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Mixed progress but also new hope in reducing rural poverty : Comments
By Kanayo Nwanze, published 6/4/2011The world's poor are gradually rising out of poverty and moving into cities.
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Equity is about distribution of resources. It makes no sense having rural populations migrating to cities, where there a less self-sustaining ways to grow food, network with community, prepare the world as we march further into the millennium.
Education - once claimed to be the revolution for those disadvantaged is a misconcept if the infrastructure required to sustain the end-game; which is to find work is not addressed.
As we see in the middle east rise in conflicts, food, work and a quality of life in a peaceful environment is wanted by all.
We are at a point of circumference. While we once may have had excuses, suggesting it was all about education, none of this works when it is the educated now - be it living in underdeveloped or developed nations finding themselves in the same place as they might have been without an education.
Technology on top of this is not helping. The access to opportunity reflects an increasing divide, and in some ways is contributing to critical areas of that divide where there is now danger [more than ever] of procedural bureaucrat practices at the expense of people's needs.
To me it appears that the more connected we are through technolgy, the more we take the value of human capital for granted and isolate potentional through practice that result in a disconnectivity we we will pay dearly for in the future.
Hope all those attending your discussion Kanayo Nwandse. We need to cut through the tokensims.
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