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India to Attend G-7 Meeting for First Time

 

India is set to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations in London. India's presence at the meeting reflects its rise on the world economic stage.

 

Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram says he will attend a meeting of finance heads from the Group of Seven nations start in February in London.

He will join his counterparts from four other rapidly developing countries who have been invited to the meeting. Like India, Brazil and South Africa have been asked for the first time. China has been invited for the second time, while Russia has been attending the meetings for many years.

 

The G-7 nations are the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada. The group functions as a kind of global economic council.

 

Economist¹ C.D. Wadhwa of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi said the invitation to India reflects the growing global importance of one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

 

C.D. Wadhwa: This is a recognition that India is an emerging (economic) power. It has already made the mark and by 2020 it will have much greater role to play, and therefore it is important for G-7 to involve it in the reshaping of any international economic order that they think about.

 

In recent years critics have said the G-7 no longer reflects the reality of the global economy, and have advocated its expansion or reform to account for the rise of new economic powerhouses.

 

Mr. Wadhwa says any such changes will have to take into account China and India, which together are home to more than one-third of the world's six billion people, and which have both experienced rapid economic growth over the past few years.

 

India's economy grew 8.2 percent in the year ending April 2004, and is expected to grow another seven percent his year. Economists² widely expect the nation of one billion people to sustain growth of around seven percent over the next decade.

 

Anjana Pasricha for VOA news, New Delhi.

 

注释：

forthcoming [fC:W5kQmiN] adj. 即将来临的

counterpart [5kauntEpB:t] n. 副本，极相似的人或物

council [5kaunsil] n. 讨论会议

take into account 重视，考虑

1 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

2 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》