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The creation of special economic zones, industrial parks, and free-trade zones facilitated such development, as they benefited from a large pool of cheap labor migrating from rural areas.
Moreover, midwives’ integrated, frontline approach helps them bridge the gap between isolated rural health centers and the communities they serve.
What they won’t see, of course, are the desperately low living standards of China’s teeming millions, especially the rural poor.
Average annual output per capita is about $900, and incomes among the peasants who make up most of its rural population of 26 million are less than $250.
Others claim that renewables are the way to go.Green energy, especially wind, can indeed help African countries, for example, get some electricity to remote, rural areas; but the grid will do the most good for the most people.
These principles are especially true in places like China’s rural Xinjiang province, where life expectancy is stunted at 67 years (compared to 73.5 for China as a whole), and lack of access to health care undermines well-being.
But the reality is that maintaining the livelihood and well-being of this area’s population and those in other rural parts of China is a serious challenge.
Throughout rural China, the spread of infectious diseases – particularly hepatitis B, which affects millions – reflects a lack of hygiene education.
Moreover, there is a serious shortage of health-care workers – just 1.3 per 1,000 rural inhabitants in China.
During a recent trip to Xinjiang, I met several physicians from rural hospitals who had received training through Health Express.
Now, with physicians trained in infectious diseases, hepatitis treatment is possible in rural areas of Xinjiang, and patient outcomes have improved significantly.
I also met with school children at Urumqi Dengcaogou Boarding School, which is situated in a rural area outside of the provincial capital.
For example, disputes over fertile land and fresh water fueled the war in Darfur, and even the current crisis in Syria – one of the greatest sources of human displacement today – began after successive droughts pushed Syrians from rural areas into cities.
Poor people, those living in rural areas, and families with lower education levels comprise the majority of those who are not reached.
Beyond inadequately financed health systems, which remain weak and inefficient, especially in rural areas, African countries face challenges in affording new, more expensive vaccines.
Photovoltaics can be rapidly deployed in rural areas without the need for installing an expensive grid system – Bangladesh is a pioneering case in point.
Urban household spending in Africa is increasing twice as fast as rural spending, with urban per capita incomes, on average, 80% higher than those of countries as a whole.
Cities are thriving as magnets for the wealthy and ambitious, but rural residents often feel left behind.
And they are certainly not in the poor, rural communities in the east and south of the country, which have been disproportionately emptied by emigration.
In fact, to the extent that developing countries permit higher prices to go to their farmers, the result could be a significant stimulus to economic growth in rural regions of developing countries – where most of the world’s poor live.
This policy can stymie rural development and diminish poverty alleviation.
In the long run, the higher prices that result could become an engine of economic development in the world’s poor rural regions.
After bank bailouts, Bernard Madoff-type financial scandals, and a housing bubble that left Americans high and dry, it is as if the collective unconscious is recasting life on yachts and perfectly manicured golf courses as distasteful, and thrifty, often rural simplicity as a virtuously cleansing relief.
Internet access would also bypass the problem of illiteracy, building on the oral traditions that are strong in many rural cultures and enabling communities to create self-help groups and share their problems with peers in other villages.
The biggest development failures tend to be in rural areas far from the coast.
Meanwhile, crony capitalism fuels income inequality, impedes rural development, and erodes the education system.
According to one view, he is betting that social conservatives and white blue-collar supporters in rural areas will vote on the basis of nationalist and religious sentiment and antipathy toward secular coastal elites, rather than for their own financial interests.
But emphasis seems to have shifted to encourage coordinated development between urban and rural areas.
While rural migrant workers will be encouraged to settle in small and medium-size cities, migration to metropolises will remain tightly controlled – or even be more strictly regulated.
The young people at Shahbag are mainly urban, educated, and middle class;Hifazat derives its support mainly from the rural poor.
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