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The G20 countries could use their voting power at the IMF to insist it stores the data.
G20國可以利用它們在IMF的投票權堅持由其保存數據。
Their endorsement will have weight with the private sector, says Sonja Gibbs of the IIF.
IIF的索尼亞·吉布斯表示，他們的支持將對私營部門產生影響。
Although lenders benefit from knowing more about government debts,
盡管貸款人因更了解政府債務而獲益，
some are reluctant to share information they consider commercially sensitive.
但一些人不愿分享他們認為具有商業敏感性的信息。
They will need to be pressed to take part. "It will be a name and shame game,"
他們受到壓力才會參與。“這將是一場受到公開指責的游戲，”
says Mark Plant of the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank. "That sometimes works, it sometimes doesn't."
智囊團全球發展中心的馬克·普朗特說到。“有時候有用，有時候沒用。”
How to give the scheme bite? One proposal is that sovereign-loan contracts that are not publicly disclosed within 30 days of signature
如何刺激該項目？一項提議是，在簽署后30天內未公開披露的主權貸款合同
should be unenforceable in court. Most international loans are made under New York or English law—
應被裁定無法執行。大多數國際貸款是根據紐約或英國法律發放的—
as Mozambique's dodgy deals were—so tweaking the rules in those two jurisdictions would be a good start.
就像莫桑比克狡猾的交易一樣—因此，調整這兩個司法管轄區的規則將是一個良好的開端。
Case law and legal institutions are so well established that business would be unlikely to move elsewhere,
判例法和法制建立是非常完善的，因此企業不太可能遷往其他地方，
argues Tim Jones of Jubilee Debt Campaign, the British charity behind the idea.
這一想法背后的英國慈善機構禧年債務運動的蒂姆·瓊斯說到。
Some 51 MPs have written to the British chancellor to support Jubilee's proposal,
約51位議員致信英國財政大臣，支持禧年債務運動的提議，
among them former Labour and Conservative secretaries of state for international development.
其中就有負責國際發展事務的前工黨和保守黨國務卿。
On June 5th the Labour Party said it would implement the idea if it wins power.
6月5日，工黨表示如果贏得選舉將實施該想法。
Legal changes are not yet on the G20's agenda. But rising debts are fuelling a sense of urgency.
法律改革尚未列入G20議程。但不斷增加的債務正在加劇一種緊迫感。
The IMF reckons that 44% of low-income countries are in debt distress or at high risk of it—even without more nasty surprises.
IMF估計，44%的低收入國家正處于債務危機或高風險之中——即使沒有更糟糕的意外事件發生。
The average developing country's external-debt payments
發展中國家的平均外債付款
have risen from 6.6% of government revenue in 2010 to 12.2% in 2018, calculates Jubilee.
從2010年政府收入的6.6%增加至2018年12.2%，根據禧年債務運動的計算。
Clandestine debts could mean the actual picture is even worse.
秘密債務可能意味著實際情況更糟。
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