Japan offers a cautionary tale on the risks of infrastructure-based stimulus.

至于基础设施经济刺激方案的风险，已有日本这一前车之鉴。

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The Paris-based thinktank also told the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, there was no room for the type of fiscal stimulus that the prime minister had been touting around the world.

这个总部设在巴黎的智囊机构还告诉英国首相布朗，那种他在世界各国到处宣扬的财政刺激计划没有可行余地。

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Yet infrastructure spending alone is not a long-term solution. This sort of stimulus will sooner or later become unaffordable, and growth based on it will run out of steam.

然而仅靠基建投资决非长久之计，因为此种方法迟早会无法维系，而其带来的增长也会失去动力。

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Allen Sinai,Chief Global Economist at Boston-based Decision Economics,Inc., says the number of jobs created by the stimulus plan might be "a bit disappointing."

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Japan offers a cautionary tale on the risks of infrastructure-based stimulus.

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