Among the worst performers ( the bottom quartile , which are mostly poor countries ) the improvement has been slightly greater : from 112 days to 63 .

即使在最差的表现者中（最后的四分位数，其中大多数都是穷国），改善程度也略微增大：从112天减少至63天。

A study by economists at the atlanta fed found that thirty per cent of people in the lowest quartile of financial literacy thought they had a fixed-rate mortgage when in fact they had an adjustable-rate one .

据经济学家们在美联储亚特兰大分行的调查发现，最低四分位数金融知识的人认为，他们有一个固定利率的按揭，而实际上，他们的按揭属于可调整利率的抵押贷款。

In fact , china 's performance is even worse than that of argentina , the slowest-growing country in the index , and brazil , with the second slowest-growing economy , produced top quartile investment returns .

实际上，中国的表现甚至比该指数中增长最慢的阿根廷还要糟糕，而经济增速位列倒数第二的巴西，投资回报率却跻身前四。

Whites are four times as likely than african-americans to rise from the bottom quartile to the top .

白人比非洲裔美国人多四倍的可能从底层的四分之一爬升到顶层。

In many developing countries , the poorest quartile of consumers spends close to three-quarters of its income on food .

在很多发展中国家，最穷的四分之一消费者把近四分之三的收入花在食物上。