.... The Green Revolution introduced in the 1960s and the economic liberalization of the 1990s deepened rural inequalities, creating fertile ground for right-wing populism. More recently, however, economic vulnerability has catalyzed a reassertion of farmer and rural identities over religious affiliations...

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...Susanne Klien Civil society groups have helped meet social needs left unaddressed by the official response to the 2011 triple disaster. Their influence may be changing traditional patterns of rural neglect. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University...

... agribusiness agriculture apartheid inequality land reform restitution rural land rights African National Congress Zimbabwe 181 Since the end of apartheid, South African land reform has struggled and so far failed to overcome extreme inequalities and historical injustices . . . Stalled Land...

... Press , 2015 © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California William Reno Africa book review Marc Sommers Outcast Majority marginalized youth development postwar rural urban Government officials and development experts have...

... organizations Khudi Bacha Khan Educational Foundation Rural Support Programs Network Islam extremism madrassas development 144 [L]ocal people acting within civil society groups are responding to violent reli- gious extremism in unprecedented ways. Can Civil Society Tame Violent Extremism...

...Anirudh Krishna For generations, this urban bias in policy making, inherited from colonial times, has stunted the growth of human capital among the vast rural populations of [developing] countries. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California...

... of the University of California Luc Christiaensen Shantayanan Devarajan Africa income inequality poverty resources agriculture statistics population rural urban development 181 Direct dividend transfer programs are promising as an additional instrument to reduce inequality and increase...

... Deng Xiaoping rural urban social mobility migration economic reform property education 229 The country s sharp increase in income inequality is not the result of the rich getting richer while the poor become poorer. China s Post-Socialist Inequality martin king whyte Since the death...

...George J. Gilboy; Eric Heginbotham Land reforms aimed at raising rural incomes and promoting urbanization could accelerate the crisis already building in China's cities. If urban legal and social reforms fail to keep pace, China could face intensifying conflict between a burgeoning class of have...

... discovering slave labor on Amazon cattle ranches. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Brazil landless movement Cardoso Lula land reform Amazon sem-terra agriculture rural Workers' Party 86 Over the last two decades, the Movement...

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