As official agencies and renowned international economic think tanks release optimistic forecasts for 1995, an American economist, Ravi Batra, has struck an independent note. As the title of his book The World Great Depression suggests, he predicts there will be a global economic disaster in 1995.
在各國官方及著名國際經濟研究機構紛紛發表對九五年的樂觀看法之際，一位美國印度裔的學者拉維．巴托拉（RAVI BATRA）卻獨排眾議，寫了一本名為「世界大恐慌」的書，預言一九九五年將是新一波世界經濟大恐慌的開始。