Word: rurality
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...breasts") was born poor in the East Java village of Kejapanan, Gempol. She started her performing career as a rock singer at age 12 but soon switched to dangdut, the beat-happy folk-pop blend of Indian, Arab and Malay music that has long been the sound of rural Indonesia. Originally the music of the lower class, complete with bawdy lyrics and sexually suggestive dancing, dangdut was cleaned up in the late 1970s and '80s when it was popularized by singers like Rhoma Irama, who diversified the music and turned the lyrics safely sweet. Cynical politicians began using dangdut musicians...
...that these slums are not so much their biggest ailment, as their biggest opportunity. The key to solving global poverty is not encoded in complex econometrics and it does not fit the lock on Uncle Sam’s vault—it is found in the slums and rural farms of the developing world, where economists and policymakers fear to tread...
Prohibitive laws plague most developing nations in both rural and urban areas, usually requiring 10-25 years of bureaucratic hassles to obtain property rights. In advanced nations this takes only weeks. Huge underground economies persist from Mexico to Russia, Manila to Cairo, and Haiti to Nigeria...
Before the 1970s, when the Communist Party took over in Vietnam, people were allowed to make films depicting rural poverty, Thuy says. After Party control, however, such images were censored as negative testimony...
...camera moves from scenes of destitute farmers in rural Vietnam to a scene of a Catholic nun caring for a man afflicted with leprosy. Against soothing music and the serene voice of a male narrator commenting on themes of death, kindness and happiness, stand searing images of rural poverty and illness a decade after...