Jackie: Welcome to bbclearningenglish.com and another chance to hear Insight Plus, a series first broadcast in 2001 that looks at the language of issues you hear about in the news. Todays topic is Big Brands, companies which see the entire world as

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 英语讨论

Developing an Ecosystem of Innovation I recently joined the second annual Asia-Global Dialogue held by one of Hong Kongs leading think tanks, the Fung Global Institute. The two-day event brought together opinion leaders from business, academia and go

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笔译

At first glance, its puzzling. The job market is finally looking something like its old self, with unemployment at 5.9%, a bit below its 6% pre-recession rate. 乍一看很令人费解。美国就业市场终于开始展露复苏迹象,目前的失业

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Staying with the precious metal, and Chinas largest gold company says the country will surpass India to become the top consumer of gold in the world. In the first three quarters of this year, China produced 284 tons of the yellow metal, a nine percen

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A little money can go a long way, especially in the developing world. This is one of the main beliefs of the non-profit group GlobalGiving. Two former top officials at the World Bank launched Globa

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AS IT IS 2016-01-20 62 People Own Most of World's Wealth 62个人拥有世界上的大部分财富 The richest 62 people on earth now have the same wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion, according to a report from Oxfam. Five years ago, the majority of w

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Oil and the world economy 原油和世界经济 The new Greece? 又一个希腊? How to assess the risks of a 2012 oil shock 如何评价2012石油危机的风险 WITH the euro crisis in abeyance, high oil prices have become the latest source of wo

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

G20杭州峰会于9月5日下午闭幕。本届峰会期间,习近平主席在B20主旨演讲和G20开闭幕致辞等一系列重要讲话中,阐述中国主张,给出中国答案,为世界经济开出药方。 杭州峰会达成了哪些共识

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- China will reform its energy and resource pricing system this year, but will time it to minimize impacts on consumer prices, the country's price regulator said Tuesday. The move is aimed at letting the market play a role

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

At the UN climate summit which starts Monday in Paris, governments are expected to adopt a landmark deal to fight climate change and help vulnerable countries deal with rising sea levels, extreme weather events and other effects of global warming. UN

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Lagarde said the effort to transit the Chinese economy comes at a tough time, with declining oil prices and fluctuating global markets. You know, we clearly understand the multiple layered transitions through which the Chinese economy is going and wi

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CANBERRA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have made the alarming discovery that sea levels have risen more in the past century than at any other comparable period in the past 6,000 years. Researchers from the Australian National University

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Globally, wealth skyrocketed 8.3 per cent over the past year to a record $263trillion (?165trillion). 全球总财富比去年增加了8.3%,达到历史最高值263万亿美元。 But the research found the distribution of the riches has become inc

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DUBAI, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Dubai-based world free zone organization (World FZO) said here on Sunday that it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in order to promote the

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

North Americas share of global output has fallen much less than that of Europe or Latin America over the past 20 years, undermining US President Donald Trumps claims that unfair trade deals have been detrimental to American workers in particular. 过去

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

1. The global market said entered a bear market territory after one of the worst days on Wall Street since 2008. Rallies by Asian and European markets were short-lived as investors worried about the US credit downgrade, Europe's debt crisis and the e

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ROME, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published the State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO) 2015-2016 on Wednesday, calling for a pragmatic approach that would align agricultural and tra

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If, 20 or 30 years from now, central banks and sovereign wealth funds hold a significant portion of their reserves in renminbi-denominated assets, financial historians will probably look back on 2015 as a turning point. 如果二、三十年后,各国

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UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- There has been an overall decline in the number of new Ebola cases, especially in the three most affected African countries, said a UN official on Ebola on Tuesday. Briefing on the progress in the global Ebola resp

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The IMF's model did not allow for an Iraqi invasion. 国际货币基金组织的模型并未考虑到伊拉克的入侵。 But other errors are less easily explained: between 1990 and 2007, the IMF's spring forecasts underestimated global growth in 1

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