国际货币基金组织降低对澳大利亚增长的预测
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its forecast for Australian economic growth, warning policy action in response to the global recession will have a limited impact.
国际货币基金组织（IMF）降低了对澳大利亚经济增长的预测，并警告说澳洲政府应对全球衰退所采取的政策行动收效甚微。
Releasing its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF forecast the Australian economy would contract by 1.4 per cent in 2009, before growing by 0.6 per cent in 2010.
国际货币基金组织发布了最新的世界经济展望（World Economic Outlook），预测 2009 年澳大利亚的经济将会缩水 1.4%，到 2010 年才会恢复，预测增长 0.6%。
The IMF expects world growth to decline by 1.3 per cent in 2009, more than the 1.0 per cent fall it projected in March, and a hefty 1.8 per cent reduction from what it predicted at the start of the year.
国际货币基金组织预期 2009 年全球经济增长下跌 1.3%，高于三月所预测的下降 1%，而且比年初时所预计的大幅下跌 1.8%。
It sees global growth rising 1.9 per cent in 2010.
国际货币基金组织预计 2010 年全球经济增长 1.9%。
The severity of the global recession, shown in the IMF's 'bleak assessment', has dragged Australia's economy into recession, Treasurer Wayne Swan says.
财政部长 Wayne Swan 表示，从国际货币基金组织“暗淡的前景评估”来看，全球衰退的严重程度已经迫使澳大利亚的经济陷入衰退。
However, the nation's outlook 'is a much milder contraction than expected in almost every other advanced economy, which combined are expected to contract by an unprecedented 3.8 per cent in 2009,' he said in a statement.
财政部长在一份声明中说，然而，与几乎所有其他发达国家所预期的经济萎缩程度相比，澳大利亚的经济前景萎缩要轻微得多了，2009 年这些发达国家总体预计下跌幅度达到前所未有的 3.8%。
The IMF also forecasts unemployment in Australia will rise to 7.8 per cent by 2010, compared to a 9.2 per cent unemployment rate for advanced economies as a whole.
国际货币基金组织还预测到 2010 年，澳大利亚的失业率将上升至 7.8%，与此相比，发达国家总体来说失业率为 9.2%。
The assessment together with substantial downgrades in its global growth forecasts, presents the 'most challenging backdrop' to an Australian budget in living memory, the treasurer said.
财政部长说，在此项评估连同对全球增长预测的大幅降级的背景下，澳洲政府的预算将面临人们记忆中“最严峻的一次挑战”。
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