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In the Kyrgyz mountains, there were entire villages with not a man in sight; they had become migrant workers in Russia.
Russian aristocrats used to sell whole villages and estates, including their peasant serfs, as if the latter were inanimate objects, not human beings.
But if it happens, it will not result from grassroots democratic experiments in towns and villages; rather, it will be an elite-driven transition, careful to preserve the government's control.
These tribesmen move to the settled areas for economic and security reasons, and they are the lifelines of their home villages.
For three decades, marauding armies murdered, plundered, and tortured their way through villages and towns.
Another $50 billion is needed in telecommunications infrastructure if Myanmar is to make full use of digital technology to leapfrog stages of development – for example, by using mobile banking or e-commerce to avoid the cost of building physical banks and shops, and to extend health and education services to even the remotest villages.
Under the Organic Law of the Village Committees, all of China's approximately one million villages – home to roughly 600 million voters – hold local elections every three years.
For example, in a study that looked at 40 villages over 16 years, the economist Yao Yang found that the introduction of elections had led to increased spending on public services by 20%, while reducing spending on “administrative costs” – bureaucratese for corruption – by 18%.
No need to explain what was behind the act of women and children fleeing in their villages in tractors; there was a vicious force from which these people were escaping.
An Iraqi commander recently summed up the challenge: “We don’t have enough intelligence information; we don’t have good air coverage; we are battling very well-trained groups that have good experience in street fights, that are moving fast between cities and villages.”
Villages were burned.
In Africa, for example, road coverage on Google Maps increased from 20% in 2008 to 75% last year, while the number of towns and villages for which detailed maps are available grew by more than 1,000%.
And yet the world remains silent in the face of the looting of Grozny and other Chechen towns and villages.
What about the villages exterminated to set an example?
This is over and above the many thousands in the Hunza region, who in January lost everything on account of a cloudburst that wiped out several villages and created a highly unstable artificial lake.
And yet there are still plenty of Japanese tourists in Switzerland, too; and in Grindelwald, one of the Bernese Highlands’s many picturesque villages, there is even a Japanese-language information center.
In pursuit of protein-rich meals, Nkhoma is pushing her cluster of villages, representing a thousand households in all, to begin raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk, and “exotic” vegetables such as cabbage for vitamins.
In the space of just three weeks, she visited 96 villages to promote chicken-raising.
Sachs has raised about $150 million for the villages, enough for five years of support.
Even in the remotest villages on the Angolan border, where Ovambo people live in stick huts, electricity is in short supply, and villagers trek miles each day to fetch firewood and water, a bottle of Coke or Fanta is easy to find.
Similarly, villages have reportedly been denied access to their sole supply of portable water, while the pipeline has seriously threatened the livelihoods of Kribi’s fishermen.
Rural roads, truck transport, and electricity could bring new economic opportunities to remote villages in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
They should walk back down the mountain to the villages, near base camp, meet surviving family members and their community, and share their grief.
In towns and villages with more than a 20% non-Romanian population, street signs must be multi-lingual.
Traditional war is a man’s game: tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages.”
On the Thai coast, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 4,500 fishing vessels were smashed, jeopardizing the livelihoods of 120,000 people in fishing villages there.
But the commercial life has been squeezed out of local villages.
Internet connections in Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and many other parts of the continent are connecting universities, businesses, and even distant villages to global information and markets.
For example, in rural India, recruiters for well-paid back-office jobs visited randomly selected villages over a period of three years.
In a sense, these “ghost cities” resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive illusion for the passing Czarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.
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