poverty gap

基本解释

Outside the higher income brackets, a gender poverty gap persists.
在高薪层之外，性别贫困差距仍在继续。
Elsewhere in the world, the poverty gap is often above 50% and can even total 100% of a country’s domestic income.
世界上其他国家，贫富差距经常超过百分之五十，甚至高达一个国家家庭收入的百分之百。
In Mexico, the poverty gap—or shortfall from the poverty line—among CCT beneficiaries in rural areas was reduced by 19 percent.
在墨西哥农村，有条件现金资助受益户的贫困率降低了19％。

Where the world's poorest countries are concerned, the G20 says that narrowing the development gap and reducing poverty are integral to a broader objective of achieving strong,sustainable and balanced growth.

So how many dollars would have filled the poverty gap in 2001?
ECONOMIST: The UN's Millennium Development Goals
Women make up about two-thirds of all the workers earning minimum wage, increasing the gap as they continue to pull in poverty wages.
FORBES: Dear President Obama: Want Equal Pay for Equal Work? Here's Where to Start.
In the face of escalating poverty, growing environmental and social pressures, and a widening income gap, we see the need for greater effectiveness in what we do.
ECONOMIST: World Bank reform

贫富差距
However, the takeoff of the economy creates manyconflicts, problems and threats, for example, lack of human resources, poverty gap,corruption of the government etc.
然而，经济的起飞衍生不少矛盾、问题和危机，例如人力资源短缺、贫富差距、政府贪腐等。