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Instead, populism will look more like an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, motivated less by immigration and economic policy than by conservative cultural attitudes among Trump and Brexit voters and the unusual demographic alliances pitting old against young, rural against urban, and university graduates against less educated voters in the US and Britain.
These geographical barriers keep much of Africa, especially rural Africa, out of the mainstream of international trade.
Without the benefits of trade, much of rural Africa struggles at subsistence levels.
The first goal should be to distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to all of Africa’s rural poor within four years.
Even an economy as impoverished as Haiti’s is a complex system dependent on trade between rural and urban areas, transport, electricity, port services, and government functions.
First, special efforts should be made to boost peasant agriculture and rural communities.
With fertilizer, improved seeds, small-scale irrigation, rapid training and extension services, and low-cost storage silos, Haiti’s food production could double or triple in the next few years, sustaining the country and building a new rural economy.
Connecting these customers, most of whom live in rural areas, will require a huge number of skilled workers and entrepreneurs.
For decades, rural communities in frontier economies have waited in vain for government-supplied electricity to arrive.
Tackling rural electrification with mini-grids is not a new idea; communities from the United States to Cambodia have long used this approach to weave local infrastructure into regional or national grids.
But until larger grids arrive, rural areas in developing countries can, and should, go it alone.
In Africa, meanwhile, the World Bank has loaned Nigeria $350 million for rural electrification, while the International Solar Alliance is expected to secure a $2 billion line of credit from India to support projects in Africa, including mini-grids.
Despite these positive developments, however, mini-grids’ full potential to lay the foundation for rural economic development will remain unrealized until politicians, regulators, and international development practitioners embrace decentralized grids as viable, complementary, and inter-operable solutions to energy poverty, rather than sources of competition for traditional power utilities.
The world already knows how to power rural communities; it’s up to politicians to flip the switch.
If the newest farm gadgets and tools are marketed only on social media, as is often the case, uptake in rural areas will remain weak.
Vulnerable groups, such as ethnic and religious minorities and indigenous rural populations struggling to break out of poverty, should receive special attention.
The informal financial sector – which conducts 40% of India’s total lending, largely in rural areas – has all but collapsed.
But then, in 1846, the Conservative Party split over curtailing protective tariffs for grain, which was bad for the party’s rural farming base, but good for manufacturing, and for society generally.
Moreover, during his administration the much-admired Progresa social program to reduce rural poverty was launched.
Notwithstanding the narrowing income gap, rural residents still face inferior access to education, infrastructure, and public services.
No country can be considered modern, regardless of how shiny and dynamic its cities are, if its rural areas are left behind.
Making matters worse, the shift from mixed-use or indigenous systems of raising livestock to large-scale operations jeopardizes rural livelihoods, particularly in developing countries.
To find work, people were forced to move from rural areas to industrial centers, and it was during this period that the first labor movements emerged.
In places like rural El Paso County, on the eastern plains of Colorado, far from the federal budget debate’s epicenter, spending cuts are the order of the day.
The “unbanked” rate is even higher for women, the poor, and people living in rural areas.
Such a modern China would be a world leader in innovation, with a clean environment, a large middle class, and a much narrower gap between rural and urban growth, public services, and living standards.
For example, it must tackle growing income inequality, driven largely by the massive disparity between urban and rural incomes, though the income gap among urban residents is also widening.
The Taliban, for example, have consistently used an anti-women policy to appeal to tribal and rural people.
Arogya Parivar raises general public awareness of health issues by training educators to teach disease prevention and treatment in villages, helping some 2.5 million rural inhabitants in 2012 alone.
The same phenomena can be found in dozens of Indian cities.Urbanization is inevitable: an economy of 1.2 billion people cannot employ two-thirds of them in agriculture and hope to grow; rural people will inevitably move to cities to seek work and better lives.
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