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Today I will be presenting a report on our findings on the condition of the world’’s (36)__________. It may be a surprise to you that half the people in the world live on less than two dollars a day, and one billion people live on less than one dollar a day. I am going to look at (37) __________ and its relationship to population issues. We must work fast if we hope to reduce poverty by half, by the year 2015. Our survey shows that the first step should be to (38) __________ health-care systems. In the world’’s poorest countries, people are (39) __________to live just 49 years. One in ten children doesn’’t reach his or her first birthday. According to our study, poor health and poverty are (40) __________. Women are affected most by poor health-care systems, especially (41) __________ women. The second job we have to do, as many of you can guess, is to (42) __________birth rates. We have found mat when given a choice, poor people in (43) ___________countries have fewer children than their parents did. A possible reason for this (44) ___________________________________.Since the 1970s, developing countries with lower birth rates have had faster economic growth. They have had higher productivity, more savings and more investment. (45) ___________________________________. Now, here is the third measure we must take: promote education in developing countries. Investing in education, especially for women, can reduce poverty. (46) ___________________________________. Moreover, they tend to send their children to good schools so that they can climb the social ladder.