Poor Economics

単語	意味	用例
ramshackle	今にも倒れそうな	They lived in little ramshackle houses.
marble	ビー玉	When he went down to play marbles with them, the marbles would always end up in the pockets of their ragged shorts.
ragged	ぼろぼろの	When he went down to play marbles with them, the marbles would always end up in the pockets of their ragged shorts.
reduce A to B	AをBに変える	We have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon characters and take the time to understand their lives.
alley	路地	This has taken us to the back alleys where the poor live.
measles	はしか	Vaccines can stop your child from getting measles.
intractable	手に負えない	The problem seem too intractable.
flyer	折込チラシ	There were two different flyers.
maize	とうもろこし	In Zambia, severe rainfall deficits have resulted in 42% drop in maize production.
imperil	危険に晒す	Our first instinct is to be generous, when facing an imperiled seven-year-old girl.
ensnare	罠にかける	If the condition of poverty is not permanent, he argues, then the idea of a poverty trap that inexorably ensnares poor countries is bogus.
inexorably	無情にも	If the condition of poverty is not permanent, he argues, then the idea of a poverty trap that inexorably ensnares poor countries is bogus.
rigor	正確さ、厳しさ	The studies we use have in common a high level of scientific rigor.
apprentice	見習い、徒弟	He is too old to be an apprentice.
listless	気のない、無関心な	Lack of food made him weak and listless.
meager	貧弱な	All the food he can afford is barely enough to allow for earning the meager income that the individual originally used to buy that food.
bank	川岸	The food he got was barely enough for him to have the strength to catch some fish from the bank.
millet	キビ	In terms of calories per rupee, the millets were clearly the best buy.
bereft of	を失わせる	The poor spent almost 5% percent of their total budget on sugar, which is both more expensive than grains as a source of calories and bereft of other nutritional value.
edible	食べられる	The composition of the food basket has changed so that the same amount of money is now spent on more expensive edibles.
mundane	平凡な、ありふれた	This is attributable also to more mundane factor such as the adoption of the potato into the diet.
reminiscent	思い出させて	Reminiscent of the witch hunt of little ice age, Tanzania experiences a rash of witch killings whenever there is a drought.
hoarding	秘蔵	Most recent famines have been caused by institutional failures that led to poor distribution of the available food, or even hoarding and storage in the face of starvation elsewhere.
scrawny	痩せこけた	Why are all South Asians so scrawny?
heyday	全盛	South Asians have never had the dominance over cricket that the tiny West Indies had in their heydays.
inflammatory	扇情的な	I find your hypothesis inflammatory.
anemia	貧血症	Worms contribute to anemia and general malnutrition.
utero	子宮の	Conditions in utero have long-term impact on child’s life chances.
lethargy	無気力	Anemia is associated with lethargy.
flurry	狼狽、突風	This set off a flurry of protests, and the chief minister was greeted by protesters with garlands of vegetables.
garland	花冠	This set off a flurry of protests, and the chief minister was greeted by protesters with garlands of vegetables.
dowry	新婚の持参金	It has been widely documented that poor people spend large amounts on wedding, dowries, and christenings.
exasperate	苛立たせる	One of them got so exasperated that she decided to be blunt.
bleach	漂白剤	A family can buy enough bleach to purify its water supply, avoiding waterborne diarrhea.
mire	泥沼、人を苦境に陥らせる	The family was already mired in debt.
insalubrious	不健康な	Workers living in an insalubrious environment may miss many workdays.
wrinkle	妙案	There is one wrinkle with his theory.
a discount voucher	割引券	When some households were offered a discount voucher, only about 50% wanted to buy it.
shun	決まって避ける	The poor mostly shun the free public health-care system.