一个赤贫的世界与一个繁荣的世界并存着。在世界银行看来,世界上的穷人有7.5亿人;而在经合组织看来,世界有10亿多人口处于贫困状态。给贫困下定义比给富裕下定义难得多,因而贫困人口的数字很不相同。但有一点可以肯定,这就是至少有7亿人每天在和饥饿作斗争。根据经合组织开发援助委员会的资料,这些人中的大多数之所以处于营养不良状态,并非由于饥荒或冲突和战争(尽管这仍是一个严重问题),而是由于他们缺乏资本:土地、工具、基本教育和工作。他们生活在贫困 An abject world coexists with a prosperous world. To the World Bank, there are 750 million people in the world who are poor, while in OECD there are more than 1 billion people in the world in poverty. Defining poverty is much more difficult than defining wealth, so the numbers of poor people are very different. But one thing is certain: at least 700 million people struggle with hunger every day. According to the OECD Development Assistance Committee, most of these people are malnourished not because of famine or conflict and war (though that’s still a serious problem) but because of their lack of capital: land, tools , Basic education and work. They live in poverty