Quality of Life in Iraq Still Poor 伊拉克贫困依旧 Virginia-based Dr. Ali Al-Attar left his native Iraq at the onset of Iran-Iraq war. At that time, he says, most Iraqis lived a middle-class lif

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The head of the World Health Organization urged Asian health chiefs to continue health-care reforms despite the global economic downturn. Margaret Chan(陈冯富珍) says the WHO is working to give poorer nations access vaccines to fight the H1N1 flu p

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减少贫困与其说是科学,不如说是试验猜测。而缺少援助产生的影响的相关数据,带来到底该怎样提供援助的问题。但是卡拉克奖得主Esther Duflo讨论哪些努力是有帮助哪些可能有害通过随机化

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Hans Rosing 教授用他的超酷的数据库软件展示世界各国摆脱贫困的历程;他带来的美元街展示了不同收入人群的居住条件;不要错过了他在结束前的惊人演出。

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08 秘鲁新总统--从贫困中崛起的经济学家 Peru's New Leader Rose From Poverty to Power Bill Rodgers Lima 4 Jun 2001 22:15 UTC Alejandro Toledo, a former shoe-shine boy turned 1)economist,

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应对气候变化以消除极端贫困 Next an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government. 下面的社论反映了美国政府的观点。 Climate change is the defining issue of our time, because it affects nearly every aspect

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Science and Technolgy. 科技。 Social status and health. 社会地位与健康。 Misery index. 贫困指数。 Low social status is bad for your health. Biologists are starting to understand why. 社会地位低对身体不好,生物学家开始理

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Free exchange Penury portrait 贫困的历史画像 The consensus on raising people out of poverty is surprisingly recent 直到最近人们才就脱贫问题达成共识,实在令人惊讶 Jul 27th 2013 |From the print edition ON JULY 17th India r

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GWEN IFILL: Today marks 50 years since the United States declared a war on poverty, but victory has not yet been declared. Kwame Holman has the backstory. KWAME HOLMAN: When President Lyndon Johnson took the stage for his first State of the Union add

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纽约市政府出台新政策,政府将向低收入非裔家庭提供免费的助产服务,已改善这些家庭的新生儿高死亡率。 Amadoma Bediako is a retired grade school teacher. But she's still dispensing plenty of information - the

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Authorities and aid workers have found traffickers' boats carrying as many Bangladeshis as Rohingya, the persecuted Muslim minority fleeing Myanmar. Since early May, more than 3,600 people have landed in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Half are fro

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TIRANA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Statistics Institute of Albania (INSTAT) reported on Thursday that poverty in Albania has increased due to the global financial crisis and the general macro-economic situation of low economic growth since 2008. Accord

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has set himself an ambitious target. He wants to lift all 70 million people living in less than a dollar a day out of poverty within the next five years. That is roughly a million people coming out of poverty every month

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今天我们要学的词是poverty。 Poverty, 是贫困的意思。To sink into poverty, 意思是陷入贫困。To fight poverty, 意思是打击贫困。美国人口普查局公布的最新数字显示,美国去年的贫困人口率出现下降,

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演讲简介:Hans Rosing 教授用他的超酷的数据库软件展示世界各国摆脱贫困的历程;他带来的美元街展示了不同收入人群的居住条件;不要错过了他在结束前的惊人演出。

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Science and technology 科学技术 Social status and health 社会地位与健康 Misery index 贫困指数 Low social status is bad for your health. Biologists are starting to understand why 社会地位低对身体不好,生物学家开始理解此

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Finance and economics 财经商业 Reforming the World Bank 世界银行,亟待重整 Zen and the art of poverty reduction 禅宗思想及扶贫艺术 Calm and confusion at the world's biggest development institution 世界最大发展机构平静与

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Leaders 社论 Minimum wages 最低工资标准 The logical floor 多少才合理 Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊,但是它们应该由技术

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Poverty, crime and education 贫困、犯罪与教育 The paradox of the ghetto 贫民窟的悖论 Unnervingly, poor children seem to fare better in poor neighbourhoods 令人奇怪的是,穷人家的孩子若是生活在贫困区域,表现反而更

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7月16日,世界银行集团行长金墉与中国财政部部长楼继伟就设立一笔5000万美元的信托基金助力减少贫困签署协议。 请看相关报道: World Bank Group (WBG) and China signed an agreement here on July 16 to set

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