[영문법] 동영상 영어 주해 - 20061106

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자료 출처: VOA Development Report

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  [Development Report ]

Africa Praised for Its Progress in Business Reforms

The World Bank has just (1) rated countries on how friendly they are to business.  And the biggest news was the progress in Africa.  Two African countries, Ghana and Tanzania, are listed this year among the top ten in (2) business reforms. 

For the last two years, the World Bank found that Africa had (3) the least progress in reforms in studies of ten business-related areas.  The international lender says African countries still have (4) the most complex business rules.  But it finds that Africa is making progress at a rate faster than Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

The report is from the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, the private financing agency of the World Bank Group.  This is the fourth year of reports called "Doing Business."  The new one is called "Doing Business Two Thousand Seven: How to Reform."

It says the top five reformers, in order, are Georgia, Romania, Mexico, China and Peru.  France is next, followed by Croatia, Guatemala, Ghana and Tanzania.

Efforts to reduce the time, cost and trouble of legal and administrative requirements can mean greater economic activity.  Business reforms are important especially to developing economies. 

For example, until recently, it took more than one year to receive(5)  property ownership documents in Ivory Coast.  Now the process takes about one month.  The government (6) no longer requires a single minister to deal with all requests to register property.

In China, the government has established a system of credit records, to help people get personal loans.  Now, three hundred forty million Chinese have credit histories. 

Mexico (7) was praised for increasing protections for investors.  And, in El Salvador, business reforms cut the time needed to start a business from more than one hundred days to just twenty-six days. 

Some nations, however, increased (8) barriers to doing business.  The World Bank says these include Bolivia, Eritrea, Hungary, East Timor, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.  It says these nations (9)  made it more difficult to do things like get credit, register property or (10)  move goods across borders.

The report rates one hundred seventy-five economies on the ease of doing business.  The top five, in order, are Singapore, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and Hong Kong. 

Special Note:

1) rated countries on how friendly they are to business

    rated countries: 나라들을 평가했다

    on how friendly they are : 그들이 얼마나 우호적인지에 대해서

    to business : 사업에 대하여

2) business reforms: 사업 개혁

3) the least progress: the least는 little 의 최상급으로, 가장 적은(작은)의 의미 이다. 

4) the most complex business rules: 가장 복잡한 사업 규칙(규정)들

5) property ownership documents: 재산 소유권 소류둘

6) no longer requires: 더 이상 필요로 하지 않는다

7) was praised for: --때문에 칭찬 받다.

8) barriers to doing business: 사업을 하는 데 있어서 장애(장벽)

9) made it more difficult to do things: it는 가목적어이고, to do things 가 진목적어 이다. 

    made it more difficult: 그것을 더욱 어렵게 만들었다.

    to do things 일하는 것을

10) move goords across the borders: 국경(borders)을 건너서 상품(goods)을 이송하다 

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