UNIT 2 Text A PRE-READING TASK Exercise 1 Before reading the passage, try to answer the questions. 1. What is a tariff(关税)? 2. Do you know the difference between a revenue tariff (财政关税

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Economists say that when gender equality increases, poverty is reduced. Swedish Minister for Finance Magadalena Andersson (left), Swedish Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender Equality Asa Regner (middle) and World Bank's Senior Director in G

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Unit 62 World Bank The World Bank is one of the major channels through which development aid is passed from the Industrial West to the poor and developing nations. In the last decade, important changes have taken place in the size of the Bank's opera

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Rob: Hello! Im Rob, this is 6 Minute English - and today, I'm joined byYvonne. Hello, Yvonne. Yvonne: Hi Rob! Rob: Today, were talking about seed banks a place where the seeds from all kindsof plants are carefully stored. Unfortunately, researchers a

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about entrepreneurs and the problems they face starting businesses around the world. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Bill Gates Entrepreneur i

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week's meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the third Group of 20 summit in less than a year. Leaders of the major developed and developing economies discussed ways to fix the world financia

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World Economy Remains Fragile The World Bank says four years after the start of the financial crisis, the global economy remains fragile. Growth in high-income countries remains weak. The bank recommends that developing countries not wait for rich na

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Developing World Investment to Rise The developing world is poised to become a major player in global investment. The World Bank says in fewer than 20 years half the global stock of capital will be in developing countries. That compares to about one-

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ECONOMICS REPORT - The World Bank Fights the Cancer of CorruptionBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, April 07, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The main goal of the W

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ECONOMICS REPORT - IMF Says World Economy Is Recovering By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, April 30, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The International Monetary

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The World Bank is predicting growth rates in Africa in 2009 could fall to half what they have been in the past few years. World Bank Vice President for Africa Obi Ezekwesili, attending the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa,

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Stock prices were down again Wednesday, on Wall Street and in Europe and Asia. As VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington, investors seem to doubt that plans to help troubled financial institutions will be enough to fight off a deep recession. Pede

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 13 April 2006 The head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, says the biggest obstacle to economic growth in Indonesia is the country's endemic corruption. Paul Wolfowitz

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The opening comes after a BRICS summit held in the Russian city of Ufa earlier this month, where leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa talked about some final details of the multilateral lender. Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei

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Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao is representing China at the meetings, which are happening this weekend in Washington and involve the IMF and the World Bank. While making a speech at Washington DC- based think tank the Atlantic Council, he urged t

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To the alphabet soup of international development banks (ADB, AfDB, CAF, EBRD, IADB), add one more set of initials: AIIB, or for the uninitiated, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. On October 24th, representatives from 21 Asian nations signed

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The president of the World Bank cautioned on Monday that much remains to be done to improve the economies in countries in the Middle East and North Africa where popular uprisings have removed repressive leaders. Regional experts at a conference(会议

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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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Finance and economics 财经商业 Reforming the World Bank 世界银行,亟待重整 Zen and the art of poverty reduction 禅宗思想及扶贫艺术 Calm and confusion at the world's biggest development institution 世界最大发展机构平静与

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Nations around the world are pledging more money for emergency loans to help member nations of the International Monetary Fund cope with any new economic crisis. The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said the me

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