These impoverished villages need financial help to buy vital inputs for farming and to invest in basic infrastructure such as roads and electrification. Instead, donor governments and the World Bank have insisted for years that impoverished countries cut financing to these villages, under the guise of promoting “macroeconomic stability” – a polite way of demanding debt repayment – and reflecting the ideological delusion that the private sector will step in.
这些贫困村庄需要经济援助来购买耕种所需的必要投入，以及投资公路和电力等基本的基础设施。然而，捐助国政府和世界银行多年来一直借口促进“宏观经济稳定”要求贫困国家削减对这些村庄的拨款——一种要求偿还债务的委婉做法——同时也反映了一种意识上的错觉，以为民间经济会自动介入。