广播电视英语短句 第 94 课：小额信贷-5

Its creator, Chuck Waterfield, calls it "an industry-based truth-in-lending effort." 其发明人，查克·沃特菲尔德称之为“一项有产业基础的、诚实贷款的努力”。

Borrowers, he says, are often misled about the true price of a loan. 他说，借款人对于贷款真实价格的了解经常被误导。

"For twenty years we set the price to cover the cost. Now, some organizations are setting the price to whatever they can get away with," he says. “ 20 年来，我们设定的价格是为了抵消成本。现在，一些机构正设定一个他们能够赚钱的价格。”

The first step is to publish information collected from eight countries. 第一步就是要发布从 8 个国家收集来的信息。

Chuck Waterfield says information from Peru, Bosnia and Cambodia will appear in February at the Web site mftransparency.org. 查克·沃特菲尔德说明年 2 月会在 mftransparency.org 网站发布来自秘鲁、波斯尼亚及柬埔寨的信息。

He says the others, including at least one country from Africa, will follow a few months later. 其他国家，包括至少一个非洲国家的信息，会在稍后几个月发布。