Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's economy is crippled, there are chronic shortages, official inflation is running at 100,000% or more and unemployment at 80%.

与此同时，津巴布韦的经济却举步维艰，商品供应长期短缺，官方公布的通胀达到甚至超过100,000 %，失业率高达80%。

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The risk they face is the economic equivalent of renal failure: inflation, a hollowing-out of the non-oil sector, and a young, growing workforce in chronic need of outside Labour to supplement it.

他们面对的风险等同肾功能衰竭：通胀；中空的非石油相关行业；成长起来的年轻劳动力沉疴缠身，需要输入劳工为他们服务。

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Italy is one country where it is really good-by to the boom, at least until the chronic weakness in the balance of payments is cured, and the 17% inflation is reduced.

意大利是一个真正与经济繁荣告别了的国家，至少，在国际收支方面的长期困境得以改善，以及每年17%的通货膨胀有所抑制之前，情况难以好转。这里的告别一词，既good - bye，通俗易懂。

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That situation produced chronic inflation and low, even negative, real interest rates that sent property prices into the stratosphere.

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The government says it will impose sweeping monetary and other changes to pull down Turkey's chronic inflation (65% a year, at last count) and runaway interest rates.

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Although the economy has been weak for much of Mr Cardoso's second term, the president remained popular, for having tamed Brazil's chronic inflation and for bringing stability to its democracy.

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