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...which is under 35. The region's growing economic clout, says Gerald Knaus, director of the European Stability Initiative, an Istanbul-based think tank, suggests that divisions in Turkey between wealthy, secular élites and the conservative Muslim middle class are disappearing. "We are seeing the transformation of an agrarian society into an industrial economy," he says...
...Huaxi got a head start on sky-high socialism in 1969, when Communist Party secretary Wu Renbao founded a village-owned textile factory - a rarity at the time. Gradually, the town switched from agriculture to manufacturing, embracing urbanization amid the pro-agrarian orthodoxy of China's Cultural Revolution. The move paid off. In the 1990s, it became the first commune in China to list shares on a stock exchange...
...further open export markets. New Zealand would like to follow Australia's lead and sign one with the U.S., but a deal with China is just as pressing. Lopsided tariff barriers - China's go as high as 38%, while New Zealand has almost none - and agrarian Kiwis' growing dependence on Chinese machinery, electronics, clothing and furniture are tilting the scales ever more steeply in Beijing's favor. New Zealand's trade deficit with China is its biggest with any nation: $2.7 billion, up fourfold since...
...notes that although there is "widespread recognition in both political and academic circles that the existing rural land system faces extremely grave problems, an extremely large gap also exists over the nature of the problem and how to solve it." Given that the party rose to power as an agrarian movement, conservative forces are blocking attempts to grant private ownership of farmland, which they believe would destroy one of the party's most fundamental socialist tenets. The answer, say Yu and some other academics and lawyers, is gradual reform that gives farmers more control over their land and cracks down...
Agricultural policy is not sexy. You probably don't know the intricacies of "loan deficiency payments" or "base acreage," and you probably don't care. This was once an agrarian nation, but now there's a less than 1% chance that you're a farmer, and if you are, you're probably part time; the average farm family gets 82% of its income from nonfarm sources. We're not a people of the soil anymore, and for most of us, our eyes glaze over when we see farm statistics like the ones in that last sentence...