2. Poverty Flashcards

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Les indigents, les pauvres

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The destitute

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Le dénuement, la misère

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Destitution

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Un pauvre

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A poor man

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La misère noire, la misère extrême

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Dire poverty / grinding poverty / extreme poverty

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Etre dans la misère

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To be poverty-stricken

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La précarité

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Precariousness

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Les défavorisés

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The underprivileged

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Joindre les deux bouts

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To make ends meet

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Sombrer, basculer dans la pauvreté

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To sink into poverty

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Toucher le fond

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To hit / to reach rock bottom

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Être sur le pavé

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To be down and out

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Tirer le diable par la queue

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To keep the wolf from the door

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Être fauché

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To be hard up / broke / skint

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Le PNB

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The GDP

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Le FMI

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The IMF

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Atteindre un objectif

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To meet a target

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Redistribuer les richesses

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To redistribute wealth

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La Banque mondiale

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The World Bank

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Des inégalités criants

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Gross inequalities

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Être sans argent

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To be moneyless

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Éradiquer la pauvreté

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To eradicate poverty

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Les pauvres

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The poor / poor people

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Vivre en dessous du seuil de pauvreté

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To live below the poverty line

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Vivre au jour le jour

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To live a precarious existence

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Un salaire de misère

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Starvation wages

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Avoir juste de quoi vivre

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To live at the subsistence level

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Ne pas avoir le minimum vital

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To live below the subsistence level

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Le strict necessaire

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The bare necessities (of life)

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Être à court d’argent, manquer d’argent

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To be short of money / pressed for money / strapped for cash

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Les riches et les pauvres

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The haves and the haves-nots

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La pauvreté mondiale

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World poverty / global poverty

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Vivre avec un dollar par jour

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To live on a dollar a day

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Une meilleure répartition des richesses

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A better distribution of wealth