Another problem with the emphasis on aid (in addition to the near impossibility of accurately measuring the scale of the flows from all sources) is that the political effort to increase it absorbs attention that would be better spent on a more powerful instrument of economic development: trade.
另外一个对援助问题的关注焦点 （除了精确计算来自各渠道的资金规模的不可能性之外）在于，为增加援助的政治努力吸引了一部分注意力，而它们本该用于一个能使经济发展的更为有力的手段——贸易。