Despite its mineral wealth, the Central African nation suffers from decaying infrastructure and is still recovering from back-to-back civil wars that ended in 2003.

尽管其矿产丰富，中部非洲国家忍受着陈旧的基础设施，并从直到2003年结束持续的内战中不断的恢复。

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Despite its mineral wealth the Central African nation suffers from decaying infrastructure and is still recovering from back-to-back civil wars that ended in 2003.

尽管其矿产丰富，中部非洲国家忍受着陈旧的基础设施，并从直到2003年结束持续的内战中不断的恢复。

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The Kremlin is still shocked by Russia losing 8 percent of its GDP last year, more than any other G-20 nation, despite having the third-largest international currency reserves in the world.

尽管俄罗斯的国际货币储备世界第三，去年俄罗斯的GDP还是下降了8%，降幅比20国集团的其他成员国都要大，这使得克林姆林宫着实感到震惊。

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He explains that despite their differences the plane crash in Russia is "a great loss for the nation, which will be difficult to overcome."

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Despite the weak report, the nation's unemployment rate fell 0.2 a point to 9.5 percent as thousands of Americans gave up looking for work.

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Despite the setback,he was upbeat about the future energy needs of the small Baltic nation.

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Energy-rich California, despite the nation's third-highest unemployment rate, has created a mere 20, 000 such jobs.

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Despite the nation's technical prowess, wind power is underdeveloped and little effort has been made to exploit Japan's vast geothermal potential.

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Despite the nation's massive debt, Obama said he won't be focusing on building a balanced budget at the start of his administration.

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