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Unit 6 英语财经报刊选读 Unit 1The New Structure of the World Economy — G20 Overview Comprehension questions for Text A What’s new in Text A Looking from China’s perspective Unit 1The New Structure of the World Economy — G20 Comprehension Questions 1. What do you know about G20 from the first paragraph? 2. What agreement did Pittsburgh Summit reach? 3. G7 was permanently replaced by G20 in Pittsburgh Summit . And what does this move mean? 4. Why did leaders of G7 and G8 decide to involve emerging market countries in the 1990s? 5. Which member countries of G20 do not fall within the list of the top 20 biggest state GDP’s in the world? G20 An international body that meets to discuss economic issues; Members---19 countries with some of the world’s biggest industrial and emerging economies, plus the European Union; Represent about 90 percent of the world’s gross national product, 80 percent of world trade and two-thirds of the global population; Has taken on a new prominence in the current economic crisis. Agreement Pittsburgh Summit reached to bail out developing countries ; to stimulate world trade ; to regulate financial firms more stringently. G7 was permanently replaced by G20 in Pittsburgh Summit, and it means… the growing economic importance of Asia and some Latin American countries is highlighted G7 and G8 decide to involve emerging market countries in the 1990s, because … they needed a broader group of countries to deal with the Asian financial crisis at that time. Member countries of G20 do not fall within the list of the top 20 biggest state GDP’s in the world are … Argentina Saudi Arabia South Africa What’s new in Text A The globalization of unrestrained free market has produced inequality and insecurity in the west, desperate poverty in the developing world and a sequence of brutal wars causing immense human suffering. A new democratically architecture of global economic co-operation is now needed – new institutions pursuing new policie