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Vocabulary Notes to Text 8.7.1.4

1. truism — общеизвестная, избитая истина

2. corollary — вывод, заключение

3. revelation — откровение

a) Imports of goods and services represent the .1578value of all goods and other market services received

from the rest of the world.

They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license

fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business,

personal, and government services.

They exclude labor and property income (formerly called factor services) as well as transfer

payments.

Ten-Year

Average

Import volume 1987-

1996

1997-

2006

1197 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Advanced economies 6,5 6,1 9,4 5,9 8,1 11,7 -0,8 2,6 3,6 8,5

United States 6,1 7,7 13,6 11,6 11,5 13,1 -2,7 3,4 4,4 9,9

Euro area 5,4 6,0 9,1 9,9 7,6 11,2 1,7 0,6 1,8 6,0

Germany 4,1 5,9 8,3 9Д 8,4 10,6 1,0 -1,6 4,0 5,7

France 4,8 6,5 7,2 11,5 6,1 15,2 1,6 3,3 0,2 7,4

Italy 5,3 4,2 10,1 8,9 5,6 7,1 0,5 -0,2 -0,6 2,6

Spain 9,9 8,5 13,3 13,2 12,6 10,5 3,9 3,1 4,8 9,0

Japan 8,5 2,9 0,7 -6,7 3,6 8,5 -0,7 1,2 3,8 8,9

United Kingdom 5,4 6,3 9,8 9,3 7,9 9,1 4,9 4,1 1,9 5,2

Canada 6,0 5,7 14,2 5,1 7,8 8,1 -5,0 1,4 3,8 8,2

Other advanced

economies

9,2 6,2 8,7 -2,3 7,2 14,0 -4,1 5,8 6,8 13,0

Memorandum

Major advanced

I economies

5,7 6,1 9,4 7,8 8,3 11,1 -0,6 2,0 3,2 7,5

Newly industrialized

Asian economies

14,3 6,6 8,2 -8,2 8,2 17,4

... _

-6,4 8,1 9,1 15,8

Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Globalization and External Imbalances,

April 2005

b ) US Imports as a percentage of GDP

1999 2000 2001 2002

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP) 14 15 14 14

Source: World Development Indicators database

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8.7.2. Match the following terms with the correct definition

Work with a partner.

1. demand deposit

2. futures

3. exchange control

4. transactions motive

5. current account

a) 1. The most common type of bank account, on which deposits

do not earn interest, but can be withdrawn by cheque at any time (US = demand dep2o. sTiht)a;t part

of the balance of payments accounts recording current, i.e. non-capital, transactions.

b)Setting a legal limit on foreign exchange transaction.

c) The factor which causes people or firms to hold a stock of

money to finance their foreseeable expenditures.

d) (US) Money on current account, i.e. a bank deposit that can

be withdrawn without notice.

e) Contracts made in a “future market” for the purchase or sale

of commodities or financial assets, on a specified future date.

8.7.3. Read the text, complete it using the words from the box, and translate it into Russian

loan, liabilities, current, assets, settlement, deposits

By bank deposits we mean the amount of money standing to the credit of a customer of a bank.

Bank deposit are ... (1) of its customers and ... (2) of the bank. Deposits may arise from the payments

of cash or a cheque to a bank for credit to a customer, or by transfer into an account from

another account, including a ... (3) from a bank to its customer. Bank ... (4) are simply IOUs*

written in the books of the bank. They do not necessarily reflect actual holdings of cash by the

bank. Since bank deposits are used in the ... (5) of debts, they are money in the economic sense, so

that by creating deposits banks create money (banking). A deposit may be on ... (6) account or

deposit account. These two types of accounts are known as demand deposits and time deposits in

the USA. Bankers’ deposits are deposits by a commercial bank at the central bank.