VOA慢速英語:世界銀行行長尋求發(fā)展銀行盟友

Slowing economic growth around the world is endangering the World Bank's goal of ending extreme poverty by the year 2030. That is what World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said recently. Mr. Kim said the goal remains within reach. But he thinks extreme poverty will disappear only if world leaders and financial and development agencies do their part.

世界經(jīng)濟增長放緩局勢正影響著世界銀行計劃在2030年解決極端貧困問題的目標。世界銀行行長Jim Yong Kim今日發(fā)表這一講話。Kim說這一目標依然觸手可及。但是他認為只有世界領導人和金融和發(fā)展機構能夠履行各自相應職務，極端貧困問題才能消失。

What exactly is extreme poverty? The United Nations says extreme poverty is a condition in which basic human needs are not being satisfied or met. These needs include having clean drinking water, food and an education.

什么是極端貧困?聯(lián)合國表示，極端貧困是人類基本的物質需求不能夠得到滿足。這些需求包括清潔用水，食物和教育。

Jim Yong Kim says there is good news. He says the world has made some progress toward reaching the goal.

Jim Yong Kim說現(xiàn)在有個好消息，就是世界現(xiàn)在就解決極端貧困問題已經(jīng)取得了一些進展。

"Over 25 years, we've gone from nearly two billion people living in extreme poverty to fewer than one billion."

在過去25年里，我們將近20億極端貧困人口數(shù)量降低到了不到十億。

Even with this progress, nearly one billion people continue to live on less than about $1.25 a day. Slowing economic growth in industrial and developing economies is affecting the fight against extreme poverty.

盡管工作取得一些成效，但是還是有近十億人口依然生活在每天不足1.25美元的條件下。工業(yè)和發(fā)展經(jīng)濟的放緩正影響著極端貧困問題的解決。

Mr. Kim suggests that one solution is to partner with new financial institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank.

Kim提議一個解決方案就是與新興的金融機構合作，例如亞洲基礎設施投資銀行和新興發(fā)展銀行。

"We at the World Bank Group see these development banks as potentially very strong allies in tackling the enormous challenge of bringing much needed infrastructure to the developing world."

我們在世界銀行集團看到這些發(fā)展銀行可以成為強大的盟友，來應對巨大的挑戰(zhàn)，向發(fā)展中國家提供必要的基礎設施建設。

Banking coalitions could help identify financing for transportation and other infrastructure needs that the World Bank alone cannot provide. Amy Studdart is with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

銀行聯(lián)盟可以幫助確定金融運輸系統(tǒng)，幫助世界銀行提供基礎設施資金需求，而世界銀行獨自無法解決這些問題。Amy Studdart從華盛頓特區(qū)戰(zhàn)略和國際研究中心發(fā)回報道。

"There's a huge infrastructure gap in Asia. The World Bank itself estimates that it was $2.5 trillion worth of investment that needs to happen in South Asia and South East Asia along."

亞洲存在非常巨大的基礎設施差距。世界銀行估計南亞地區(qū)和東南亞一帶需要2.5萬億美元的投資。

Many people are concerned that new lending agencies will reduce the influence of existing ones like the World Bank. But Mr. Kim says the issue is not influence.

許多人擔心新貸款機構可能會減少現(xiàn)存銀行的影響力，比如世界銀行。但是Kim說這種問題不存在。

"The fundamental issue for us is, your enemy cannot be other institutions. Your enemy has to be poverty."

對于我們來講根本問題是，你面臨的問題不是其他金融機構，你面臨的真正問題是貧困。

The World Bank is expected to consider those issues when world leaders meet at the United Nations later this year.

世界銀行希望今年晚些時候各國領導人在聯(lián)合國開會的時候能夠考慮這些問題。

I'm Mario Ritter.

Reporter Mil Arcega prepared this story for VOA. Mario Ritter wrote it for Learning English. George Grow was the editor.

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