{"id":4024,"date":"2013-01-20T06:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2023-01-08T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:23:53","slug":"ben-21-business-trends-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/20\/ben-21-business-trends-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"BEN 21 &#8211; Business Trends for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4024-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEN21-Trends-2013.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEN21-Trends-2013.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEN21-Trends-2013.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4027 size-large aligncenter\" title=\"business-trends-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/small-business-trends-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Business Trends for 2013\" width=\"590\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/small-business-trends-2013.jpg 640w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/small-business-trends-2013-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this <a title=\"Business English News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/business-news\/\">Business English News<\/a> lesson, we take a look at the prospects for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>As the world rang in 2013, many analysts and commentators feel that it&#8217;s time to pull out the crystal ball and try to determine what&#8217;s in store in the coming 12 months. As the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria explains, there&#8217;s still a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n<p>The world economy is far from being out of the woods. The US \u201d\u02dcdebt ceiling debate&#8217;, if it materializes, could tip an already weak economy into recession, while failure to solve the euro area crisis could lead to a major financial shock and global downturn. Governments must act decisively, using all the tools at their disposal to turn confidence around and boost growth and jobs.<\/p>\n<p>[tp no_translate=&#8221;y&#8221;]<strong>Free Resources: <a href=\"\/quiz\/BEN21SN-2013-Trends.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PDF Transcript<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/quiz\/BEN21-Pub\/player.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Online Practice<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEN21-Trends-2013.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast MP3<\/a><\/strong>[\/tp]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn Business English vocabulary for discussing business trends and markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","powered_cache_disable_cache":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45,26,5,46],"tags":[231,152,224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19537,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/19537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}