Poverty traps are economic and environmental circumstances that reinforce themselves, perpetuating poverty for generations.

贫困陷阱是自我强化的一种经济和环境状况，它使贫困世代延续。

It’s basically a poverty trap for some of those countries which they can never get out of.

对于其中一些国家来说，这就是一个他们永远无法逃脱的贫困陷阱。”

Some poverty traps are tied to an individual's circumstances, like a lack of access to healthy food or education.

一些贫困陷阱与个人的情况有关，比如缺乏健康食品或教育。

Some poverty traps are tied to an individual’s circumstances, like a lack of access to healthy food or education.

一些贫困陷阱与个人的情况有关，例如无法获得健康食品或教育。

Economists call this demoralizing situation the welfare trap — one of the many different poverty traps affecting millions of people around the world.

经济学家称这种令人沮丧的情况为福利陷阱——影响世界各地数百万人的众多不同的贫困陷阱之一。

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

因此如果没有政治改革，贫穷国家可能无法摆脱其贫困陷阱，而政治改革则只能靠更广泛的正规教育实现。

18. Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

18. 因此，如果不进行政治变革，穷国可能无法摆脱贫困陷阱，而政治变革只有通过更广泛的正规教育才有可能实现。

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, the MIT economists who won the Nobel Prize last year, led multicountry evaluations that identified graduation as one of the most effective ways to break the poverty trap.

去年获得诺贝尔奖的麻省理工学院经济学家 Esther Duflo 和 Abhijit Banerjee 领导了多国评估，将毕业确定为打破贫困陷阱的最有效方法之一。