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US News & World Report (March 20)

2017/ 03/ 22 by jd in Global News

Though large gaps exist between urban and rural populations, common perceptions, like “urban poverty,” are often rooted in misconception. In the U.S., poverty is actually “higher in rural areas…. In fact, levels of rural poverty were often double those in urban areas throughout the 1950s and 1960s.” In 2015, the gap had narrowed, but the poverty rate still stood at 16.7% of the rural population and 13.0% of the urban population.

 

Bloomberg (December 15)

2015/ 12/ 17 by jd in Global News

“A surge in Tokyo’s elderly population over the next 10 years may overwhelm urban healthcare systems; while depopulation and stagnant economies in rural Japan are set to leave nursing homes and hospitals half-empty.” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing “an audacious idea” of motivating urban elderly to relocate to Japan’s countryside.

 

Washington Post (May 13)

2015/ 05/ 15 by jd in Global News

“Amtrak long ago should have installed automatic safeguards against reckless driving on a route like the Northeast Corridor, which is heavily trafficked and passes through dense urban centers.” The fatal Amtrak derailment provides “lessons about the United States’ negligent stewardship of its roads, rails, bridges and tunnels.”

 

New York Times (January 10, 2014)

2014/ 01/ 10 by jd in Global News

“For decades, Japan has defended its 778 percent tariffs on rice with a kind of religious zeal.” That may be coming to an end. With talks approaching over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, “urban Japanese — and even some farmers — are questioning exactly what those tariffs protect.”

 

Institutional Investor (November Issue)

2013/ 11/ 27 by jd in Global News

“After three decades of breakneck economic growth, China is cleaning up its act. Lately, Beijing has been rolling out a raft of environmental regulations, chief among them June’s announcement of ten measures to improve urban air quality, including a target to reduce emissions from highly polluting industries by 30 percent within four years.”

 

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