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By delegating significant fiscal and management responsibility to county, township, and village officials, Foshan’s government was able to stop acting as a substitute for the market, and begin facilitating and supporting market growth.
Three months ago, armed vigilantes attacked the six-year-old’s village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
A trip I took to a village in the Tigre region in northern Ethiopia shows why.
Ethiopian village life has long depended on two crops, one during a short rain in March and April, and the main crop during the long rain in the summer months.
For example, China’s productivity-enhancing agricultural reforms in the 1980s were spurred partly by growth in the non-agricultural sector, a result of policies aimed at stimulating township and village enterprises.
One teacher in the sleepy Nile Delta village morbidly quips that it doubles as a morgue.
From big issues - say, the closure of the Gdansk shipyards - to small ones - say, when the peasants in my village object to a new road because the tumult may kill their pigs - the country is awash in impromptu protest politics.
In 1732, news swept through the Continent that a dead man from a Serbian village killed others at night.
This agreement includes including collaborating or not with the Taliban, cooperating with the Coalition forces, accepting or refusing poppy eradication in a village.
But, according to research by Robert Benewick, a professor at the University of Sussex in England, village elections have been growing more competitive, with a greater number of independent candidates and increasing use of the secret ballot.
And Wen has indicated that village elections might be extended to the next highest government level – township administrations – over the next few years.
Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, a paraplegic refugee from the village of Jora (now on Israel’s southern coast), worked quietly to build a grass-root movement with the tacit assent of the Israeli army, which sought to encourage an alternative to the PLO.
I recall the war memorial in a tiny village north of Queenstown in the heart of “Lord of the Rings” country on the South Island of New Zealand.
When foraging in a rural village, they can exercise that intelligence and explore their varied environment.
Using online mapmaking tools, he created the first map of his village, Mbandaka, which he and his wife have modified more than 100,000 times since 2009.
The Chinese myth of success was the bright peasant boy whose village clubbed together to educate him and whose subsequent success resulted in the elevation of all who had helped him on his way into the civil service.
But AIPAC’s supposed ability to control US policy decisions is a Potemkin village myth, cultivated by friends and rivals alike.
The Indian stove is clearly a work-in-progress; it is too bulky and not durable enough to survive the rigors of an African village.
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy track into the mountains to escape the fighting, my village burning behind me and wondering what would happen to my family and me.
They also know that the dangers don’t stop at the edge of the village or slum; today’s hunger hotspots all too frequently become tomorrow’s violent hotspots.
As the ice-bucket craze spread across Facebook and Twitter, Ebola began ravaging swaths of West Africa village by village.
She recognizes that any lasting transformation in African agriculture will take place, not only village by village, but also farmer by farmer.
Costs are expected to decrease further as the market for equipment grows and as more village populations take charge of operations and maintenance.
Still, the agreement that North and South Korea reached in the border village of Panmunjom earlier this month is unlikely to lead to renewed nuclear-disarmament talks.
CSR can be divided into two categories: what corporations should do (say, contribute to a women’s rights NGO or build a village school) and what they should not do (say, dump mercury into rivers or bury hazardous materials in landfills).
The Internet began as a small village of known users, where an authentication layer of code was unnecessary and the development of norms was simple.
Moreover, most of the 20,000 village councils were elected through secret ballot.
Since most government corruption occurs at the county, township and village levels, it usually involves abuses of power by local officials.
In our village, there used to be two of every shop – butcher’s shop, bakery, hardware store.
Ultimately, the goal of such a framework must be to support countries’ own health systems, by marshaling public and private actors at all levels in a given country, so that every facility – from the public hospital in the capital to the village clinic – is properly provisioned.
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