PARIS – When the International Monetary Fund lowered its global growth forecast for 2014 and 2015 from 3.7% and 3.9%, respectively, to 3.3% and 3.8%, it cited the eurozone’s increasingly gloomy prospects, including significantly slower growth in Germany, as a leading cause. After all, the eurozone still accounts for about 13% of world output at market prices – about the same as China.
巴黎—国际货币基金组织（IMF）将其2014年和2015年全球增长预期分别从3.7%和3.9%调低到3.3%和3.8%时给出的原因是欧元区前景日益暗淡，而德国增长大幅放缓是主要因素。毕竟，欧元区仍贡献了全世界13%的产出（以市场价格衡量），与中国大致相当。