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French to English: General information about cholera (extract) General field: Medical Detailed field: Medical (general)
Source text - French Le choléra sévit désormais de manière endémo-épidémique dans les régions lacustres et certaines villes proches des lacs, le plus souvent en relation avec des déplacements de populations dus à une instabilité politique, comme en 1994 avec l’arrivée d’un million de réfugiés rwandais à Goma (République Démocratique du Congo). Débute alors l’épidémie de choléra la plus explosive jamais observée pendant une période très courte. Entre le 14 juillet et le 15 août, 36 000 cas au moins ont été recensés avec 25 000 décès dus au choléra.
Dans la province du Katanga, des épidémies se succèdent régulièrement depuis 1981.
Translation - English For the moment cholera continues to thrive as an endemo-epidemic in lakeside regions and in certain towns situated near lakes, and is often linked to populations being displaced because of political instability – for example, the arrival of a million Rwandan refugees in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo). This resulted in the most explosive outbreak of cholera ever seen in such a short period of time. Between 14th July and 15th August there were at least 36,000 confirmed cases of cholera resulting in 25,000 deaths.
In Katanga province epidemics have been occurring regularly since 1981.
French to English: A reward scheme which is irritating small shareholders. General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Business/Commerce (general)
Source text - French Les stock-options qui ont été accordées en 2002 aux dirigeants des sociétés présentes dans l’indice CAC 40 recèlent rarement des gains potentiels, constate stock-option.fr. En effet, le cours de l’action a souvent baissé depuis leur attribution. Cependant, la valeur de ces stock-options n’est pas nulle, le cours de l’action pouvant remonter tout au long de la vie de l’option – fréquemment dix ans.
Lors des dernières assemblées générales des sociétés, la baisse de la Bourse n’a donc pas empêché un feu d’artifice de critiques ou de commentaires aigres-doux des actionnaires sur la politique de stock-options vis-à-vis des cadres de direction. « Ce qui est choquant, c’est que certains dirigeants profitent de la chute de la Bourse pour remettre en place des plans d’options à des cours plus bas », s’insurge Fabrice Rémon, président du cabinet de défense des actionnaires minoritaires, Deminor.
Translation - English The share options granted in 2002 to directors of companies in the CAC 40 index have very little potential for profit, notes the website stock-option.fr. Indeed on many occasions the share price has fallen since the options were granted. Nevertheless those share options are not worthless, as the share price can recover over the life of the option (usually 10 years).
During the most recent round of company annual general meetings, therefore, the fall in the Stock Exchange was not enough to prevent an outburst of criticisms and bitter-sweet comments from shareholders regarding the policy of granting share options to senior executives. "What is shocking is that certain directors are taking advantage of the fall in the stock market by putting in place new option plans based on the lower prices," protests Fabrice Rémon, the president of Deminor, a company providing assistance to small investors.
Spanish to English: El puzle de la productividad y la competitividad General field: Bus/Financial
Source text - Spanish La rápida expansión de la economía española durante los últimos años no ha ocultado algunas debilidades importantes que amenazaban su continuidad, destacando entre ellas el lento avance de la productividad del trabajo, un asunto que los economistas hemos situado en el primer lugar de nuestras preocupaciones desde hace algo más de una década, cuando ingenuamente creímos haber encontrado las claves para la reducción del abultado desempleo.
Para muchos economistas españoles, el lento incremento de la productividad del trabajo no es sino el reflejo de la baja competitividad que subyacía a la expansión de la producción, ensombreciéndola y reflejando algunas otras debilidades importantes, como un excesivo apoyo en la construcción residencial. Esta idea tiene un fundamento sólido, cual es la fuerte asociación que existe a largo plazo entre el crecimiento económico y el avance en la productividad del trabajo. Sin embargo, esta asociación no siempre se produce en el corto plazo, en particular cuando tiene lugar un shock inmigratorio de la envergadura del experimentado por España.
Translation - English The rapid expansion of the Spanish economy in recent years has not concealed some significant weaknesses which have been threatening continued growth. Prominent among these has been the slow increase in industrial productivity, a topic which economists, myself included, have been placing at the forefront of our concerns for more than a decade – when, naively, we believed that we had found the key to reducing the upward trend in unemployment.
For many Spanish economists, the slow growth in industrial productivity merely reflects the underlying competitive weakness which is casting a shadow over any increase in production, and is an indication of other important weaknesses such as an excessive emphasis on residential construction. This suggestion is well-founded given the long-term relationship between economic growth and increased industrial productivity. Nonetheless this relationship is not always present in the short term, particularly when an economy is subjected to an “immigration shock” of the magnitude experienced by Spain.
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