One reason global poverty has been so intractable is that it remains largely out of sight for those who are not living it, safely somebody else’s problem. The fact that most participants in discussions about global poverty – the readers of this commentary included – know few, if any, people who live below the poverty line is an indication of the extent of the world’s economic segregation.
全球贫困问题之所以如此棘手，一个原因是它很少受到非生活在贫困中的人的关注，它只是别人的问题。大部分全球贫困问题讨论的参与者——包括这篇评论的读者——很少或根本不认识生活在贫困线以下的人，这正是世界经济分裂程度的一个写照。如果贫困问题能得到宣传，贫困率应该比现在低得多。