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...Recognizing the danger of growing imbalances, China's government is now trying to improve the quality of growth, while de-emphasizing the rate of growth. Beijing hopes this will help reduce social tensions by promoting more equity in income distribution and access to consumer goods, including housing, through increasing rural subsidies and other measures. The government also has recently intensified its rebalancing efforts by allowing somewhat faster exchange-rate appreciation and imposing some export taxes...
...state of education in Afghanistan. It shows that the ratio of boys to girls in primary school is roughly 2 to 1, but by the time girls enter secondary school (and puberty), the ratio drops to four boys for every girl. In more than 80% of rural districts, there are no girls in secondary school at all. Overall, only 10% of girls in school actually obtain a diploma...
Fitzsimmons said the schools focused on rural and urban areas in four trips during the month of November. Those trips included one targeting the South and one to the Mid-Atlantic...
...forum to explore questions of multiracial identity that ranged from the existential (“how does one forge a multiracial identity?) to the more practical (“what am I supposed to do with my hair?”). These were questions that went unanswered in my rural home county—population: 91 percent white...
...federal government seems unlikely to pursue such a course: In October, the Senate voted to increase Amtrak subsidies while revoking the stipulation that Amtrak strive for fiscal self-sufficiency. Were the government to privatize the tracks, however, demand would determine which rail corridors were worth keeping open. Though some rural lines that suffer from low ridership may be cut, so too would the inefficiencies that plague the current system. And if tracks were up for bid, firms that performed poorly could be replaced when their contracts expired...