The effects of the oil price crash of 2014 are still reverberating around the Middle East. A decade of plenty, when oil prices were high, has been replaced by two years of fiscal crisis and the region continues to feel the pain. In the oil-rich Gulf states, for example, growth is expected to slow to 0.9 per cent this year, compared with 2 per cent in 2016, as exporters trim output in a bid to support flagging oil prices.
2014年油價暴跌的影響仍在中東地區迴盪。油價高企時的十年富足已被持續兩年的財政危機取代,而痛楚還在這一地區繼續。例如,在石油儲量豐富的海灣國家,今年的經濟增速預計將放緩至0.9%,而2016年爲2%,原因是石油出口國削減產量以支撐低迷的油價。
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