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...example, domestic producers have long succeeded in imposing quotas on sugar imported from the Caribbean, though it is one of the islands' crops of comparative advantage. European governments, with the French at the fore, have always sought protection for their farmers as a way of preserving the rural environment and village life. Nick Stern, chief economist of the World Bank, recently estimated that total agricultural subsidies in the rich world were worth $300 billion a year--about equal to all the economies in sub-Saharan Africa...
...While I applaud gm for going hybrid, i question the wisdom of debuting the technology in an SUV. Twenty miles per gallon (12 liters/100 km) is nothing to brag about, regardless of vehicle size. I get 32 m.p.g. driving a Chevy Malibu in rural Vermont. By putting hybrid power in an SUV, GM shows it still doesn't quite get the idea. George Simpson, Pittsfield, Vermont...
...issue is extremely urgent, Huang and other analysts say. China's leaders face a daunting series of challenges including rising inflationary pressure, swelling bubbles in the stock and property markets and highly uneven development that has seen incomes in urban and coastal areas triple or quadruple those in the rural hinterland. Not only must Hu attempt to engineer a soft landing for China's steaming economy and markets, he must also ensure that the myriad problems facing the hundreds of millions of Chinese left on the margins of the boom - lack of access to health care, education and clean drinking...
...Dastardly Dynasts Your essay, "Heirs Apparent" [Oct. 1], made me think deeply about the future of Japan and reminded me of the medieval past: in the Heian period, a warrior class descended from rural peasants diminished the power of rich ruling families. History shows that the privileged and protected can't evade changing times forever. Masaaki Otani, Tadotsu, Japan...
...race for months, and while Jindal will never admit it, his ethnicity likely played at least some part in his defeat. Despite a college-era conversion from Hinduism to Catholicism and his close alignment with the passionately pro-life wing of the GOP, Jindal could not convince rural voters in the state's north, who had voted for white supremacist David Duke less than two decades earlier, to give him their support. Not easily dissuaded, Jindal ran for and won the congressional seat vacated by Senator David Vitter one year later. He was elected freshman-class president, and within...