Experts are predicting just a modest slowdown in growth this year. By contrast, the world's other big economic regions grew less robustly, with Japan's economy up only two percent and Europe less.

跟美国经济相比，世界其他经济大国的增长率就不大令人满意了，尤其是日本经济只增长了2%，欧洲的表现则更差。

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Holding these meetings in the world's "south" is a good way for organizers to draw a contrast with the north's great wealth.

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Chowdhry downplayed the reputational risk to Satyam of the World Bank's bribery charges, noting that without offering any proof of wrongdoing, in contrast with other recent IT supplier-client disputes, the global institution seemed to have left itself open to a defamation suit.

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