Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Africa's blight and decay also extend to projects and equipment built or financed by well-meaning foreign countries. In rural Senegal, a $250,000 U.S.-made solar-powered irrigation system lies idle, mainly because of maintenance problems. Just outside Lusaka, in Zambia, hundreds of government vehicles sit abandoned in a parking lot. Some are wrecks, but many others are almost new, missing only a clutch plate or a windshield. Desperately short of foreign exchange, the government of President Kaunda prefers to import new vehicles through aid programs rather than buy the spare parts necessary to repair...
...most other countries, the problem has been outright neglect of agriculture in favor of more glamorous industrial development. As population growth and urbanization have surged out of control, the plight of rural areas has worsened. Often the state pays artificially low prices for farm commodities in order to finance urban-development schemes and to lower prices for people in the cities. One result: the importation of food has tripled in Africa during the past decade. Nigeria, which was once largely self-sufficient, spends $2 billion a year on imported food. In terms of per capita income and the availability...
Under Houphouët-Boigny's leadership, the Ivory Coast successfully developed a mixed economy that encouraged foreign investment, local private owner ship and economic diversification. Unlike many African leaders, he assiduously en couraged a strong agricultural sector and spent the money necessary to maintain roads, rural electrification and irrigation systems. Houphouët-Boigny was also not afraid to keep strong ties with the country's former colonial master. There are more French in the Ivory Coast now than when the country became independent...
...carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick up Kelly Braggs, 20, stranded in her rural home and suffering from a serious pituitary deficiency. The train then backed up 33 miles to Lafayette, " where Braggs was hospitalized...
...distance. "The poor people are dirty," Constable explained, "and to approach one of the cottages is almost insufferable." Blythe groups Wordsworth with Constable in regarding the English countryside as Eden, polluted by the presence of inferior Eves and Adams. Even William Hazlitt, an essayist with a political conscience, thought rural England was full of louts. Pinched by poverty, exhausted by labor, "all country people hate each other," he maintained...