When the countdown to midnight is over, few will look back at 2012 as a cheerful year for the world economy. The eurozone fell back into recession, with countries on its periphery paying the highest price in terms of job losses and falling living standards. Britain experienced its own double-dip and is now in its slowest recovery in 100 years. Strong figures for the third quarter confirmed that the US economy is in better health than Europe’s. However, even for the US there was no trace of the sharp rebound that some analysts had hoped for.
當午夜倒計時結束后，很難有誰會在回顧過去時，會把2012年視為一個全球經濟表現(xiàn)令人振奮的年份。歐元區(qū)再次陷入衰退，其外圍國家在失業(yè)增加和生活水平下降方面付出了最高昂的代價。英國也遭遇了雙底衰退，現(xiàn)在正處于100年來最緩慢的復蘇之中。第三季度的強勁數(shù)據證實，美國經濟的健康狀況好于歐洲。但即便在美國，也并未出現(xiàn)一絲一毫某些分析人士所期待的大規(guī)模復蘇的跡象。