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Towards the end of poverty（终结贫困）
Nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years. The world should aim to do the same again 。IN HIS inaugural（就职） address（演讲） in 1949 Harry Truman said that "more than half the people in the world are living in conditions approaching（临近） misery（痛苦）. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve（缓解） the suffering of those people." It has taken much longer than Truman hoped, but the world has lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting people out of extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, their number fell by half as a share of the total population in developing countries, from 43% to 21%—a reduction of almost 1 billion people。
世界的下一个重大飞跃走向贫困的终结
20年中，近10亿人摆脱了极端贫困。世界应以1949年为首。哈里·杜鲁门（Harry Truman）说：“世界上有一半以上的人生活在遭受苦难的环境中。人类历史上第一次拥有缓解这种情况的知识和技能。这些人的苦难。”它花费了比杜鲁门希望的时间更长的时间，但是最近，世界在使人们摆脱极端贫困方面取得了非凡的进步。在1990年至2010年期间，其数量在发展中国家总人口中所占比例下降了一半，从43％降至21％，减少了近10亿。
Now the world has a serious chance to redeem（挽回） Truman's pledge（承诺） to lift the least fortunate. Of the 7 billion people alive on the planet, 1.1 billion subsist（生存） below the internationally accepted extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a day. Starting this week and continuing over the next year or so, the UN's usual Who's Who of politicians and officials from governments and international agencies will meet to draw up a new list of targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)（千年发展目标）, which were set in September 2000 and expire（期满） in 2015. Governments should adopt as their main new goal the aim of reducing by another billion the number of people in extreme poverty（极端贫困） by 2030. Nobody in the developed world comes remotely close to the poverty level that $1.25 a day represents. America's poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier。
现在，世界上有很大的机会兑现杜鲁门（Truman）解除最不幸的承诺。在地球上生活的70亿人口中，有11亿人的生活水平低于国际公认的每天1.25美元的极端贫困线。从本周开始，持续到明年左右，联合国通常的政要人物以及来自政府和国际机构的官员将开会，制定新的目标清单，以取代千年发展目标（MDG）。 2000年9月，至2015年到期。各国政府应通过其主要新目标，是到2030年将极端贫困人口再减少10亿。这是发达国家中没有人能远接近每天1.25美元代表的贫困水平。美国的贫困线是一个四口之家每天63美元。在新兴世界的较富裕地区，每天4美元是贫困壁垒。
But poverty's scourge（灾难 苦难的根源） is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries' own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences（差异） in purchasing power（购买力）): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty（极差的）, brutish（野兽般的） and short. They lack not just education, health care, proper clothing and shelter—which most people in most of the world take for granted（认为是理所当然的）—but even enough food for physical and mental health. Raising people above that level of wretchedness（可怜悲催不幸） is not a sufficient ambition for a prosperous planet, but it is a necessary one. The world's achievement in the field of poverty reduction（贫困减小） is, by almost any measure, impressive. Although many of the original MDGs—such as cu
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