Word: ruralization
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...hotels, cruise ships, hospitals and restaurants around the world. Locals like to boast that the district in its heyday made 1 of every 3 chairs sold. The demand provided ample work for a tight-knit network of 1,100 highly specialized small firms. And it transformed a once modest rural area into one of Italy's richest and most dynamic commercial zones, a district with virtually full employment and a chronic shortage of skilled labor. "We were the China of Europe," boasts Giulio Fanin, an entrepreneur who makes machine tools for chair manufacturers...
...going out into the world and collect[ing] real data.” Action research refers to the use of clinical trial methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of programs in the field. Action research studies also focus on tailoring programs to better reflect the local culture. For example, in rural India, where income is determined by crop and animal breeding cycles, researchers are studying “how much flexibility microfinance clients can handle over loan payments that doesn’t increase the likelihood of default,” said assistant professor of economics Erica Field, who also spoke...
...Harvard College. Perhaps meant to evoke the image of a quaint, tight-knit liberal arts collegium in the pastoral beauty of rural New England? If Harvard’s COFHE scores are about nothing so much as nomenclature, this should clearly do the trick...
...urban-rural income divide is at its widest since the People's Republic was founded in 1949, with farmers earning just one-third of what city dwellers do. To try to quell rising dissent, Hu has unveiled a massive New Deal for farmers, promising billions of dollars in central-government aid for "building a new socialist countryside." The reference to rural socialism was pure marketing magic; many farmers miss the good old days when nearly everyone was poor-but at least the state provided a safety net, known in China as an "iron rice bowl...
...nation's rising social inequalities and Hu's own call for rural socialism has finally given the old guard its opportunity. Last summer, leading Marxist economist Liu Guoguang fired a warning shot: "We must make sure leaders at every level are really Marxists, instead of having a red [communist] surface and white [capitalist] core." Then, noted Peking University law professor Gong Xiantian assailed the property law draft for "copying capitalist civil law like a slave...