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导论 张涵 zhanghan-2000@163.com 课程介绍 教学内容为英文经济报刊阅读理解 课堂教学方法体现为精读和讨论，课后要求学生泛读 阅读英文经济报刊的必要性： 一是在使用中提高英语水平，二是丰富自己的专业知识。 每一单元包括几篇篇幅不一的文章，涉及的重点单词和背景知识是课程重点。 教学要求 课堂认真听讲，积极发言讨论 课后完成作业，广泛阅读 附：美国杂志300强及其网址 英文报纸及其网址 教学安排 每次课安排一到两篇文章的精读，预先会布置教学内容以便预习，不定期布置作业。 一学期安排四次小考和一次期中考试，计入平时成绩，占总成绩的40％ 期末考试成绩占总成绩的60％ 内容概述 各个单元内容安排如下： Economic growth Employment Banking Currency and exchange rate Securities market International balance of payments International trade International trade disputes China’s economy Consumption and investment Unit oneEconomic growth A brief introduction to this unit Economic growth is an increase in the total output of a nation in a given period of time. Total output is the total quantity of value of a nation’s goods and services. The most comprehensive indicator is GDP. Besides it, employment and prices are also two indicators. Employment rate and unemployment rate are most directly felt by individual of all the indicators. Unit oneEconomic growth Stable price is another indicator of economic growth and the most common price measure is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures the cost of a basket of goods bought by the average urban consumers. The four factors of economic growth are 1. human resources 2. nature resources 3. capital information 4. technology. Unit oneEconomic growth The three engines of the economic growth are 1. consumption 2. export 3. investment. Governments have two main instruments: 1. fiscal policy 2. monetary policy 1.1 Despite sign of global recovery, OECD points to many risks PARIS: The organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Friday that despite recent trends pointing toward a recovery, global financial markets face numerous risks that could dent investor optimism. In its twice-yearly report on market trends, the OECD said the recent decline in the value of the dollar could slow the pace of the U.S. economic