为什么我们表现如此之差，还被波兰、拉托维亚，斯洛伐克甩在了后面？

So why did we rank so poorly, bested by countries including Poland, Latvia and Slovakia?

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在经济过热的拉托维亚，2007年第四季度的工资水平已经比06年同期提高了30%。

In overheating Latvia, pay in the fourth quarter of 2007 was 30% up on a year earlier (see chart 1).

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局外人对拉托维亚的各种缺点心存担忧，从有漏洞的边界控制到微少的防御开支，国家的主要媒体也被商业利益集团暗中控制。

Outsiders worry about Latvia’s manifold weaknesses, ranging from leaky border controls to feeble defence spending, as well as the domination of the media by shadowy commercial interests.

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