https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks Some curiosities and information about country life in the world en-us 2017-03-29 23:56:59 UTC 2026-02-21 00:36:40 UTC hello@padlet.com victor_hilton_18 https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/163574556 In addition to urban sprawl, China has been paying special attention to the last decades for rural development with a hope of making the countryside another engine of economic growth.]]> 2017-03-30 00:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/163574556 victor_hilton_18 https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/165018967 Nearly one in five rural Bosnians is poor, and a rural dweller in Bosnia is twice as likely to be poor as his city-dwelling compatriot. That matters when you consider that the poverty threshold is based on minimum calorie requirements and other basic life essentials. And it matters even more in a country where 60 percent of people still live in the countryside, unchanged since Yugoslav times.]]> 2017-04-05 23:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/165018967 victor_hilton_18 https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/165019587 Life in the Countryside Statistics on developing countries make for grim, if not outright depressing, reading. Cambodia is burdened with a poverty rate of officially 35% (CIA World Fact Book). Poverty is determined by income, and the threshold in Cambodia is $3 per day, sometimes it is put as low as $2 a day, which, of course, would translate into a lower percentage of poor people. Comparing this with the U. S., where the poverty rate is 12% and the line is drawn at around $12,000 p.a. for a 4-person household, one must logically come to the conclusion that life in Cambodia, especially in the countryside, is permanent economic distress and marked by deprivation and hunger on a large scale.I cannot nor do I want to contradict those statistics. I assume that they are close to the truth. But the question arises whether all these people, especially the rural population, live a life of deprivation and hunger. I am pretty sure this holds true for the urban poor. After all most of them came to the city to find the jobs they couldn’t find in their villages. A lot of them end up on the streets, living in ramshackle huts in unsanitary, and by modern standards, subhuman conditions (what we then call slums). Especially in times like these jobs have become even scarcer. Even the people having a job, working in the garment industry, for instance, can’t be the envy of the rural people when eight or more girls share one room.]]> 2017-04-05 23:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/165019587 victor_hilton_18 https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/165020047 2017-04-05 23:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/victor_hilton_18/Bookmarks/wish/165020047