are starting to weigh on sentiment and push up borrowing costs. 该国

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The seaside promenade in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, a self-governing British Crown dependency, boasts grand Victorian buildings and a horse-drawn tram. 曼岛是一个英国王权的自治属地,其首府道格拉斯的海滨大道上坐落着宏伟

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