The report presents two scenarios for progress in reducing the number of people living in extreme povertymeasured as the equivalent of living on less than a dollar a dayover the next 10 years.

报告对未来10年减少极贫人口（按照每天生活费不足一美元的衡量标准）的进度提出两种预测。

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For the first time in decades output per hour fell, reducing the input of Labour by the equivalent of 1m people.

每小时产出在数十年来首度下降，劳动力投入降幅相当于100万人。

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By reducing energy intensity alone, China can save 620 million tons of standard coal in the five-year period, equivalent to cutting 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

仅通过降低能耗一项，中国5年内可以节省能源6 . 2亿吨标准煤，相当于少排放15亿吨二氧化碳。

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It's true that the Fed's success in reducing inflation has been the equivalent of a major tax cut.

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This would be a substantial improvement, equivalent broadly to reducing the amount of corruption in China to that of Hong Kong, or from that in Argentina to the amount in Spain.

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But reducing government spending does the opposite and is the functional equivalent of raising taxes.

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