In short, Latin American countries have used their additional export revenues to pay down debt and increase social spending. Both were necessary, but, with few exceptions, the region is not using the commodity windfall to do what it must: improve technological capacities sufficiently to ensure that future economic growth does not depend entirely on the fickle furtunes of finite natural resources.
简言之，拉美国家已经利用这笔额外出口收入偿还债务并追加社会开支。 这两种做法都很有必要，但除少数国家外，拉美国家并没有利用这笔商品横财完成必须要完成的任务： 那就是充分提高技术能力，确保未来的经济增长与有限自然资源的起起落落脱钩。