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Traditional versus modern, urban versus rural, intellectuals versus the peasantry: these divisions are the stuff of political cliché.
China’s rising urban middle class and its surprisingly well-organized rural communities are increasingly demanding less corrupt and more accountable government, cleaner air and water, safer food and drug supplies, and an independent, well-functioning judicial system.
Third, it highlights three correlated goals: easing external pressure for domestic policy changes, building social inclusiveness through a basic social-security scheme, and reducing inefficiency, inequality, and corruption through major rural land reform.
The costs of off-grid electricity are also falling, providing exciting new opportunities to provide affordable and reliable power to rural communities.
The Chinese government is therefore considering several policies to increase the pace of urbanization, including the creation of several new large cities to accommodate some of the 600 million individuals who still live in rural China.
Fifth, increased investment in rural areas, provided for in the government’s rescue plan, will help narrow the gap between urban rich and rural poor.
To promote the sale of household electrical appliances in rural areas, the government has begun providing a 13% price subsidy, not only benefiting rural consumption, but also boosting the growth of major industrial enterprises.
Prices for rural areas – where two-thirds of China’s population still resides – are based on extrapolations from these data.
What will become of several hundred million rural peasants and jobless workers in sunset industries?
With solid backing from the wealthiest 5% of Brazilians and rural landowners, Bolsonaro secured broader popular support by playing on people’s prejudices and fears.
"Responding to reports on the internet and elsewhere, Premier Zhu Rongji apologized for an explosion that gutted an elementary school in rural China," read a report.
In my frequent visits to rural areas of my native Sierra Leone, I have seen more than a few health facilities that communities could do without.
That meant a sophisticated election campaign that penetrated deeply into Egyptian society, urban and rural, and in which women played a key role.
In a shift from the illogical import policy of the past, we focused our energies on revitalizing rural irrigation, which boosted the first dry-season crop yields.
Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam are good examples of countries that have ensured food security through agricultural commercialization, while also increasing wealth in rural communities and expanding foreign-exchange earnings and investment capacity.
Poor rural families see too many of their children become prostitutes in order to survive.
Once back in rural Afghanistan, forced into brutal marriages, many desperate women – especially returnees from Iran – resort to self-immolation.
Moreover, with less government support, rural credit has often become prohibitively expensive.
The Syrian Sectarian DelusionPRINCETON – As Syria’s 18-month-old rebellion has grown increasingly violent – exemplified by the recent massacre of rural villagers by the Syrian military and militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad – long-standing sectarian divisions have become more pronounced.
Many elite Sunnis – rural, urban, or, as in al-Fares’s case, tribal Bedouin – served the Syrian government, even as it brutally repressed the largely Sunni population.
Syria’s predominantly Sunni rural population endures pervasive poverty, while the wealthy, urban elite – itself largely Sunni – prospers.
Like many Sunnis, rural Alawites remain poor.
Nevertheless, although one-third of the West Bank was closed to Palestinians to make room for a few thousand Jewish settlers, only 10% of its largely rural population were refugees, many owned their land, and a variety of jobs was available.
When foraging in a rural village, they can exercise that intelligence and explore their varied environment.
The main focus will be the lagging wages of rural workers, whose per capita incomes are currently only 30% of those in urban areas – precisely the opposite of China’s aspirations for a more “harmonious society.”
Among the reforms will be tax policies aimed at boosting rural purchasing power, measures to broaden rural land ownership, and technology-led programs to raise agricultural productivity.
Boosting employment via services, and lifting wages through enhanced support for rural workers, will go a long way toward raising Chinese personal income, now running at just 42% of GDP – half that of the United States.
Already, the clean-energy revolution has brought jobs, money, and industry to rural America.
And there’s more good news: the strongest job gains due to diversification are occurring in rural areas and among small enterprises, suggesting that India’s urbanization can bring inclusive growth and prosperity.
Evidence also shows that high growth rates, which support poverty reduction, are concentrated in the rural areas of particular districts.
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