In recommending in its 1999 report the incorporation of an EVI, the Committee had recognized that an index of economic vulnerability could give only a partial and proximate measure of the relative level of vulnerability of a country.
委员会在其1999年报告中建议采用经济脆弱性指数时认识到经济脆弱性指数只能局部地、大致地衡量一个国家的相对脆弱性。