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The study also concluded that "The candidate countries should greatly benefit from enlargement thanks to a more efficient allocation of resources, greater investment and higher productivity growth." The study estimates that "accession could increase the average annual growth rate of the [accession countries] during the period 2000—2009 by between 1.3 and 2.1 percentage points," depending on whether additional reforms are undertaken.

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According to the EU study, the candidate countries should greatly benefit from enlargement thanks to a more efficient allocation of resources, greater investment and higher productivity. But the key is whether the candidate nations will implement further reforms.

据欧盟的研究,得益于更有效的资源分配、更多的投资以及更高的生产率,申请国会从扩盟中大大地受益,但关键是申请国能否进一步地实施改革。