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全球化带来了一个意料之外的副作用：那些曾经只是地方性的问题--比如说，一家银行超额放贷--如今产生了影响全世界的后果。但每个国家仍然像唯一的星球一样独立运作。政策顾问Simon Anholt让政府开始向外考虑的空前设想：好国家指数。在这场精彩又幽默的演讲，他解答了“那个国家做的益事最多？”这个问题，结果可能出你所料（尤其是如果你住在美国或中国）。
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- Now the other thing you'll notice about the top 10 there is,
- 另外一件你注意到的前十名的事情是，
- of course, they're all, apart from New Zealand, Western European nations.
- 当然，除了新西兰以外，它们都是欧州国家。
- They're also all rich. This depressed me,
- 它们也很富有。这让我很沮丧，
- because one of the things that I did not want to discover with this index is that
- 因为我不想在这套数据中发现
- it's purely the province of rich countries to help poor countries.
- 纯粹是富国在帮助穷国。
- This is not what it's all about. And indeed, if you look further down the list,
- 这不是这个指数的含义。的确，如果你继续往下看名单，
- I don't have the slide here, you will see something that made me very happy indeed,
- 我并没有幻灯片，但你会发现一些让我非常愉快的事情，
- that Kenya is in the top 30, and that demonstrates one very, very important thing.
- 肯尼亚在前30名里，这表明了一件非常非常重要但事情。
- This is not about money. This is about attitude. This is about culture.
- 这与钱无关。这是态度问题。这是文化问题。
- This is about a government and a people that care about the rest of the world
- 这是那些政府和人民他们关注世界其他地区，
- and have the imagination and the courage to think outwards instead of only thinking selfishly.
- 并有想像力及勇气去向外看，而不只是自私的考虑自己。
- I'm going to whip through the other slides just so you can see some of the lower-lying countries.
- 我会很快的略过其他幻灯片，为了让你看到一些排在后面的国家。
- There's Germany at 13th, the U.S. comes 21st, Mexico comes 66th,
- 德国第13，美国第21，墨西哥第66，
- and then we have some of the big developing countries, like Russia at 95th, China at 107th.
- 然后我们看到一些发展中国家，俄罗斯第95，中国107。
- Countries like China and Russia and India,
- 像中国、俄罗斯、印度这样的国家，
- which is down in the same part of the index, well, in some ways, it's not surprising.
- 大概在排名在差不多的位置，从某种意义上来说并不让人吃惊。
- They've spent a great deal of time over the last decades building their own economy,
- 他们花很多时间，在过去的几十年中建立自己的经济系统，
- building their own society and their own polity,
- 建立他们自己的社会和体系，
- but it is to be hoped that the second phase of their growth will be somewhat more outward-looking than the first phase has been so far.
- 但我们希望是，他们发展的第二个阶段能够比第一阶段更看得远。
- And then you can break down each country in terms of the actual datasets that build into it.
- 然后你可以将每个国家按实际多数据集分开看。
- I'll allow you to do that. From midnight tonight it's going to be on goodcountry.org, and you can look at the country.
- 我会让你这么做。从今天半夜开始它会在goodcountry.org上，你可以看看每个国家。
- You can look right down to the level of the individual datasets.
- 你可以直接看到每个层次的单个数据集。
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