This amounted to a 6.6% proportionate annual rate of poverty reduction-the difference between the growth rates of the number of poor and the total population.

这相当于年减贫率为6.6%——总人口增长率与贫困人口增长率之差。

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By 2008 key water and soil erosion control projects had covered a total area of 260000 sq km with 70 percent of such areas put under control and a silt reduction rate of 40% or more.

截至2008年，重点防治工程共治理水土流失面积26万平方公里，已实施重点区域治理的水土流失治理程度达到70%，减沙率达40%以上。

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The third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to 1.25 percentage points.

WSJ: India Cuts Policy Rate

The RBI's third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to one and a quarter percentage points.

WSJ: India Cuts Policy Rate