Word: ruralism
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...point, Farmer said that the development of a hydroelectric dam in rural Haiti had driven locals out of a fertile valley. These people, the supposed beneficiaries of the project, had neither water nor electricity afterwards, he said...
...spending on education, health care and other programs is even smaller as a proportion of the economy than previously thought. And industrialization is taking a toll. Several industries, including steel and automobiles, have been growing so rapidly that they now have problems of overcapacity. Still, with 300 million rural laborers in China eager to join the industrialization push, and at wages that are a small fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on jobs and salaries worldwide is likely to continue. Ford's late-January restructuring, involving 30,000 job losses, demonstrates that theme...
...senior vice president and Iraq project director. "It's a stepping-stone for moving into the rest of Iraq when the time is right." Last November a television campaign funded by the Kurdistan Development Corp. was launched on U.S. networks with the slogan "The other Iraq" and languid rural scenes that contrasted sharply with the war-ravaged Iraq on the news. Still, that message has not translated for some. "People in the States think I'm living in the desert, one step ahead of someone who wants to put me in an orange jumpsuit," says Harry Schute, a consultant...
...States in the rural Midwest, for example, were given flexibility in meeting the act’s requirements because their school districts were a part of the Small Rural School Achievement program, according to the study...
However, this same flexibility does not apply to school districts that are a part of the Rural Low Income Schools program, which include poorer rural regions predominantly made up of minorities in the Southeast and Southwest, the study said...