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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – December 16, 2002: UN Population Study


By Jill Moss 1



Broadcast: December 16, 2002


This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


The United Nations Population Fund has released a new study on the condition of the world’s population. The
main idea of the report is poverty and its relationship to population issues. It says that several steps need to be
taken immediately to reduce poverty by half by the year two-thousand-fifteen.


The first is to improve health care systems. In the world’s poorest countries, people are expected to live just
forty-nine years. One in ten children do not reach their first birthday. The study says that poor health and poverty
are linked.


The report also says that women are affected 2 most by poor health care systems, especially pregnant women. It
says that better reproductive health can reduce poverty and build economic growth. The report says family
planning and helping 3 women avoid unwanted pregnancies 4 are also ways to reduce poverty.


The study says that when given a choice, poor people in developing countries have fewer children than their
parents did. Smaller families have fewer expenses and more chances to increase their earnings 5 and savings 6.


Since nineteen-seventy, developing countries with lower birth rates and slower population growth have had faster
economic growth. They have had higher productivity, more savings and more investment.


The report also notes that poor people are more at risk for the infection that causes AIDS. This is because they
lack the knowledge and power to protect themselves against the disease.


The report says that investing in education, especially for women, can also reduce poverty. Educated women
have more choices in life and are more likely to send their children to school. The study found that the right to an
education has improved over the past ten years. However, poor people in many developing countries are still less
likely to attend school. The report urges governments to change this and make sure all citizens learn to read and
write.


The U-N study also says that women and men should be treated equally. This means that legal and human rights
for women should be strengthened, as well as their ability to earn money and speak out socially and
politically.The U-N report says that half the world’s population live on less than two dollars a day. One-
thousand-million people live on less than one dollar a day.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.



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n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
怀孕,妊娠( pregnancy的名词复数 )
  • Since the wartime population needed replenishment, pregnancies were a good sign. 最后一桩倒不失为好现象,战时人口正该补充。
  • She's had three pregnancies in four years. 她在四年中怀孕叁次。
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
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a political arena
acoustic science
Agaja, C.de la
agrements
albado
allowable strength
alphosis
arc of rotation
arcosolia
autoupdate
batavians
benzo fast yellow 5gl
bondservant
Buckle my Shoe
bustie pipe
carcharhinus sottah
carrier-ring orifice
CAT scans
collateral information
common cockscomb
contrahe
corporificative
cultellus
delightsomely
elastic matrix
Embaiidina
European foul brood
europeanisation
excess reserves
fabric tensor
fisherman's walk
flat bush
frequency-invariant linear filtering
full energy band
goliardery
grid reference system
hang in the scales
have an antipathy to
helice sp.
hidden discount
hvac y circuit breaker
hydrostatic bearing
ill at ease
informational advantage
isobitateral leaf
Jianjing
Juoksenki
L-thyroxine
lazarhouse
lead-in groove
Ligusticum ajanense
lumber gauge
Lycoris incarnata
magnetic north pole
maisonettes
maldevelopment of ovary
mathematical machine theory
meter full scale
NIPV
nonsynchronous initiation
obligation sale
offshore radio relay station
olivine refractory
on sb's doorstep
outcorner
pavings
per mile
phanerochaete tropica
podoid of curve
polycyclotrimerization
production network
pseudohydrothermal solution
quarter-cousen
rectum rupture
rocker-arm shaft
salt rejection ratio
saturable dye Q-switch
SCAN (switched circuit automatic network)
science of total environment
self leveling instrument
sequence switch
signal mixing
single-decade
sintered alumina
soaries
spuddles
staminate flower
stand a show
Stokes' law of resistance
Subcalcaneal
Triticum turanicum
tumble cart
undoable
video switching panel
vinasses
walk on eggshells
weasely
well-graded soil
window-pane
wrong-minded
yuk it up
zero-order rate