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...manufacture it," he says. Developing nations already have their product - nature, culture, tradition - and all that's required to profit is a bit of investment in infrastructure and Internet marketing. "The market comes to these countries, then wanders around depositing foreign-exchange income wherever it's directed, including poor rural areas," Lipman says. That's a handsome return on investment for any country, developing or otherwise...
...India's youth vote, a demographic that is too large for any political party to ignore. Of India's 1 billion citizens, 40% are under 18; 70% are under 35. In the cities, voting rates among younger citizens are as many as 20 points lower than they are in rural areas, but growing. "Urban youth is emerging as a key electoral group," says Jai Mrug, an election analyst based in Mumbai. "It could be a huge sample of voters freshly added to the polls." The country's political future belongs to those who understand that their issues are India...
High rates of illiteracy in rural areas compel the Taliban to rely on more traditional means of communication. Threatening phone calls to influential tribal elders are supplemented with pamphlets and audio cassettes containing pro-Taliban songs and poems. Those who would dare cooperate with the authorities are reminded they are likely to be killed...
...prod Mexico to improve its general public health system once the epidemic has passed. The country of 110 million people still has fewer than two doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, almost half the average of countries belonging to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In rural states and Oaxaca and Veracruz, where Mexico's first swine-flu cases (and first death) are believed to have emerged in late March and early April, access to physicians and nurses is even more threadbare. The nation's public health budget is about 3% of GDP, again about half...
...Although the media have paid much attention to the problems inherent to American public education since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, the public eye has been largely turned on the difficulties and injustices plaguing the country’s underfunded urban school districts. Rural public education, however, poses its own unique set of challenges—and, at the risk of sounding trite, opportunities. In just over three months, I’ll begin teaching in the Mississippi Delta, and even attempting to imagine what my “experience” will...