We must point out that high cash reserves in DC is a favourable factor. But
due to the unfeasibility of many of the projects generally considered sapped by
endemic corruption in politically immature countries, this advantage has become,
in many cases, a trap ensnaring their potential in external debt. In 2000, the annual
payments to service debt were 0.25 billion euros; the annual aid to development
was 0.05 billion euros.