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| The Multidimensional Poverty Index takes into account issues such as health and education and whether or not people have access to clean water and electricity. |
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多维贫穷指数考虑了卫生，教育，民众能否获得清洁水和电力等因素。 |
| Sabina Alkire is director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and she co-created the new index. |
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牛津大学贫困与人类发展中心(OPHI)主任萨比娜·阿尔凯尔是该指数的创始人之一。 |
| "One striking feature is that most of the poor people live in South Asia – 51 percent of the 1.7 billion people |
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“其中一个显著特点是，大多数贫困人口居住在南亚——其中51%的人居住在亚洲大陆。 |
| that we have identified as poor are resident in that continent,And it is not only the number, but also the intensity." |
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我们共鉴定了17 亿人口为贫困人口，不只是数目，强度也非常引人注目。” |
| She says about one-quarter of the world's poor live in Africa, according to the MPI. |
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她表示，按照MPI 来看，世界上大约四分之一的贫困人口居住在非洲。 |
| "When we compare the 26 poorest countries of Africa with states in India that have the same intensity of deprivation, |
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“当我们拿非洲26 个最贫困的国家与印度同样匮乏程度的州相比时， |
| we find there are more poor people with this intensity of deprivation in India than in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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我们会发现，在同样的匮乏程度下，印度的贫困人口超过撒哈拉以南非洲。 |
| And that is quite striking," Alkire adds. |
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这是非常引人注目的。” |
| Alkire says the new Index paints a different and sometimes surprising picture of poverty than studies that look at income alone. |
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阿尔凯尔表示，这种新的指数研究比以前仅考虑收入的研究描绘出的贫困镜像更加不同，更加令人震惊。 |
| For example, in Ethiopia 90 percent of people are 'MPI poor' compared to the 39 percent who are classified as living in 'extreme poverty'. |
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例如，在埃塞俄比亚，按照MPI 指数，90%的人是贫困的，远远超过被界定为“极端贫困的”39%的人口。 |
| And 1.7-billion people living in the countries covered by the Index live in poverty according to the MPI – that is higher than the 1.3-billion people who live on $1.25 a day or less. |
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按照MPI 指数，17 亿人口处于贫困状况——远远高于每天生活费低于1.25 美元的13 亿人口。 |
| Alkire says a benefit of the new index is that it shows how poverty affects people living in different regions of a country. |
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阿尔凯尔表示，这种新的指数的一个优势是，表明了贫困对一个国家不同地区的人们产生怎样的影响。 |
| "So we looked at Kenya, where Nairobi has the poverty of the Dominican Republic – not too much poverty – |
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“我们观察了肯尼亚，内罗毕有着像多米尼加共和国一样的贫困——贫困人口并不是很多—— |
| whereas the northeastern rural area of Kenya is worse than our poorest country, Niger, with more than 90 percent of people poor," Alkire said. |
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然而，肯尼亚东北部的农村地区比最贫困的国家尼日尔还糟糕，贫困人口超过90%。” |
| She says it also shows the range of poverty amongst different ethnic groups – she says in some countries the variety is tremendous. |
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她说，该指数还表明了不同民族之间的贫困程度——她说，在某些国家，这种差别非常大。 |
| The Multidimensional Poverty Index was developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative with support from the United Nations. |
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多维贫穷指数由牛津大学贫困与人类发展中心(OPHI)开发，联合国支持。 |
| It will be featured in the upcoming UNDP Human Development Report, replacing the Human Poverty Index. |
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该指数将取代人类贫困指数成为联合国开发计划署人类发展报告的主要指数。 |
| Researchers analyzed data from 104 countries with a combined population of 5.2 billion – just under 80 percent of the world's total population. |
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研究人员分析了来自104 个国家的数据，总人口约52亿——稍低于世界总人口的80%。 |
