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President Jimmy Carter spent New Year’s Eve, 1979, phoning Democratic Party leaders in rural Iowa.
This is especially true for girls in rural parts of Africa, where poverty, abuse, and tradition conspire to limit opportunity.
Delivering services to girls under ten years of age, especially in rural areas, is essential if Africa is ever to achieve lasting gender equality.
Measures aimed at accomplishing this could be particularly effective in countries where emission standards for diesel-fueled vehicles have not yet been introduced, and in countries, especially in Asia and Africa, where rural dwellings are heated by primitive stoves and food is prepared over open fires, causing large emissions of soot particles.
This should be seen as a betrayal of many Trump voters in the rural areas of relatively poor states and the Rust Belt cities of the Midwest, where people most need the federal government’s help to remain solvent and healthy.
They rapidly identified and defeated the Shining Path army in Peru’s rural areas, where 95% of the fighting had taken place.
But, instead of breathing life into free trade in food, rural protectionism in rich countries seems to have killed the Doha Round – and, with it, potentially the whole multilateral trading regime.
Most galling, agriculture is a small and declining part of these “rich club” economies, and the richer and larger they are, the less significant agriculture is and the more resources are wasted on rural welfare.
The practical challenge comes from agriculture’s two advantages that insulate the rural sector from global market forces and turn even the most urbane, liberal politicians into its defenders.
Its electoral system heavily favors rural voters.
Japan’s demographic crisis is particularly acute in rural areas, where the average age of farmers is surpassing the retirement age.
Despite decades of immense government support, Japan’s rural sector cannot even aspire to feed its declining population.
The rapid aging and decline of Japan’s rural population is fundamentally shifting Japan’s approach to food.
Japan, due to its advanced demographic decline, is the bellwether, yet other traditional rural protectionists like France and South Korea are not far behind.
Praphat Panyachartrak, responsible for most rural reform, had to fend off an attempt to discredit him as a land-grabber.
Understanding common causes of death is the only way to improve health care in communities with a high disease burden, patriarchal hierarchies, and large and dispersed rural populations that rely on traditional medicine.
Rural women, and particularly poor female farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, have not yet benefited from the recent focus on gender equality.
Illiteracy, limited land ownership, and restrictions on agency and mobility all conspire to reduce rural women’s access to farm financing.
Given these benefits, the question is not whether women in rural Africa need expanded access to farm-related capital, but rather how to provide it.
For poorer rural areas, this means creating a fertile environment for entrepreneurs and small power producers to develop mini-grids – generally powered by solar, small hydro, or solar-diesel hybrids – that can bring electricity to communities that would otherwise wait for years for grid connections.
Since then, this remarkable young woman from rural Malawi has helped to persuade her government to raise the minimum age of marriage across her country, and is blazing a trail for girls that we all should follow.
The first is the widening of Britain’s income distribution between 1750 and 1850, as the gains from the British Industrial Revolution went to the urban and rural middle class, but not to the urban and rural poor.
This has underpinned tremendous economic mobility among Turkey’s rural labor force, small entrepreneurs, and lower-income workers, taking masses of people from the margins of society to the mainstream.
Much like the AKP’s rise, the empire’s was based on the support of an emancipated citizenry in the rural countryside, particularly in the Anatolian heartland.
But Thaksin had by then won over Thailand’s rural population through popular policies including handouts.
But others did meet real rural needs: cutting medical costs, providing subsidized agricultural loans, and maintaining price supports.
Thaksin’s rural base rewarded him by returning him to power, ignoring his personal corruption.
Thaksin’s detractors call his rural strategy (which his proxy successors have followed) cynical vote buying.
But Thaksin’s rural base wonders why the anti-Thaksin groups and his predecessors in power never tried to do much for them.
Three-quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas, where agricultural workers suffer the highest incidence of poverty, largely owing to low productivity, seasonal unemployment, and the low wages paid by most rural employers.
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