But Europe's leaders could calm the situation only by sorting out the big economic divergence among the 16 countries which use the common currency.

但欧洲领导人只能通过缩小采用同一货币的16国之间巨大的经济差距来根治这一行为。

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The empirical results show that the fiscal expenditure not only failed to promote regional economic gap narrowed, but has played a negative role in accelerating regional economic divergence.

本文的实证结果表明，财政支出不仅没有促进区域经济差距的缩小，反而起到了负面作用，加速了区域经济的发散。

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If household balance sheets were really the main obstacle to faster recovery, wouldn't the divergence in economic performance between high-debt areas and low-debt areas be far more clear?

如果家庭资产负债表真的是快速复苏的主要障碍，那么高负债地区和低负债地区的经济表现上的差异是不是更加清晰？

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For a novel and somewhat dispiriting theory of economic divergence, read A Farewell to Alms, published this year, by Gregory Clark of the University of California at Davis.

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Looking at the global picture, the divergence of regional economic performance is going to get a lot bigger in terms of growth, inflation and cost of capital.

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This has led to a divergence in competitiveness, in growth of exports, in overall economic growth, and in employment among the member countries.

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