Youth unemployment has direct costs in much the same way all unemployment does: increased benefit payments; lost income-tax revenues; wasted capacity.

青年失业问题同所有失业问题产生的直接成本大体一样：失业保险救济金增加，收入所得税减少，生产能力被浪费。

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The foreign exchange reserves will be consumed, or even result in the depletion of foreign exchange reserves, which seriously weakened the capacity of its external payments;

这一方面会消耗外汇储备，甚至会造成外汇储备的枯竭，从而严重削弱其对外支付能力；

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In many circumstances, the underlying economics of building these plants would not make sense without these capacity payments.

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The fiscal position's vulnerability to a softening of international oil prices, combined with Mr Correa's weaker commitment to debt servicing, could cast doubt on the country's payments capacity.

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Through this mechanism outlined in the bill, payments will be made to power stations to ensure there is sufficient and reliable capacity to meet demand.

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