20. 参加小组讨论者强调调动国际资源促进非洲发展的极端重要性 并指出非洲经委会在 1998年和 1999年举行的两次部长级会议专门讨论了这个问题 由于本国储蓄很少 非洲产品缺乏竞争力 产生足够外汇的能力有限 外债负担和官方发展援助缩减 如果外部援助没有大幅度增加 这个区域如非不可能也是很难在这里 2015 年实现将贫穷减半的国际目标 由于该区域严重依赖进口发展因素 例如技术 资本货物原料和备件 这种情况就更为复杂
20. Panellists underscored the critical importance of mobilizing international resources for Africa’s development, and pointed out that ECA devoted the last two ministerial conferences, in 1998 and 1999, to this issue. Given the low levels of domestic savings, the lack of competitiveness of African products and their limited capacity to generate sufficient foreign exchange, the debt burden and declining ODA flows, it will be difficult if not impossible for the region to meet the international target of reducing poverty by half by 2015 without a substantial increase in external assistance. This is compounded by the region’s heavy dependence on imported development factors, such as technology, capital goods, raw materials and spare parts.