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The fixed-capital investments that have formed the basis of China’s growth model largely have benefited the entire economy; infrastructure improvements, for example, have enabled the rural poor to increase their productivity and incomes.
Investment is particularly needed in the road network to build the arteries that bring jobs and prosperity: most of the extreme poor in Latin America’s rural communities live five kilometers or more from the nearest paved road.
In Thailand, the rural poor organized against a reform minded Democrat government while its party rivals canvassed on the old politics of patronage and money.
Only a few decades ago, China was a poor, largely rural country with an agrarian economy and almost no middle class.
On this front, efforts to achieve environmental remediation, to boost the resilience of rural communities, to advance sustainable agricultural production, and to support community-based environmental stewardship have all shown promising results.
Extending the use of biofuels in these regions could boost productivity and create new employment opportunities, especially in rural areas.
Flexibility is key to efforts to leverage the world’s growing reliance on biofuels to boost agricultural productivity, accelerate rural development, and increase food security.
Havel’s death comes at a time of massive demonstrations in Russia to protest ballot fraud; violence in Egypt as democratic activists battle the deeply entrenched military; an uprising in rural China against corrupt local officials; and police in body armor violently dismantling the Occupy protest sites in American cities.
Coal companies and their allies argue that limiting coal production would keep the lights off in rural communities by preventing poor countries from building big, cheap power plants.
Unexpected events, such as flooding and drought, can have dire consequences: sharp drops in rural incomes, surging food bills, and severe food shortages.
Moreover, given the income disparities between cities and rural areas, their education is more expensive than it is for urban families.
As a result, a majority of rural kids will enter the workforce without a university diploma.
That would not just reduce over-pumping, but also help to supplement rural incomes.
Most live in rural areas where the population is sparse and incomes are low, making it uneconomical to connect homes and businesses to a grid.
For example, bicycle mechanics, who are plentiful in Africa and rural India, or small shop and kiosk owners could be trained to install and maintain these systems.
It is a simple idea that would allow millions of people in poor, rural areas worldwide to integrate their activities with the wider economy, accumulate capital, and improve their lives.
With a weak central government facing brutal guerrilla forces, many rural Congolese are forced to survive in a dangerous and cruel environment.
China’s leaders must devote their attention to a staggering array of pressing problems at home: averting an economic slowdown that could push millions out of work and into the streets, the fallout from rural land reform, and efforts to manage enormous environmental and public health problems.
His overbearing manner and self-serving policies have deepened the divisions between affluent secularists and the poorer, rural Muslims who form his base.
It also gives both the candidate countries and the European Commission a detailed map of what must be accomplished in each area, from food safety to rural development.
Sunni Islamist jihadists seized the opportunity to expand their ranks by targeting an angry, desperate, and relatively young population, largely from rural areas, for recruitment.
Moreover, given that transaction costs often take a big slice of remittances, aid mechanisms could be used to create safe and cheap channels for financial flows, especially where private money cannot easily reach remote rural areas, as is often the case in Africa or Asia.
Sending money to some countries is now allowed only through formal banking channels, and this has created virtual monopolies while also preventing remittance money from reaching rural areas where banks don’t operate.
Investment in agricultural and rural development is therefore vital to food security and sustainable economic development.
Poverty is predominantly rural.
Globally, three-quarters of people living in extreme poverty are in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.
A vibrant rural sector generates local demand for locally produced goods and services.
This is crucial for rural employment, without which poor rural young people will be driven away from their communities in search of work in the cities.
It is also crucial that they continue to improve their systems to create an enabling environment for dynamic rural growth to transform subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs.
Given their central role not only as mothers and caregivers, but also as farmers, rural women hold the key to food security.
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