Many other countries—including Australia, Canada, Britain, Germany and even France—are bending over backwards to attract talented people.

包括澳洲、加拿大、英国、德国以及法国在内的许多其他国家正在努力招揽人才。

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Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia, these are countries in which a new middle class is pulling itself out of poverty, determined not to slide backwards.

越南、泰国和印尼,这些国家一个新的中产阶层正在走出贫困，肯定不会型滑。

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In the richest countries life expectancy in the year 2000 will reach 79 years. In some of the poorest it will go backwards to 42 years.

最富有的国家的平均寿命在2000年将达到79岁，而在一些最贫穷的国家，它会倒退到42岁。

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The prime minister said criticism of the defence force was an example of "misguided patriotism that will lead countries backwards".

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"There is a real risk that development will start to go backwards in many countries as the money dries up and that the recession will lead to worsening poverty and terrible consequences for the men, women and children caught in its grip, " she added.

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But both men, like their counterparts elsewhere in the region, seem to realise that the only alternative to pressing forward with their reforms, however unpopular, is to see their countries slide backwards into economic stagnation, deeper poverty and still worse unrest.

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