瑟利夫夫人在哈佛大学2011年毕业典礼上的演讲(9)

Instability and years of conflict in Liberia have pushed us to the bottom of this table in terms of the size of our middle class. We stubbornly refuse to accept this and are

preparing a new development agenda that aims, through proper allocation of our natural resources, to graduate Liberia from development assistance in 10 years, and propels us to a middle-income country by 2030.

如果以中产阶级的人数衡量，利比里亚处在非洲的最底端，这是动荡和内乱导致的。我们绝不接受这种地位，正在准备一个新的发展规划，通过合理地分配我们的自然资源，争取用10年时间结束国际援助，到2030年使利比里亚成为一个中等收入国家。

As Africa charts its economic path, we are taking advantage of South-South partnerships as China, India, and Brazil, not to mention Nigeria and Ghana, become more significant partners in our economic expansion. Their experience is closer to ours, and our cooperation going forward will be crucial.

非洲正在选择它的经济道路，除了与尼日利亚、加纳进行经济合作以外，我们还充分利用与中国、印度、巴西的南南合作，它们日益成为对我们经济增长意义重大的伙伴。它们的经历与我们相似，我们之间进一步的合作将非常关键。

Even as the African renaissance appears on course, we must recognize that some of this progress is driven by the same forces of commodity demand that led to temporary gains four decades ago. We are the source of raw materials, now to India and China as well as the Western world, yet we generate the least profits from these exhaustible resources. Moreover, we remain vulnerable to external price shocks and receive very little transfer of technology, or growth in related industries. Until we begin to make products to sell, build better road and rail systems, and improve the easy movement of people and goods across our borders; until we supply the engineers and geologists and marketers of our resources, our middle class will remain stunted.

即使非洲的复兴看来理所当然，我们必须认识到，一部分经济增长来源于全球旺盛的商品需求，这种事情40年前发生过一次，只导致了一些暂时的增长。我们以前是西方国家的原材料来源，现在是中国和印度的原材料来源，但是我们从不可再生资源当中只获得了最微薄的利润。而且，我们对外部价格波动一直非常脆弱，引进的新技术或者相关工业的增长寥寥无几。只有我们能够生产出可销售的产品，修筑出更好的公路和铁路体系，培养出我们自己的开发资源的工程师、地质学家、销售员，我们的中产阶级才能持续成长。

In spite of these needs, and the fundamental economics of resource extraction,

everywhere I travel in Africa, I see signs of a continent rising. We are producing more, manufacturing more, trading more, and cooperating more. Words like accountability,

transparency, and reform are not just the calling card of some foreign donor; they are the words that must adjudicate closed-door decisions for those governments in Africa that seek re-election. There is a growing consensus on these issues, giving me great optimism