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17-3 How can reducing poverty help us deal with environmental problem?

The gap between rich and poor is getting wider
1.def proverty
2.reducing poverty benefits individuals, economics, and environment and helps us to slow population growth.
3. neoclassical economist, trickle-down effect涓滴效應(利益均霑). but the fact is income flowing up to the rich, rather than trickling down to worker.
4.wealth gap has grown since 1980. 2005年全球最有錢的3人財富相當於全球最貧窮的48個國家
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We can reduce poverty
5.education, hard work, displine can attract investment capital.
6.貧窮國的債務豁免forgive, 每分鐘要付$571,000的利息
7.政府.企業.國際貸款公司lending agencies,富人幫助貧窮國家對抗貧窮. (increase aids, combat malnutrition and infectious diseases, investment in small-scale infrastructure, small loans to poor people)
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indebte負債
debt-ridden債務充斥
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self-reliant獨立自主


Case study-microloans to the poor
8.microlending or microcredit
9.Muhammad Yunus , Grameen Bank since 1983. repayment rate 99% compare to 45-50% in traditional bank in Bangladesh. 2006 won the Nobel Peace Prize.
collateral抵押品,擔保的,有擔保的
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We can achieve the world's millennium development goals
10.MDGs(millennium development goal) 富裕國家捐獻 annual national income0.7%. but reality only 0.25%.(富國幫助窮國)


We can make the transition to an eco-economy and make money doing it
11. eco-economy(solutions): economics, resource use and pollution, ecology and population.
12.environmentally sustainable business and careers.
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amend改善
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refusing拒絕;拒受
aquaculture水栽法 水產養殖
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