(3). Rich countries are racing to dematerialise payments. They need to do more to prepare for the side-effects
发达国家竞相使用电子支付。应做好准备应对随之而来的副作用
(4). 1:For the past 3,000 years, when people thought of money they thought of cash. 2:From buying food to settling bar tabs, day-today dealings involved creased paper or clinking bits of metal. 3:Over the past decade, however, digital payments have taken off— tapping your plastic on a terminal or swiping a smartphone has become normal. 4:Now this revolution is about to turn cash into an endangered species in some rich economies. 5:That will make the economy more efficient—but it also poses new problems that could hold the transition hostage.
(5). 1:Countries are eliminating cash at varying speeds. 2:But the direction of travel is clear, and in some cases the journey is nearly complete. 3:In Sweden the number of retail cash transactions per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years. 4:Cash accounts for just 6% of purchases by value in Norway. 5:Britain is probably four or six years behind the Nordic countries. 6:America is perhaps a decade behind. 7:Outside the rich world, cash is still king. 8:But even there its dominance is being eroded. 9:In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.