Методические указания по изучению английского языка на 3 курсе заочного факультета. Якушева И.В - 35 стр.

hind that of the developed countries.
   III. Переведите 1 и 3 абзацы текста.

   IV. Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих словосочета-
ний:
   обуздать инфляцию, сохранять постоянный рост, уровень безработицы,
преобладающая доля, процентная ставка, страны с рыночной экономикой,
укреплять экономический прогресс, средний доход на душу населения.
   V. Ответьте письменно на следующие вопросы к тексту:
   1. What were the main tendencies in the world economy in the 1980s?
   2. What did developed market economy countries succeed in?
   3. What was the situation like in more industrialized exported economies of
East Asia?

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     The world economy in the 1980 s has been characterized by a low-down in
growth of demand and output compared with the preceding two decades, gener-
ally lower rates of inflation, difficulties in many countries in adopting to struc-
tural changes, a mounting stock of debt, high real interest rates, high and increas-
ing levels of protection, commodity prices depressed to their lowest level in 50
years and a generally insecure economic environment in which millions of people
still lack the basic conditions for a decent life.
     In this difficult global economic situation, there has been a diversity of socio-
economic experiences. Developed market-economy countries have succeeded in
curbing inflation and in maintaining steady, though slow, growth, unimployment
levels were still high and external payments imbalances remained excessive in
some of these countries. On account of their dominant share in world trade, the
impact of their, slow growth has been transmitted to other countries which have
had to reckon with it as a significant factor in policy formulation. Growth has
slowed also in countries of Eastern Europe.
     Most developing countries have had to retrench. They have been unable to
consolidate and built upon the economic and social progress, which they had
achieved during the two preceding decades. In the 1980s, the average per capita
income of the developing countries as a whole fell further behind that of the de-
veloped countries. Indeed, per capita incomes declined in most countries in Latin
America and in sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, a number of more industrial-


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