考研英语报刊文章阅读及剖析(13)
How does the countrys economy compare with those of the EU?
SOME of the concerns surrounding Turkeys application to join the European Union, to be voted on by the EUs Council of Ministers on December 17th, are economic-in particular, the countrys relative poverty. Its GDP per head is less than a third of the average for the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU. But it is not far off that of one of the ten new members which joined on May 1st 2004 , and it is much the same as those of two countries, Bulgaria and Romania, which this week concluded accession talks with the EU that could make them full members on January 1st 2007.
Furthermore, the countrys recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, stunning . GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13.4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching. Turkeys inflation rate has just fallen into single figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country reached agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion economic programme that will, according to the IMFs managing director, Rodrigo Rato, help Turkey... reduce inflation toward European levels, and enhance the economys resilience .
Resilience has not historically been the countrys economic strong point. As recently as 2001, GDP fell by over 7%. It fell by more than 5% in 1994, and by just under 5% in 1999. Indeed, throughout the 1990s growth oscillated like an electrocardiogram recording a violent heart attack. This irregularity has been one of the main reasons why the country has failed dismally to attract much-needed foreign direct investment. Its stock of such investment is lower now than it was in the 1980s, and annual inflows have scarcely ever reached $1 billion .
One deterrent to foreign investors is due to disappear on January 1st 2005. On that day, Turkey will take away the right of virtually every one of its citizens to call themselves a millionaire. Six noughts will be removed from the face value of the lira; one unit of the local currency will henceforth be worth what 1m are now-ie, about ?0.53 . Goods will have to be priced in both the new and old lira for the whole of the year, but foreign bankers and investors can begin to look forward to a time in Turkey when they will no longer have to juggle mentally with indeterminate strings of zeros.
2011年实用口语练习:当猪飞起来的时候
如何用英语表达“原来啊…”
2011年实用口语练习:劝君“上当”一回
八句话表达感情纠葛
英语口语:怎样放“狠话”让对方离你远点
2011年实用口语练习:各种哭的说法(二)
2011年实用口语练习:“锅中的火花”
2011年实用口语练习:我办事你放心
英文结婚短信祝福语
2011年实用口语练习:歉意如何说出口 1
2011年实用口语练习:出恭的各种表达
如何用英文表达“我不太想做某事”
2011年实用口语练习:有钱人 称心如意
如何提高英语口语
2011年实用口语练习:今日事今日毕
2011年实用口语练习:5=击掌?
2011年实用口语练习:别想宰我,我识货
如何用英文表达“欣赏,感激”
张柏芝谢霆锋正式离婚(双语)
英文单词 “Do”的活用
2011年实用口语练习:我是无辜的
实用口语:关于衣服的必备短语
2011年实用口语练习:At the post office 在邮局
2011年实用口语练习:高铁开通了
2011年实用口语练习:“挑刺儿”
英语口语-商业谨致问候语
2011年实用口语练习:各种睡不着
英语口语-商业信函用语引言
英文各种各样的“钱”你都认识么?
英语口语-害羞
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |