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In each village, a woman skilled in communication will teach families how to prepare balanced meals and ensure adequate nutrition for children.
The latest assault took place only 30 miles from the village of Chibok, where the Islamist militants shocked the world by abducting more than 200 Nigerian girls in April.
Already, some village leaders are elected; this may slowly spread to regional officials, and then upward to the central government.
Previously, it was Russia’s Western mission that was pure Potemkin village.
As one doctor told me: “A competent midwife or nurse would rather be out of work in Kabul than stuck in a remote village.”
But, in a global village, misperceptions can arise all too easily – and can do great damage.
In many developing countries, village associations that are solely based on trust and peer pressure provide access to credit and insurance, guarantee help in times of distress, and facilitate the construction of public roads and sewage systems.
To get a sense of the island city-state’s meteoric rise, one need only compare the glittering metropolis depicted in “Crazy Rich Asians” with the hut-filled fishing village depicted in the 1940 classic comedy, “Road to Singapore,” starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and Bob Hope.
Foshan’s municipal government, which was among the first to experiment with township and village enterprises and privatization in the early 1980s, has played an important role in buoying private enterprise.
No one expects venture capitalists to divert their resources to village schools, but perhaps they could focus a little more on training new employees rather than poaching them from the competition at inflated salaries.
In June 2006, I sat in a village in southern Thailand’s Yala province with several ordinary-looking young men who had taken part in extraordinary events.
The village moneylender, though often a shark, at least belongs to the community and knows his clients.
But my neighbor in the country, who is twenty-years-old, also has no chance: no chance to go to university; no chance of getting a decent job; no chance of even buying a slice of pizza in the local village.
The officials stressed how the government has taken pains to ensure that the power grid and transportation network reaches every village in China.
Shopping malls crop up in newly built suburbs, and Facebook has made it to the smallest Andean village.
Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, has repeatedly expressed outrage at American air strikes that have killed civilians – most recently in August, when he said that 95 Afghans, including 50 children, were killed in the bombing of a village.
When the army enters a village, chaos erupts.
Some have likened FIFA to the Mafia, and Blatter, born in a small Swiss village, has been called “Don Blatterone.”
Restoring security in Mali requires dialogues between village and tribal leaders.
Likewise, rebuilding the country’s infrastructure depends on talks between any remaining municipal authorities and village leaders.
Each group's self-interest in sustaining the flow of petrodollars serves to unite much of Nigeria's patchwork of emirates, kingdoms, village republics, and autonomous clans.
Nigeria’s Poverty-Powered InsurgencyLAGOS – Nigerian security forces recently razed a northeastern fishing village, leaving almost 200 people dead and destroying some 2,000 homes, in order to root out just a few members of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram.
Indeed, the only elections in China in which truly independent voters choose candidates occur at the village committee level, but this democratic mummery is staged mainly for the benefit of outside observers.
At one point, the project – which is also part of a massive art installation – refers to the history of a village: local teenagers recount that, “Soldiers once occupied this place.
Similarly, Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy simply explores the life of a Ukrainian truck driver named Georgy, who gets lost and finds himself in an archetypal Russian village, where he is drawn into daily life.
China’s Aborted OpennessChina’s state-run Xinhua news agency recently reported on a government investigation into a string of forced sterilizations and abortions in the village of Linyi, Shandong province.
The village, too, is mysteriously without phone service.
Six villagers in the Hebei village of Dingzhou, protesting government seizure of their land, died after bloody clashes with a gang of toughs in July.
To allow disorderly self-correction by markets would require confidence at all levels of governance, from the central government to village administrations, and among SOEs.
When the Internet was created in the 1970s, its members formed a virtual village; everyone knew one another, and together they designed an open system, paying little attention to security.
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