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...Zeigler blames a lack of investment in agriculture. In much of Asia, rice farming remains small-scale and inefficient. In Thailand, for example, average yields are less than half that of either Chinese or U.S. farms. At the same time, Asia's rapid urbanization has gobbled up fecund farmland. In Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build...
...federal government adopts a similar universal mandate, the situation in Massachusetts will have served as an informative preview of what is to come. In the United States, 47 million people currently lack health insurance, and their entrance into the world of the insured will place a huge burden on already overwhelmed primary care physicians. But even ignoring the entrance of uninsured patients into the health care system, the American Academy of Family Physicians predicts that the country will need 40,000 more family physicians by 2020 due to the aging population, a 40 percent increase over today?...
...Prestige also contributes to the high proportion of specialists. In one study, only 37 percent of those intending to go into family care ended up in family practice. Those who defected were more likely than those rejecting other specialties to quote a lack of prestige, anxiety over mastering a wide breadth of knowledge, and paradoxically, a low academic content as the reasons for their change in focus...
...Market forces alone will not be enough to solve this lack of primary care physicians. State and federal governments, in conjunction with medical schools, must create a system of tax breaks and subsidies—perhaps along the lines of the Harvard Law School’s recent decision to waive third-year tuition for students who pledge to work in public service for five years—to attract more medical students to the field of primary care. Subsidies for primary care residencies, altering the Medicare pay scale, and creating tax breaks for those who practice primary care could...
...businesses, schools and government activities have ground to a halt, reminiscent of bloody protests that have plagued this country for the last several decades - most recently in 2004, when former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown. President Rene Preval, respected for his probity but criticized for his lack of leadership and statesmanship, has been trying to improve Haiti's squalid conditions since taking office in 2006, but demonstrators squeezed by spiraling food costs say they're tired of waiting for a solution to their constant hunger. "We used to be hungry enough to drink Clorox," a local mechanic told TIME...