China, as an emerging economy, has maintained an overall fast economic growth rate with an 8.7% GDP increase in 2009. In the first quarter this year, the figure topped 11.9%.

中国作为新兴国家之一，经济总体保持快速增长势头，2009年GDP增长8.7%，今年一季度达11.9%。

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Meanwhile, though, the economy is growing; inflation has been tamed; and the poverty rate was halved in the ten years to 2009, helped by an eightfold increase in the oil price.

与此同时，经济仍在增长；通胀也在可控范围之内；由于能源升值的原因，贫穷率也在十年之间下降了一半。

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Last year, Japanese economy achieved an increase of 3.9%, the fastest growth rate in the past two decades.

去年，日本经济增长了3.9%，为20年来的最快增速。

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Reducing the budget deficit would increase the rate of growth in the economy, increase corporate profits, buttress the stock market.

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But when an economy experiences a significant increase in the rate of inflation, it nearly always ends up with an unemployment rate that goes along for the ride.

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In the longer term, Mr Yudhoyono must increase the rate of growth if the economy is to provide jobs for the millions of young Indonesians who enter the workforce each year.

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