Keeping a shop in this village is not a paying proposition, ie not profitable .

在这个村子里开设商店是一桩亏本的买卖。

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Money fled that money-losing proposition to unofficial lenders paying higher rates for deposits because they were charging, not the official 6.5% rate for a loan, but 30% to 70%.

资金之所以逃离亏本行业，逃向存款利率更高的非官方放贷处，是因为它们给付的利息不是官方贷款的6.5%，而是30 - 70%。

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Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist, has invested more than $6m to test the proposition that paying pupils can improve poor schools.

来自哈佛的经济学家罗兰德.福莱尔已经花费6百万美元以验证金钱奖励可以改善小学生学习成绩的假设。

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