Anyone taking a look at the long-term global data on trade and prosperity would struggle not to conclude that the two make perfect bedfellows. When trade growth is weak, the global economy is weak and over the past generation, trade growth has led economic growth. Over 50 years between 1960 and 2010, global economic growth averaged roughly 3.5 per cent a year with the annual growth of imports almost double that at 6.8 per cent.
任何人只要看一下長期的全球貿(mào)易和經(jīng)濟(jì)繁榮數(shù)據(jù), 都很難不得出它們是完美伙伴的結(jié)論。當(dāng)貿(mào)易增長疲軟時,全球經(jīng)濟(jì)也疲軟;在過去一代人時間里, 貿(mào)易增長帶動了經(jīng)濟(jì)增長。在從1960年到2010年的50年間,全球經(jīng)濟(jì)平均年增速約3.5%,而進(jìn)口年增速為6.8%,幾乎是經(jīng)濟(jì)增速的一倍。