Word: ruralization
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...right time to do it," they write. Like any persuasive call to arms, the report is peppered with success stories: Marmot cites the national pension plan in Botswana, which shows that even poor nations manage to provide income security to their elderly; and an Indian rural employment guarantee, which assures workers a minimum number of days of paid manual labor for the state, demonstrating that the poor can still give workers some measure of job security. With better organization, the report authors believe, biological problems like infectious disease can also be brought under control through social policy. Mexico...
...Latin America, programs are under way that are reminiscent of China's successful use of village-based health workers--the so-called barefoot doctors--a few decades ago, but today's workers have even better health-care tools. The mother of all community health efforts is India's National Rural Health Mission. Initiated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and spearheaded by the young, dynamic Minister of Health, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, the program has, in just over three years, mobilized more than half a million new community health workers, each known as an ASHA--short for "accredited social health activist...
...returning the river to its natural course. For Gidon Bromberg, founder of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME), a joint Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian environmental organization that is leading the effort to revive the Jordan, the future of water conservation in the Middle East lies in transforming rural economies. Right now the Israeli and Jordanian governments provide precious water at subsidized prices to their agricultural industries. Farming consumes the majority of the water supply but contributes little to national economies. Because they don't pay full price for their resources, farmers grow water-hungry crops such as garden vegetables...
...turn himself in. A magazine writer tells of the story she penned - and of how bad she smelled - after taking a three-day train journey to southern China in a car full of hogs. One reporter explains how he persuaded local officials to help him with a story on rural prostitution, usually a taboo subject. Another faced a barrage of threatening phone calls and had to move home when she dared to document the demolition of a group of Beijing homes and described how residents who resisted were being beaten. Such journalism is far from controversial, but it is also...
...track of grass and tar - its coaches are top flight and its athletes often share a working-class bond. Though Bolt is known for his fun-loving personal style - showcased in his controversial showboating celebration in the final strides of 100 meters victory - he grew up amidst the hardscrabble rural life of Jamaica's bauxite mines. "It's about resilience," says Beckford...