Word: ruralization
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...what I perceive as the biggest challenge to development: systematic violence. Two years ago, I traveled to Rwanda with five other undergraduates to observe an experiment in transitional justice in the aftermath of the country’s 1994 genocide. Some of us spent weeks monitoring proceedings in rural courts; others interviewed more than 40 survivors, prisoners and members of parliament about grassroots justice. It was an extraordinary opportunity for us to pursue serious field research in one of the world’s poorest nations, and to have our findings published in a leading journal. The CID was instrumental...
...large-scale poverty. As finance minister in the early 1990s, Singh began the effort to scale back India’s mammoth bureaucracy. At the same time, Singh acknowledges that much work needs to be done to spread the benefits of India’s economic growth to the rural majority...
...phrases "young kids" and "relaxing French holiday" are not often heard together. But if you're yearning for Gallic culture and cuisine while also wondering how to keep your children happy, then consider the Dordogne region in southwest central France. The kids will find diversions aplenty there, with warm rural smiles greeting their antics; and a hypermarket is never far away for baby food or Band-Aids. There's an abundance of affordable family accommodation, too, from self-catering farmhouses to bed-and-breakfasts. And for gourmets, this is gastronomic heaven: the Dordogne is duck, foie gras and truffle country...
...labored to eat then, and I labor to eat now." Sant Raj, Indian farmhand, saying government neglect of the rural poor drove him to vote against the Bharatiya Janata Party, which lost India's general election to Sonia Gandhi's Congress Party...
...pretty amped about the situation. I've never been asked if I want to vote." JOE HERBRAND, 23, at a voter-registration drive held by owners of the Isabella Queen strip club in rural Wisconsin...