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More than 18.5 million people in rural areas now have reliable access to solar-powered electricity.
Encouraging the private sector to take stakes in SOEs in strategic areas like energy, power, and finance is supposed to increase competition, boost efficiency, and reduce pressure on the government to invest.
China’s high rate of GDP growth over the past decade has, of course, raised the real incomes of hundreds of millions of Chinese, particularly those living in or near urban areas.
The prospect of quick gains from occupying publicly owned forestland induces private individuals to grab and clear as much of these areas as quickly as possible, without regard for the environmental and social impact of their behavior.
And progress in some areas need not wait for others.
Educated, professionally successful people increasingly marry and live close to one another, mostly in large, prosperous metropolitan areas.
Those left out also marry and live close to one another, mostly in depressed areas or small towns.
The overwhelming majority of China’s poor live in rural areas, and, for most, hope for a better life lies in the cities, where better-paying jobs are easier to find.
Though land reforms over the last three decades have recognized property rights for individuals and enterprises, rural land rights remain weak relative to legal conditions in urban areas.
Preventing the one-third of city dwellers who lack an urban hukou from accessing public services ultimately means that too many people who would have left rural areas remain tied to the land.
Japan and South Korea, for example, extended public services in their fast-growing urban areas without restricting mobility.
Consider a preventable disease that most people have never heard of: konzo, a permanent, irreversible, upper-motor neuron disorder, common in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa that rely on the bitter varieties of the cassava plant as a staple crop.
Brazil has cleared huge areas of its jungle in order to produce the bio-ethanol that impressed the Secretary General.
Traumatized Israelis cling to the false hope that their lives will be made safer by incremental unilateral withdrawals from occupied areas, while Palestinians see their remnant territories reduced to little more than human dumping grounds surrounded by a provocative “security barrier” that embarrasses Israel’s friends and fails to bring safety or stability.
Even if India and the US differ on the Paris climate agreement, they can still coordinate in other important areas.
The tech giants, meanwhile, argue that if they could just move faster into inefficient production and distribution areas, not least mobile payments, productivity growth would accelerate.
West Europeans also forget that some areas of the world have never known freedom.
The first problems arose in the lawless “federally administered tribal areas” (FATA) in western Pakistan.
By the summer of 2008, both the West and India were facing a Pakistan again in the grip of chaos, its border areas in Islamist hands and its ISI out of the control of the elected civilian government.
Compare this to the “one belt, one road” initiative, which aims to boost China’s financial leverage over other countries through trade and investment, while revising the maritime status quo, by establishing a Chinese presence in areas like the Indian Ocean.
As Haitian economist Kesner Pharel noted, the $200 million drain on the budget “could be better spent on areas like health and education, to achieve a lot more for Haiti.”
But that is often the way that European integration proceeds: an incomplete step in one area later requires further steps in related areas.
The financial sector, which typically pays more than most others, draws scarce high-level skills away from areas of the economy in which they may contribute more to productivity.
And in remote areas in particular, school fees and arduous commutes pose further challenges.
Governments must expand national infrastructure so that students in densely packed urban areas and remote rural villages alike can get online.
That is a difficult challenge, because civil society organizations with the greatest interest in learning how to cope with the new pressures tend to specialize in specific development areas, such as the Millennium Development Goals, or sectoral issues, rather than having a broader view of how development finance institutions and their big shareholders operate.
Diplomacy at the Top of the WorldWASHINGTON, DC – Geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West have been high in recent years, but there remain areas where constructive cooperation and dialogue remain possible.
The second question concerns China, which has not hesitated to exploit legal grey areas unregulated by the WTO to advance its economic and geopolitical interests.
Perhaps most important, they knew that they had to focus on generating employment, particularly in urban areas and modernizing sectors, and on inclusiveness more broadly.
Its commander, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, whose tenure in office was recently, and unusually, extended for an additional three years, was alone among Pakistan’s senior leaders in visiting the flood-affected areas and showing concern about the suffering.
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