19. 斯蒂格利茨先生(哥伦比亚大学教授)说，美国和欧洲国家在不产生通货膨胀压力的情况下有相当大的消费能力。随后产生的任何通货膨胀上升问题都可以通过尚未利用的税收措施来抵消，这些措施包括碳税、数码税和财富税，以及货币政策工具。令人担忧的主要原因是，这些国家可能消费不足。2009 年，中国经济的强劲增长在 2008 年金融危机后重振世界经济方面发挥了关键作用。在目前的情况下，不太可能发挥这样的作用，这使得有能力这样做的发达国家更加需要为重建得更好而消费。自 2008 年以来，在打击严重损害发达国家收入基础的多国公司的避税和逃税以及秘密避税地问题等方面取得了一些进展，但还不够。
19. Mr. Stiglitz (Professor, Columbia University) said that the United States and European countries had considerable capacity to spend without inflationary pressure. Any subsequent rise in inflation could be counteracted with tax measures that had yet to be tapped, including carbon, digital and wealth taxes, and monetary policy tools. The main source of concern was that such countries might not spend enough. In 2009, strong economic growth in China had played a key role in resuscitating the world economy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. It was unlikely to play such a role in the current situation, making it all the more important for advanced countries with the capacity to do so to spend on building back better. Some progress, but not enough, had been made since 2008 in combating tax avoidance and evasion by multinational corporations and the problem of secrecy havens, which had severely undermined the revenue bases of advanced countries.