If the G-8 leaders are serious about helping poor countries, finding a reliable way to support grant aid and promote accountability for donors and recipients, not debt relief, is the place to start. If the political will were there, it would be neither difficult nor expensive to restructure aid agencies like the World Bank and the regional development banks as grants-only agencies.
简言之，免债魔咒的根本问题在于它着眼过去、而不是未来。如果八国集团领袖真的想对贫困国家施以援手，就应该找到支持无偿赠款的可靠方法，提高捐助国和受援国的责任感，而不是减免什么债务。如果有了这样的政治意愿，把世界银行和地区发展银行改组为只提供赠款的机构并不困难，代价也不高昂。