Or is it, as Alistair Darling, chancellor of the exchequer, argued in his Budget speech on Wednesday, just one of a number of hard-hit high-income countries?

• 抑或是像英国财政大臣阿利斯泰尔?达林(AlistairDarling)上周三在预算演说中所主张的那样，英国只是众多遭受重创的高收入国家之一？