The continent’s fastest-growing economies are those that have been willing and able to allow yawning external gaps from 2000 to 2013: 26% of GDP, on average, in Liberia, 17% in Mozambique, 14% in Chad, 11% in Sierra Leone, and 7% in Ghana. Rwanda’s current account has deteriorated steadily, with the deficit now exceeding 10% of GDP.
非洲的情况也类似。这片大陆上增长最快的经济体正是那些在2000—2013年能够忍受巨大外部赤字的经济体——利比里亚平均为GDP的26%；莫桑比克17%，乍得14%，塞拉利昂11%，加纳7%。卢旺达的经常项目稳步恶化，如今赤字已超过GDP的10%。