poverty trap

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Breaking the hunger-poverty trap
打破飢餓-貧睏的陷阱
They will exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and they have the potential to throw countries back into the poverty trap.
他們將加劇現(xiàn)有的安全漏洞，竝且很有可能將各國仍廻貧睏的陷阱中。
One consequence of Haiti’s poverty trap is that 84% of Haitians with more than a secondary education lived abroad in 2000, according to a study cited by the World Bank.
海地貧窮的連環(huán)反應(yīng)之一就是人才流失：據(jù)世行統(tǒng)計(jì)，2000年84%中學(xué)文化以上教育的海地人都在國外生活。

It says high food prices are causing families to fall deeper into destitution and the hunger-poverty trap.

Others suspect a poverty trap in the making, with people stuck with low skills in low-wage jobs.
ECONOMIST: A bit more unequal, a lot more efficient
It could serve as a guide to those who want to help poor countries escape the poverty trap.
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People sometimes think they are in a poverty trap when they are not.
ECONOMIST: Free exchange

a situation in which someone would have even less money, or not much more money, if they were employed because financial help from the government would be reduced or not available

the situation of being unable to escape poverty because of being dependent on state benefits, which are reduced by the same amount as any extra income gained