The G-8 countries’ agreement last year to a debt write-off for the 18 poorest states – 16 in Africa and two in Latin America – is a splendid, but insufficient, beginning. The 100 most indebted countries still find the burden of servicing their collective $2.3 trillion in official debt increasingly hard to bear, leaving them hard put to finance national programs spelled out by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), which seek to halve global poverty by 2015.
去年签署的八国集团协定同意免除18个最贫困国家的债务¾这18个国家中的16个来自非洲，另外两个来自拉美。这份协议开了个好头，但是还远远不够。100个负债最沉重的国家仍然很难偿还它们共计2.3万亿美元的官方债务，它们感到债务负担越来越重，这使它们在面对联合国千年发展目标（MDG）的国家财政计划时几乎陷入了困境。这项计划力争在2015年实现将全球贫困减少一半的目标。