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年全球貿易數據令人失望

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數據顯示2014年全球貿易開局不利，表明盡管雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)的倒閉已過去6年，全球經濟復蘇之路依然蹣跚。根據WTO與聯合國貿易和發展會議(UNCTAD)編制的數據，今年頭三個月，全球貿易比去年同期只增加了2.2%。