While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.
虽然这种做法给许多人带来了严重的健康风险,但对于需要便宜食品的贫穷城镇农民和消费者们来说,比起这些风险,他们所获得的社会和经济利益更有价值。
Economic theory tends to support the optimists. Rational consumers should adjust their long-term spending in response to changes in their wealth, not the ease with which they can tap it.
现有的经济理论倾向于支持乐观派,理性消费者会依据财富变动而对他们长期支出进行调整,而不是悠闲自在的去面对。
At the very least, it suggests that higher rates are unlikely to harm consumers, so the BoJ should try to normalize them as soon as possible to minimize economic distortions.
至少它提出了,更高的利率不可能伤害到消费者,因此,日本银行应该在可能最小化经济扭曲的同时,尝试着使利率正常化。
If economic growth and interest rates are stable, businesses and consumers will be encouraged to take more risks, and in particular to take on more debt.
如果经济增长和利率水平很稳定,那么企业和消费者的更加冒险的行为就会得到鼓励,特别是承担负债问题上。
Clearly, at the top of the economic cycle, consumers will be so desperate to get their hands on raw materials that they will pay well over the cost of production.
很清楚,在经济周期的顶部,消费者是如此难于得到原材料,以致他们宁愿支付高于生产成本的价格。
In 2005, he economic models assume consumers will make careful calculations about their mortgages.
2005年,他的经济模型假设消费者将他们的抵押贷款精打细算。
Yet, barring economic disaster in large emerging markets, an army of consumers competing for raw materials will continue to emerge.
然而,除非大型新兴市场发生经济灾难,否则还将有大量的消费者争夺原材料。
The lipstick effect is the theory that when facing an economic crisis consumers will be more willing to buy less costly luxury goods.
口红效应指的是在经济危机时消费者更愿意购买相对廉价的奢侈品这样一个理论。
Executives said they expected the improvement to carry on into 2010 but warned that high unemployment and slow economic growth would continue to keep consumers under pressure.
高管们表示,他们预计好转态势将在2010年持续下去,但警告称,高失业率和缓慢的经济增速将继续对消费者构成压力。
Mr Mitchell is one of millions of consumers across the developed world who are struggling to deal with their debts in reduced economic circumstances.
在经济收缩的时候,发达国家数百万消费者都在努力处理他们的债务,米切尔是其中之一。
The global economic downturn has severely hurt Asia's export economies, because consumers from large markets like the U.S and Europe cut back on spending.
全球经济滑坡严重损害了出口型亚洲国家,因为美国和欧洲等大市场的消费者减少了消费。
A basic economic law stating that as the price of a good increase, suppliers will be willing to produce more but consumers will demand less, so that price and quantity are both interrelated.
一条经济基本法则,即商品价格上涨时,生产商愿意扩大生产,但消费者的需求下降,这样价格和数量相互制约。
The pullback from consumers spooked by an economic downturn spurred an even sharper withdrawal by businesses.
经济衰退对消费者支出的打击引来了企业更严重的下滑。
A big part of the challenge for generating an upturn in sales is that consumers, whose spending has driven roughly 70% of economic activity in recent years, are hamstrung by a bleak job market.
实现销售好转难在就业市场的不景气严重打击了消费者的能力,近年来,消费者开支推动了大约70%的经济活动。
Without higher wages to offset any increase in asset prices, American consumers will be forced to restrain consumption and lower debt. This will cause an economic slowdown.
没有高工资来抵消资产价格的增长,美国人只能限制消费、无法举债,这会导致经济减速。
It is true that some people forecast that the debt burden of English-speaking consumers would lead to economic calamity, but many of those Jeremiahs had been predicting disaster for a decade or so.
的确有人曾预见到英语消费者的庞大负债会把经济引向灾难,而这些先知们的灾难预报已经持续了近10年。
The recession and economic slowdown have reduced buying power and consumers are tightening their belts in many ways, though spending on women’s clothes (and belts) fares slightly better than men’s.
衰退和经济放缓已经降低了美国民众的购买力,消费者们在许多方面勒紧了裤腰带——尽管女性服装和腰带上的支出要比男性稍多。
The recession and economic slowdown have reduced buying power and consumers are tightening their belts in many ways, though spending on women’s clothes (and belts) fares slightly better than men’s.
衰退和经济放缓已经降低了美国民众的购买力,消费者们在许多方面勒紧了裤腰带——尽管女性服装和腰带上的支出要比男性稍多。
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