Most experts agree, and Deaton concurs, that at least a billion people on the planet live in desperate circumstances resembling conditions that prevailed hundreds of years ago. Our failure to alleviate their plight is morally reprehensible.
大多数专家认定而迪顿也赞成的是，地球上至少有十亿人生活在跟前几个世纪类似的悲惨境地之中。我们在缓解这些苦难方面的无能是应当受到道德谴责的。但究竟穷人最集中的地方在哪里？这样的数据非常难以搜集，甚至更难去解读？