While the higher IMF estimates may be better yardsticks of economic progress, they have also aroused Third World concern that some hard-pressed developing nations may suddenly be seen as too well-off to receive needed World Bank loans. Under current rules, only countries with a per capita GDP of less than $765 qualify for 35-year interest-free loans, the most favorable terms available. World Bank officials insist that they have no plans to change their own measuring techniques to match the IMFs revised numbers. So the worries in some countries may be justified.

　　The IMFs new tallies are still controversial. Some economists believe that in a number of cases, the value of goods and services in different countries cannot be meaningfully compared. But a majority of economists seem to applaud the change. Nor is the end is sight: forecasters who use IMF methods in adding the economies of Hong Kong and Taiwan to that of China -- envisaging a Greater China, so to speak calculate that total output will exceed the U.S.s in less than a decade.

　　leap vi. 1.跳,跃,跳动 2.急速行动,冲 vt. 跃过 n. 1.跳,跳跃 2.激增,骤变

　　hop vi. 1.单足跳跃 2.齐足跳跃 vt. 跳上 n.1.蹦跳 2.短程航行

　　skip vi. 1.跳,蹦跳 2.跳绳 vt.跳过,略过,漏过 n.跳,蹦跳

　　stun vt. 1.使震惊,使目瞪口呆 2.把打昏,使昏迷

　　productivity n.生产力,生产率

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