Global
trade makes a slow start in 2014
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World
trade had an anaemic start to 2014 according to figures that confirm the
faltering state of the global economic recovery six years on from the collapse
of Lehman Brothers. The first three months of the year saw the volume of global
trade expand just 2.2 per cent from the same period a year ago, according to
data compiled by the WTO and the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, Unctad.
2014年全球贸易数据令人失望
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数据显示2014年全球贸易开局不利，表明尽管雷曼兄弟(Lehman
Brothers)的倒闭已过去6年，全球经济复苏之路依然蹒跚。根据WTO与联合国贸易和发展会议(UNCTAD)编制的数据，今年头三个月，全球贸易比去年同期只增加了2.2%。