Poverty is often best addressed not by helping the poor to be better at what they are already doing, but by getting them to do something altogether different. This calls for diversification of production, urbanization, and industrialization, which in turn require policy interventions that may lie at considerable distance from the poor (such as fixing regulations or targeting the value of the currency).
减贫的最佳办法往往不是帮助贫困者在现有生计方面做得更好，而是要让他们从事不同的生计。这就需要生产的多样化、城市化和工业化，而这些反过来有要求看起来与扶贫相去甚远的政策干预（比如修正监管规则和为货币价值定位）。