Articles Archive for May 2012
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In her expensive Burberry mid-season three-quarter length coat, designer shoes and bag, the 40-something woman looks as though she is heading for the nearest posh restaurant to have dinner with her husband.
The only indication that the trendy woman is actually having an affair is the bunch of red roses in her left hand that she throws in the bin a few minutes later, after cautiously …
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The British academic and development practitioner Robert Chambers, in his book Rural Development: Putting the Last First, wrote in 1983:
Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people’s knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty.’
“Rural poverty deserves a higher priority than defence. Yet we found that …