The rural communities of southwest karst desertification areas are the areas where are the poorest population, the most serious poverty degree, and the most prominent environment degenerate.

其中西南喀斯特石漠化地区的农村社区是中国贫困人口最集中，贫困程度最严重，环境退化最突出的地方。

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In three out of four of 24 OECD countries surveyed, inequalities between the richest 10 percent of the population and the poorest 10 percent grew.

对24个OECD成员国的全面考察表明，四分之三的国家中，最富的10%和最穷的10%的国民之间的差距加大了。

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The health of prisoners is among the poorest of any population group and the apparent inequalities pose both a challenge and an opportunity for country health systems.

囚犯的健康是任何群体中健康情况最差的，这种明显的不平等现象对国家卫生系统既是挑战又是机遇。

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The study also showed that the income of the poorest population was approaching, in relative terms, the international poverty line over the period: the distance between the income of the poorest and the poverty line was reduced from 6% to 2.3%.

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The poorest quintile of the population is shown to earn 9% less in real terms than in 1977.

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From the poorest quarter of the population, only 12% of students attend university - the same as last year - and well below the national average.

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