Bank foreign debt quota: SAFE has significantly cut short-term foreign debt quota limits.

银行外债限额：SAFE已经明显地减少了对短期外债限额的限制。

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As a rule of thumb, a country should have enough reserves to cover its short-term foreign debt.

根据一项简单的法则，一国的外汇储备应足以偿付其短期外债。

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Old rules of thumb which said that countries should keep enough reserves to cover only short-term foreign debt now look hopelessly out of date.

过去粗浅的经验——国家应该维持足够的外汇储备来应付仅仅是短期的外债——现在看来绝望又过时。

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Its foreign-exchange reserves are now four times as large as its short-term foreign debt, and it has a current-account surplus.

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By then, interest rates were beginning to fall, capital outflows were slowing and some short-term foreign debt was being repaid or restructured.

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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.

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