With all this discouraging news, it is little comfort that some areas of the world are still displaying considerable growth rates: China is expected to grow by 9.5% this year and in 2009, with India growing by 8%, Russia up by 6.5%, owing to higher oil prices, and Latin America growing by 4.5% on average during this period. Unfortunately, the weight of these countries and regions is small;
伴随着这些令人沮丧的消息，世界有些地区仍然展示出的相当可观的增长率给人稍许安慰：预期中国在今年和2009年的增长率达到9.5%，印度达到8%，俄罗斯由于高油价达到6.5%，以及拉丁美洲在这个时期平均增长率达到4.5%。不幸的是，这些国家和地区的比重过小：它们中经济规模最大的中国也只占世界经济的5%。