This single step would be huge for most poor countries, and make very little difference to developed nations.
单单这一步就会对贫穷的国家产生巨大助益,而对发达国家却影响甚微。
For most poor countries, the "fast start" financing is only a minor part of the assistance they have been demanding.
对于多数穷国来说,“快速启动”资金仅构成它们所要求援助的一小部分。
Yet for many countries, with such a large share of households living precariously near the poverty line, it is the poor and vulnerable who need protection most.
但对多数国家来说,生活在贫困线边缘的家庭在总人口中占了很大比例。这些贫困和脆弱的人口是最需要保护的。
For skeptics who believe that social programs never work in poor countries and that most of what's spent on them gets stolen, conditional cash transfer programs offer a convincing rebuttal.
有些人认为,即便有好的项目,在贫穷的国家实施也会很困难,大量的支出可能被贪污掉。“有条件现金转移支付计划”对此作出了强有力的驳斥。
At the heart of the Kyoto protocol is the simple principle that the industrialised world bears the legal responsibility for global warming and that poor countries will suffer most of its consequences.
《京都议定书》的核心是一个简单的原理:工业化国家承担全球变暖的法律责任,贫穷国家将遭受其后果的最大折磨。
That was not enough for some 70 poor and low-lying countries, most faced with rising waters and withering crops.
但这对那70多个贫穷地势偏低的国家来说,这远远不够,他们中大多数面临着河面上升,庄稼枯萎的威胁。
Many of the countries that stand to gain most relative to their size, though, are poor and small: Barbados, Mauritius and the Seychelles, for instance.
然而,很多坚持要获得最大的相关面积的国家,是一些小而穷的国家:例如,巴巴多斯、毛里求斯和塞舌尔。
JEFFREY SACHS is an American economist best known for his prescriptions for economically diseased poor countries. The country he now considers most in need of his diagnostic gifts is his own.
美国经济学家杰弗里·萨克斯以其为经济严重受损的贫穷国家开的各种处方闻名,而今最需要他来诊断却是自己的祖国。
JEFFREY SACHS is an American economist best known for his prescriptions for economically diseased poor countries. The country he now considers most in need of his diagnostic gifts is his own.
美国经济学家杰弗里·萨克斯以其为经济严重受损的贫穷国家开的各种处方闻名,而今最需要他来诊断却是自己的祖国。
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