注:括号内为增值指数。
虽然大多数食品不在增值税调整之列,消费者却难以幸免:根据经济学人商品价格指数,全球食品价格去年上升了27%。
Most food escapes VAT, but that will not spare consumers: global food prices have risen by 27% in the past year, according to the Economist's commodity-price index.
这也是《经济学家》长久以来在全球房价综合季度报道中采用的指数。这个指数表明美国2007年第一季度住宅比上年同期增值4.3%。
This index, which the Economist has long used in its quarterly round-up of global house prices, suggests American homes were worth 4.3% more in the first quarter of 2007 than they were a year earlier.
不过Case -Shiller住房价格指数的创始人之一、教授凯斯(Karl“Chip”Case)和其他人的研究显示,长期来看,房产每年增值的幅度要高过通胀几个百分点。
But studies by Professor Karl 'Chip' Case (of Case-Shiller), and others, suggest that over the long-term housing has tended to beat inflation by a couple of percentage points a year.
不过Case -Shiller住房价格指数的创始人之一、教授凯斯(Karl“Chip”Case)和其他人的研究显示,长期来看,房产每年增值的幅度要高过通胀几个百分点。
But studies by Professor Karl 'Chip' Case (of Case-Shiller), and others, suggest that over the long-term housing has tended to beat inflation by a couple of percentage points a year.
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