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[ 24 Jun 2012 | 2 Comments | 5,281 views]

British-born Asian premier league footballer, Zesh Rehman, named in May 2010 as one of the 50 World Cup Bid Ambassadors for The FA’s World Cup 2018 bid, talks to The Bridge Magazine in an exclusive interview.
Best known as the first British-born Asian to play in the Englandpremier league, Zesh Rehman was first spotted by a talent scout at the age of twelve. He debuted at …

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[ 5 May 2012 | 6 Comments | 51,511 views]

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 …