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总结:Rajat Nag 写成了Ragat Nog
The Asian Development Bank was created in 1966, two years after the African Development Bank. Today both of them are talking about needed reforms to better serve their member countries. Last month we looked at the issues in Africa where there is still widespread need for development aid.
亚洲发展银行在非洲发展银行成立2年后的1966年成立。如今两家银行正在就更好地为其成员国服务所需的改革进行商讨。上月我们已经看到了非洲仍需要广泛发展援助的现状。
The situation is different for the Asia-Pacific area. The Asian Development Bank was created to raise money from rich industrial nations for loans to support economic growth. Now there are surpluses in Asia, and less and less need for those loans.
不过亚太地区的情况有些不同,亚发行的成立是为了从富裕工业国筹集贷款资金来扶持经济增长。如今的亚洲已有了盈余,并且也越来越不需要那些贷款了。
(Rajat Nag) is managing director general of the bank; we called him in Manila. He says the bank is debating how to deal with the two faces of Asia. Economic growth in many countries has been great, 10 percent a year in China, for example. The bank's members have about 2 trillion dollars in savings that could be invested. Yet more than six hundred million people in Asia are still without clean water.
Rajat Nag为亚发行总经理,我们给身在马尼拉的他打了电话,他表示该行正在商讨如何处理亚洲的这种两面性,亚洲许多国家的经济增长是非常迅速的,比如中国的增长速度为每年10%,该行的成员国已拥有了约2兆可用于投资的美金储备,然而有6亿多亚洲人民仍缺乏洁净的用水