The poor are always with us, said Jesus. But they are not always fashionable. Few people have been such indefatigable thinkers about the economics of poverty as Sir Hans Singer, a British development theorist who was born a Jew and brought up in a Catholic area of mainly Protestant Germany. He came from "a minority in a minority in a minority", he liked to say, with a smile that belied how much he cared about the world's marginalised.
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机译：耶稣说，穷人永远与我们同在。但是它们并不总是时尚的。很少有人像汉斯·辛格爵士（Sir Hans Singer）那样，对贫困的经济学有不屈不挠的思想家，他是一位犹太人，在主要是新教德国的天主教地区长大的英国发展理论家。他喜欢说，他来自“少数派中的少数派”，微笑着掩饰了他对世界边缘人的关心。
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