Poverty – which had been dropping across East Asia at an unprecedented rate of 9 percent a year in the five years before the crisis – started spiraling upwards again.

在危机前本来连续五年以每年9％的空前速度下降的贫困率又开始扶摇直上。

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Thanks to spiraling inflation in higher education, our college completion rate is now 15 percentage points below that of Canada.

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