Despite strong growth and low interest rates, its public debt was still over 80% of GDP on the eve of the global crisis, worse than India’s peers (see chart).

在全球危机前夕，尽管有高增长和低利率，印度的公共债务仍然超过GDP的80%，这比国外同等国家的情况还要糟糕（如图示）。

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Despite strong growth and low interest rates, its public debt was still over 80% of GDP on the eve of the global crisis, worse than India's peers (see chart).

在全球危机前夕，尽管有高增长和低利率，印度的公共债务仍然超过GDP的80%，这比国外同等国家的情况还要糟糕(如图示)。

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The biggest reforms to emerge from the current crisis will be global changes in the ways companies are held accountable for the huge, hidden costs now foisted on the public.

在目前的这场危机中，在全球范围内出现的最大变化是，本应由公司负责的那些庞大的隐形成本，都强加到了公众身上。

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But Mr Johnson, who was made shadow chancellor two weeks ago, accused the government of being "deficit deceivers" who had peddled "myths" to the British public, including that the "biggest global economic crisis since the Great Depression is the fault of the previous government".

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Brown's government is limited in how much it can stimulate the economy: Prior to the global financial crisis, Britain's private sector and public sector already experienced growth that was above the norms of the Group of Seven industrialized countries, and unemployment looked unaturally low at 3.6% in 2000.

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Housing costs have risen almost nonstop as Singapore's economy recovered from the global financial crisis, and have been the cause of growing public complaints in recent years.

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