poverty中等

Called conditional cash transfers or CCTs, these social assistance programs are designed to reduce inequality and break the cycle of poverty.

这些社会援助计划被称为有条件现金转移支付（CCT），旨在减少不平等、打破贫困循环。

In fact, poverty alleviation and environmental protection are often viewed as conflicting goals, says Paul Ferraro, an economist at Johns Hopkins University.

约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的经济学家保罗·费拉罗说，事实上，扶贫和环境保护常常被视为相互冲突的目标。

That’s because economic growth can be correlated with environmental degradation, while protecting the environment is sometimes correlated with greater poverty.

这是因为经济增长可能与环境恶化相关，而保护环境有时又与更严重的贫困相关。

Ferraro wanted to see if Indonesia’s poverty-alleviation program was affecting deforestation.

费拉罗想看看印度尼西亚的扶贫计划是否正在影响森林砍伐。

Even if this program didn’t reduce poverty, Ferraro says, “the value of the avoided deforestation just for carbon dioxide emissions alone is more than the program costs.”

费拉罗说，即使这个计划没有减少贫困，“仅就二氧化碳排放而言，避免森林砍伐所带来的价值就超过了该计划的成本。”

its annual rate of poverty alleviation.

该国每年的减贫速度。