Word: ruralization
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Though Griffith insisted that his was “not a racist film,” objectors have pointed to his upbringing in rural Kentucky as the son of a Confederate veteran as indication of a questionable agenda...
...looking dern and being it are entirely different things. Clues to Thailand's recent rural past are everywhere?witness motorcycle-taxi drivers in Bangkok sewing fishing nets as they wait for their next fare. This is still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall...
...less than a dollar a day?the conventional definition of the desperately poor?428 million were in India and neighboring South Asian nations. Within a short drive of some of India's new, glittering, urban landscapes, chronically poor villages where children are malnourished can be found. Poverty in rural India is breaking social bonds, driving mass migration to cities, and fueling lawlessness and violence. As Chidambaram told TIME last week: "Our villages were neglected for too long. There is deep concern in rural India?you can even use the word unrest...
...taxes. Yet the thrust of his budget was aimed at the poor. Among his new proposals: a plan to extend irrigation to 10 million hectares of agricultural land over five years?a move that could, theoretically, give employment to 10 million Indians in the countryside. Other measures include boosting rural employment, building 6 million houses for the poor by 2009, bringing electricity to 125,000 villages, and nearly doubling the funding for a program that encourages poor children to stay in school by giving them free lunches...
...Measured by the only test that matters?its effect on helping the poor?what impact will Chidambaram's budget have? Some of his proposals have been widely welcomed. By asking banks to increase rural credit by 30% this year, Chidambaram gives hope to India's cash-starved farmers. But other plans are more controversial. The Finance Minister argued that subsidies "provide a measure of protection for the poor." Economic reformers didn't like that. "Our concern for fighting poverty should not mean that we continue with inefficient subsidies," says Jayaprakash Narayan, founder of Lok Satta, an NGO that focuses...