After a recent failed public debt auction, the authorities in Latvia are desperately trying to prevent a depreciation of the currency, the lat. The country's predicament is similar to the one that faced Argentina in 2000-2001: a severe recession driven by global financial shocks, a sudden drying up of capital inflows and the need to reduce a large external deficit worsened by an unsustainable currency peg.
在最近一次國債拍賣流拍後,拉脫維亞政府正拼命阻止本國貨幣拉特(Lat)貶值。該國所處的困境與2000年至2001年的阿根廷類似:全球金融危機引發嚴重衰退,資本流入突然枯竭,鉅額外部赤字亟待削減——不可持續的釘住匯率制正令外部赤字問題進一步惡化。
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