He points out that Taiwan has no foreign debt, and its private sector enterprises have an average debt to equity ratio of less than 40 % --a very different situation from that in the countries worst affected by the crisis, in which both the public and private sectors have long had a heavy debt burden. In particular, thanks to strict auditing standards, ROC financial institutions 'bad debt ratio is only 4 %.
他指出，台灣沒有外債、民間企業的平均自有資金比例達到百分之六十以上，和受災國家長期以來不分政府民間都大舉借貸不同；尤其拜金檢嚴格之賜，金融機構的壞帳比例不過百分之四。