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Unlike the Arab Spring rebellions, the driving force behind the ongoing protests is not Russia’s poor and disadvantaged, but rather the country’s rising urban middle class.
In Eastern Europe, most available drug treatment takes place in long-term programs located at centers far from urban centers and without child-care services.
But emphasis seems to have shifted to encourage coordinated development between urban and rural areas.
This requires removing the main institutional cause: the household registration system (hukou), which bars access to public benefits for migrants without urban residence permits.
Instead, they facilitated the expansion of an inefficient public sector, a protected manufacturing industry, and an urban metropolis -- Montevideo.
As time passed, the political power of the urban population outgrew that of the farmers.
But the strongest lobbies -- representing trade unions and other urban groups -- could not allow wage cuts and welfare reductions.
The young people at Shahbag are mainly urban, educated, and middle class;Hifazat derives its support mainly from the rural poor.
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.
Over the past 30 years, the urban share of the Chinese population has risen from 20% to 46%.
Inflation fell, but unemployment, public debt, and urban violence all rose sharply.
With home-ownership rates running at 80% in urban areas, household wealth, particularly in landed property, already exceeds that of many middle-income economies.
And, like guerrilla movements of yore, Al Qaeda partakes of “ideological front” tactics: small urban cells and/or vulnerable individuals subscribe to the ideology and self-recruit or self-start an affiliated cell.
The obvious success of these cities, as both government and economic centers, attests to the fact that urban land derives value from the presence of a well-planned city there.
Indeed, since the industrial revolution, the development of such new urban areas is a central theme in the history of the world.
And the new cities have a way of looking brighter and fresher than the old urban areas, which are often seen as jumbled and decaying.
While images of nudity appear in urban glossy magazines to titillate the bourgeoisie, city-based censors make sure that villagers do not see a woman’s bare breast on a movie screen.
Of course, private investors are generally not interested in projects that don’t generate revenue – such as, say, school libraries, urban “greenways,” or low-income housing – despite the importance of those projects for the economy and society.
Until then, increasing the growth rate of the effective labor force requires shifting workers from low-productivity employment in agriculture to the urban labor force.
Not all of these policies have to succeed in order to keep the urban labor force expanding in the next five years.
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.
One lesson is the crucial importance of using scientifically rigorous investigation of new programs – rather than populist rhetoric, religious moralizing, and urban myth – to guide policymaking.
As the government hands more power over the rainforest to large business owners, ordinary citizens – including smallholder farmers and poor urban dwellers – are bound to suffer.
Kangaroos were hunted and eaten by indigenous Australians, but among urban Australians, the meat is not popular – one survey found only 14% eat kangaroo four times or more per year.
In big cities, moreover, anew urban class is emerging – advanced and modernized Russians with good professional skills who feel at ease in the globalized world.
For now, at least, provincial Russians and the new urban class alike have accepted Putin’s no-participation pact.
In fact, should events turn out badly, critically-minded and well-informed urban achievers would be most likely to embrace the ultimate form of non-participation: emigration.
Egypt’s voters overwhelmingly chose the revolution over the old regime, and shattered the myth that the push for change is an urban, middle-class, Cairo-based phenomenon: the eight revolutionary candidates received more than 16.4 million votes.
That meant a sophisticated election campaign that penetrated deeply into Egyptian society, urban and rural, and in which women played a key role.
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