WASHINGTON The global recovery is gaining momentum according to new projections by the World Bank. But unlike previous years, the World Bank says growth in 2014 is likely to be driven in large part by high income countries. Five years after the finan

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

从新托福阅读的准备角度来讲,首先是要培养起一种在电脑前看长篇英语文章的感觉,平时在有空的时候就可以刻意地去营造这样的一种环境。因为选择了IBT,就意味着必须和电脑为伍,因为

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

Business 商业报道 Middle managers 中层管理者 In praise of David Brent 赞扬大卫?布兰特 Middle managers are not as useless as people think 中层管理者并不像人们认为的那样没有用处 IN UNDERCOVER BOSS, a British televisio

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening. 晚上十点以后你才能从下属那儿听到些真话。 Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by appreciating everything you have. 成功不

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Business 商业报道 Corporate transparency 公司透明化 Measuring mud 离析淤积物 How transparent are the world's biggest listed companies? 世界上最大的上市公司透明程度到底如何 Clear envelopes have yet to catch on 透明的信

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Business 商业报道 Business and geopolitics 商业与地缘政治学 Enter the G20 走进G20 Business hopes to be heard at next week's G20 summit 商界希望下周的G20峰会能倾听到自己的心声 WHEN the G20, a group of governments from t

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Unemployment in the West 西方国家的失业情况 The quest for jobs 追逐工作 It is not impossible for politicians to reduce the Wests frighteningly high unemployment levels 对于政客们来说,降低西方国家令人为之恐惧的高失业

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

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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Mr Thaler, an American born in New Jersey in 1945, spent most of his early career at Cornell University before moving to the University of Chicago in 1995. 赛勒,这位1945年出生在新泽西州的美国人,在1995年转投芝加哥大学之前,

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Similarly, long-run returns provide support for the grand theory of inequality set out in 2013 by Thomas Piketty, 同样,长期回报还为托马皮克迪在2013年提出的宏大的不平等理论提供了支持。 a French economist, who suggeste

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Economists think prices, like spilt ketchup, are sticky. They move only slowly as firms digest economic conditions. 经济学家认为价格就像溢出的番茄酱一样黏糊糊的。它们只会在公司消化经济状况时缓慢变动。 Financi

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Finance and Economics 财经 Free exchange 自由交流 Negative justice 负公平 Sub-zero interest rates are neither unfair nor unnatural. 负利率既非不公平也非不自然。 Denmark's Maritime Museum in Elsinore includes one particularly un

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SYDNEY, May 2 (Xinhua) --- The Australia New Zealand Bank (ANZ) has reported first-half underlying profit of over 3 billion U.S. dollars, a result that stands in stark contrast to its refusal to keep in step with the central bank's official rate move

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The prime minister is to tell the United Nations that he is willing to cut the UK's fleet of Trident missile-carrying submarines from four to three. Gordon Brown will make the offer at a meeting of the UN Security Council on halting the spread of nuc

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Maize and soybean prices set new records as drought continues to spread across the American Midwest. Higher food prices are expected to follow, and the U.S. meat industry will be especially hard hit. Maize traded above $8 a bushel (per 25 kilograms)

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United States 美国 Working and Race: Colouring in 工作与种族:上色 A trio of labour economists suggest that effort at work is correlated with race. 由三名劳动经济学家组成的团队声称工作效率与人种有关。 GIVEN the lon

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The first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday was, rightly, not about the clothes: It was about trying to unify the party, rise above the opponent and so on, as many of my colleagues have described. Which is not to say it lacked a f

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A new economic report compiled by Renmin University, which has been presented at the sessions, is warning China's economic growth will continue to dip next year. The report says the transition from an investment-and-export driven model towards innova

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HANOI - Mired by mismanagement and debt, state-owned enterprises are the bane of the Vietnamese economy. But a recent move to publicize earnings is being hailed as a revolutionary step towards reform. When Vietnamese police issued an arrest warrant f

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The robot takeover of the world may not be as dramatic as we thought. It won't come in the form of explosions, but rather in the form of employment. Yikes. 机器人掌管世界不会像我们想象的那么戏剧化。它会以受雇佣,而不是爆

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