Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government of Mali has tentatively selected the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) to advise that northwest African nation on rural health services in a four-year, multimillion dollar project, one of the institute's largest ever...
...project will be HIID's first attempt at a "purely public health program," Eddison said. In the past the institute has primarily provided economic advice to developing countries. More recently, the HIID expanded its assistance to include limited agricultural development in kenya and rural development in the Sudan...
...institute hopes to provide the village health workers with the skills of "barefoot doctors, "Joseph said. "Simple activities make a lot of difference in the rural regions," where many deaths are caused by malnutrition, malaria, diabetes and diarrhea, he said. Drought Stricken...
Quebec's claim to a distinct identity has for centuries made it Canada's problem child. Novelist MacLennan described the historical relationship between French-and English-speaking Canadians as "the two solitudes." Roman Catholic, French-speaking, stamped by a different culture and tradition, the mostly rural Quebecois lived a separate life from that of the province's Protestant, English-speaking minority, which centered its activities around Montreal and the nearby Eastern Townships. For the Anglophone elite, the hub of Quebec life was Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street, within easy distance of the banks and big businesses that they dominated almost...
Much of the province's development dates from the early 1960s, when it underwent an expansion of education and state enterprises that French-speaking Quebecois call la Révolution Tranquille (the Quiet Revolution). With the door suddenly open to new opportunities, the church-oriented conservative rural habitant rapidly evolved into the secular, outgoing urban Quebecois, with typically North American tastes for big cars, color-television sets and le rock. Quebeckers trained in economics and sociology thronged into the glass-and-steel cubicles of a mushrooming provincial bureaucracy. But despite this rattrapage (catching up), English-speaking Canadians retained their dominant role...