“Despite the fact growth has really been strong, the impact on poverty this year has been more muted than in previous years,” says Homi Kharas, Chief Economist for the World Bank's East Asia region.

世界银行东亚与太平洋地区局的主任经济师Homi Kharas说：“虽然增长速度确实很快，但今年它对贫困的影响却不如往年明显。”

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Industries like health care and education are still adding jobs. Public accounting and financial advising are also continuing to do well, although their growth is more muted.

医疗保健、教育等行业的工作岗位仍在增加，会计及理财顾问行业也持续看好，只不过它们的增长势头有所减弱而已。

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The muted moves came ahead of U.S. data on nonfarm payrolls for November. Analysts expect the pace of jobs growth to improve, but remain too slow to make a dent in unemployment levels.

股市动向尚不明朗，外界等待美国11月份非农就业人数报告公布，分析师预计美国11月就业岗位的增长速度有所改善，但是增速依然缓慢，不足以降低目前居高不下的失业率。

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McPherson offered two examples of these small cap stocks that benefit from muted economic growth.

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In order to prevent inflation expectations from becoming entrenched, he said that the Bank of England has "become firmer in its belief that a period of muted economic growth is necessary to dampen pressures on prices and wages".

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He notes that the company had muted expectations for growth in Europe coming into the year, and that the situation is playing out as expected.

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