The first is that the burden of disease among the poor is somehow inevitable and unavoidable, as if the poor are bound to get sick and die prematurely.

第一个是，穷人疾病的负担不管怎样都是不可避免的，好像穷人注定要得病过早死亡。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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That the Chinese and foreign partners of the joint venture have fully provided the investment required by contract and the payment has been verified- but the joint venture is hardly likely to survive because of poor management.

中外合营者已经按合营合同如期如数出资并经过验资，确因经营管理不善而难以维持 的合营企业。

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They are all poor, buffeted by natural disasters – especially floods, droughts, and earthquakes – and have rapidly growing populations that are pressing on the capacity of the land to feed them.

它们都很贫穷，饱受自然灾 害之苦—特别是洪水、干旱和地震—并且都有着急速增长的人口，给土地的承载力带来巨大的压力。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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It is hard, at least for me, to envision alternative political arrangements or economic policies over the past fifty years that would have transferred any significant portion of the wealth of today’s rich nations to today’s poor nations.

至少对于我来说，很难设想在过去五十年中有什么其他政治制度或者经济政策可以将当今富有国家的财富主要部分转移到今天的穷国中。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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But many such judgments will be poor ones without effective scientific input.

但如果没有科学家的参与，很多这样的决策质量都无法保证。

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On the supply side, there must be more support for poor farmers in drug-producing countries to give them viable alternatives to growing coca.

在供应方面，必须对毒品生产国的贫困农民提供支持，给予他们种植古柯之外的其它可行的替代方案。

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Research undertaken by the Copenhagen Consensus shows that an excellent approach would be to devote more money to providing the micronutrients that are lacking in poor communities’ diets.

《哥本哈根共识》进行的研究显示最佳方法是投入更多资金，提供贫困人口日常饮食中所缺乏的微量营养素。

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Moreover, it may well hurt other poor countries – thereby worsening inequality – by encouraging resources to be allocated to activities that become uncompetitive following the next World Trade Organization agreement.

而且，这也可能在下一个世界贸易组织协议通过之后通过鼓励资源分配到并不具有竞争力的活动中而打击其他贫穷国家，从而加剧不平等现象。

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But poor countries typically lack the funds needed to pay such a team’s fees.

但穷国通常负担不起如此巨额的费用。

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If the Bank provides grants to poor countries to help small peasant farmers gain access to improved inputs, then it will be possible for those countries to increase their food production in a short period of time.

如果世界银行向贫困国家提供赠款，帮助小农改善自身的农资投入，那么那些国家就有可能在短期内实现粮食产量增加的目标。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Foreign employers are appalled by the poor quality of Thailand’s education system, whose graduates have little foreign language proficiency and possess scant analytical skills.

泰国教育系统的低劣质量令外国雇主惊骇万分，大学毕业生几乎没有多少语言能力，分析研究能力也非常欠缺。

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Malaria can be brought under decisive control through bed nets, indoor spraying of insecticides, and making medicines freely available to poor people in malaria-prone villages.

人们可以通过蚊帐、室内喷洒杀虫剂以及向容易遭受霍乱侵袭的村庄的穷人免费提供药物来决定性控制霍乱。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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The only other kinsman whom we have been able to trace was Rodger Baskerville, the youngest of three brothers of whom poor Sir Charles was the elder. The second brother, who died young, is the father of this lad Henry.

在他的亲属之中，我们唯一能够追溯到的另一个人就是罗杰·巴斯克维尔了。他是兄弟三个之中最年轻的一个，查尔兹爵士是最年长的一个，年轻时就死了的二哥就是亨利这孩子的父亲。

Conan Doyle, Arthur / The Hound of the Baskervilles柯南 道尔 / 巴斯克维尔猎犬

巴斯克维尔猎犬

柯南 道尔

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Conan Doyle, Arthur

© 1901, 1902 by A. Conan Doyle

To understand what is going on, we need a different explanation of what keeps investment and growth low in most poor nations.

为了理解所发生的事情，我们需要对在大多数穷国保持投资和经济增长有一个不同的解释。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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In China, a 10% higher price would reduce consumption by 5% and raise enough excise revenue to pay for a basic health package for 33 million poor rural Chinese.

在中国，提高价格10%将会减少消费5%并且增加足够的国内税收来为三千三百万贫穷的农村人口提高基本医疗。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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