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Dean Harvey, thank you for that warm welcome and, President Frederick, thank you for the kind introduction. And thank you to the students, staff and faculty for being excellent hosts. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a president of the World Bank Group has addressed the Howard community. I am grateful to everyone here who made this opportunity possible. ? 哈维院长，谢谢你的热情欢迎；弗里德里克校长，谢谢你的介绍词。感谢所有前来的学校师生和员工。据我们了解，这是世界银行集团行长第一次在霍华德大学发表讲话。我向所有促成此事的人员表示感谢。 ? In preparing for this speech, we did some research on Howard’s history. I was impressed with what we found. I am honored to be at an institution once led by James Nabrit, one of the leading constitutional and civil rights lawyers of his generation; and I am humbled to be at a place that helped shape the thinking of Pauli Murray, a courageous feminist trailblazer and thinker. Over varied and highly accomplished careers, both Nabrit and Murray worked to make the world a more just place. At the Bank, we are driven by the same aspiration. ? 在准备这次演讲的过程中，我们对霍华德大学的历史做了一些了解，而了解到的情况给我留下了深刻印象。今天来到这个曾由著名宪法和民权律师詹姆斯·纳布里特领导的大学，我深感荣幸；而在这个曾塑造了女权主义先锋和思想家保莉·莫瑞思想的学府发表演讲，也让我不胜惶恐。纳布里特和莫瑞通过他们多样而成功的事业使这个世界变得更好。而在世界银行，也正是这样的愿望激励着我们的工作。 ? Over the last two years, I have led an effort at the World Bank Group to reorganize the institution to accomplish our twin goals: end extreme poverty by 2030; and boost shared prosperity among the poorest 40 percent in developing countries. ? 在过去两年里，我领导了世界银行集团进行重组，以实现我们的两个目标：一是到2030年前终结极度贫困；二是促进发展中国家最贫困的40%人口共享繁荣。 ? The first goal is ambitious, and it reflects the tremendous progress we’ve made over the last quarter century in the fight against poverty. In 1990, 36 percent of the world’s population, or 1.9 billion people, earned less than $1.25 a day. By next year, our economists estimate that that rate will have declined to 12 percent – a two-thirds reduction in 25 years. This means that, by next year, one billion fewer people will be living in extreme poverty than in 1990. That’s major