Between 2000 and 2008, the ratio of foreign debt to GDP dropped from 37% to 20% in Latin America and from 28% to 17% in emerging Asia, but jumped from 45% to 51% in central and eastern Europe.

在2000到2008年间，就外债占总gdp的比例来说：拉丁美洲国家从37%减少到了20%；新兴亚洲国家从28%降到了17%；但是中欧和东欧国家从45%上升到了51%。

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Turkey may also be heading for trouble. Its debt-service payments due in 2009 amount to 80% of its foreign reserves, the highest ratio of any big emerging economy.

土耳其也有可能遭遇经济困境，其债务偿还将在09年到期，占外汇储备的80%，是所有大型新兴经济体负债率最高的国家。

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The IMF reckons that Portugal's net international debt (what residents owe to foreigners, less the foreign assets they own) was 96% of GDP in 2008, an even higher ratio than Greece's (see chart 3).

国际货币基金组织(IMF)估计葡萄牙的净国际债务(用其居民欠外国人得减去归他们所有的外国资产)在2008年达到了GDP的96%，这个比例甚至比希腊的都高。

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That seems reasonable, since the main reason that Thailand's currency, the baht, collapsed two years ago was a high ratio of short-term foreign debt to foreign reserves.

ECONOMIST: The IMF and East Asia