The Dutch disease, however, is one of the more intractable consequences of oil and resource wealth, at least for poor countries. In principle, it is easy to avoid currency appreciation: keep the foreign exchange earned from, say, oil exports out of the country.
然而，至少对于那些贫困的国家来说，'荷兰病'只不过是众多由石油和资源财富引起的棘手问题之一而已。一般来说，避免本币升值并不难：例如，可以不让从石油出口中赚得的外汇流回本国，先将这些钱投资到美国或欧洲，然后慢慢收回。但是在大多数发展中国家，这种政策被认为是用本国的财富帮助其他国家经济的发展。