That encourages exports and depresses spending at home. The result is a high level of net national saving, much of which ends up in central banks’ foreign-exchange reserves.

这就鼓励了出口并削减了本国的消费，同时导致国家储蓄净额升上高位，其中许多部分成为了央行的外汇储备。

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Crumbling power generation, paltry foreign-exchange reserves, near empty hotels, closed universities, a bankrupt national airline, lousy relations with the West (and, now, after the recent Bangkok embassy siege, with neighbor Thailand, too), insurgent skirmishes threatening to flare up again - and these are only at the top of the list.

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