A Translation Project Report On A Measured Approach To Ending Poverty And Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, And The Twin Goals(Overview)

This is a translation project report, the source text is A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared prosperity: Concepts, Date, and the Twin Goals(Overview). The whole report has 112,105 words while the selected source text Overview has 9971 words. There is no Chinese version up to now.Poverty is a global problem. In the past few decades, the Government Organization,Development Agency and Civil Group in all countries spared no efforts to relieve poverty. As a result, substantial progress has been made in reducing global poverty, but it is far from prosperity. The President of the World Bank Mr. Jin Yong Kim announced two new goals to the international community to guide the World Bank’s work in April 2013. First, it would seek to end global poverty, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty to 3 percent of the global population by 2030. Second, it would seek to boost shared prosperity, understood as increasing the average incomes of the bottom 40 percent of the population in each country. The source text emphasizes that both goals should be attained in a sustainable and inclusive manner, ensuring that today’s development will not reversed tomorrow and does not compromise the planet’s future, or that of subsequent generations.This is an international report, with many poverty measurements evolved. The translator hopes the Chinese policy makers can learn from them and take the national conditions into consideration to make practical policies.There are four chapters in this report. Chapter One is an introduction which includes the background, objectives, significance and structure. Chapter Two is the Study of the Background includes the main Content and text analysis of the source text. Chapter Three highlights the difficulties in and methods for the translation. The main difficulties of the translation project are the long and complex sentences and terminologies. Under the guidance of Skopos Theory translation strategy, the translator uses conversion, addition and deletion and syntax division to deal with the difficulties. There are some examples respectively as well. Chapter Four is a conclusion which discusses about the gains, lessons learned and unsolved problems.