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Economics focus: To give or forgive

机译：经济学重点：给予或原谅

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Misers may be disliked, but usurers are despised. This may explain the remarkable success of the long-running campaign by churches, charities and celebrities to have the debts of poverty-stricken countries written off. Even when aid budgets were especially tight-roughly speaking, from 1993 to 2001—the campaign shamed the governments of the G7 rich nations into cancelling much of their bilateral debt. Reluctant to give money to poor countries, rich countries' governments became equally chary of collecting debts from them. On June 11th, the debt-relief campaign won another triumph. At a meeting in London hosted by Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer and a strong advocate of debt relief, the finance ministers of the G8 (the G7 plus Russia) agreed to cancel all the debts that 18 heavily indebted poor countries owe to three multilateral lenders, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). The beneficiaries are Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia and 14 African countries. The debts in question have a face value of about $40 billion, on which an annual average of $1 billion-1.5 billion is paid in debt service. Nine other countries may benefit within a few years, and a further 11 would be eligible if their governments were not so inept and corrupt.
机译：可能不喜欢失败者，但是鄙视高利贷者。这可以解释教会，慈善机构和社会名流长期开展的运动的巨大成功，以免除贫穷国家的债务。即使在援助预算特别紧张的时候，从1993年到2001年，这场运动也使七国集团（G7）富裕国家的政府免除了大部分双边债务。富裕国家的政府不愿向穷国捐钱，同样也很乐意从穷国收取债务。 6月11日，减债运动又取得了胜利。在英国财政大臣兼债务减免的坚定倡导者戈登·布朗（Gordon Brown）主持的伦敦会议上，八国集团（G7和俄罗斯）的财长们同意免除18个重债穷国欠三个国家的所有债务。多边贷方，世界银行，国际货币基金组织（IMF）和非洲开发银行（AfDB）。受益者是圭亚那，洪都拉斯，尼加拉瓜，玻利维亚和14个非洲国家。这些债务的票面价值约为400亿美元，其中平均每年偿还债务10亿至15亿美元。其他九个国家可能会在几年内受益，如果他们的政府没有那么无能为力和腐败，还会有11个国家符合条件。

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