The good news is that the gap between the emerging and advanced countries has narrowed greatly in the last three decades. Nonetheless, hundreds of millions of people remain in poverty, and there has been only a little progress in reducing the gap between the least developed countries and the rest.
好消息是新兴国家与发达国家之间的差距在过去三十年里已经大大缩小了。然而，数亿人仍处于贫困线上，而在缩小最贫困国家与其它国家差距方面则进步不大。