到去年年底,南斯拉夫欠西方的外债为183亿美元,波兰欠西方外债则达392亿美元。多年来这两个国家为偿还外债的到期本金和利息尽了最大努力,但外债状况没有多大改善。沉重的外债负担已严重影响这两个东欧国家的经济发展。对发展中国家来说,为了加快本国经济建设的步伐,当今举借外债几乎是不可避免的。但借来的 By the end of last year, the foreign debt Yugoslavia owed the West was 18.3 billion U.S. dollars and Poland’s foreign debt to the West reached 39.2 billion U.S. dollars. Over the years, the two countries have tried their best to repay outstanding principal and interest on foreign debt, but the external debt situation has not improved much. The heavy burden of foreign debt has seriously affected the economic development of the two eastern European countries. To developing countries, borrowing foreign debts today is almost inevitable in order to speed up the pace of economic construction in their own country. But borrowed