Economics is the study of how people choose to use scarce or limited productive resources.

经济学研究人们如何进行抉择，以使用稀缺的或有限的生产性资源。

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enhance women’s access to productive resources (e.g., through joint land titling as in Ethiopia);

增加妇女获得生产资源的机会（比如像在埃塞俄比亚通过实行土地权联名制）；

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It means that on the production side, there is maximum pressure to conserve the use of those scarce productive resources.

它意味着生产一方受到最大限度的压力要它节约使用有限的生产资源。

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But the general approaches--investing in productive resources, opening up to competition and restructuring, properly promoting exports, maintaining stable and reliable public policy--attend all successes.

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Credit and lending is simply a mechanism to efficient allocate scarce resources to productive sources.

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In contrast, states in the South and parts of the Plains tend to pour their public resources into productive uses.

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