总之,易货贸易是一种效率很低的交易形式。Overall, barter is a very inefficient means of organizing transactions.非国有企业逐渐挤掉了效率低下的国有企业。Non-state firms gradually elbow aside the inefficient state-owned ones.能源价格一直维持低水平,所以能源利用效率很低。Energy prices h...
失业率上升,相对应的是生产率进一步提高。The obverse of rising unemployment is continued gains in productivity.工资的涨幅高过了生产率增长的速度,从而消耗了利润所得。Wages were rising faster than productivity and this was eating into profits.第三季度的结果表明生产率持续上升。The third-...