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I'm interested in rural development, but I don't see how it can in fact be envisaged without consideration of urban development too.

This is a great diary, Bruce, an original, revealing slice through the pie. I've been thinking more and more lately that we need to move forward with concrete proposals/projects, and that these must concern local development (in rich or poor regions) in sustainable agriculture and industry. This can be seen in contrast with the financial capitalism hoax-fest; in this diary, you succeed in opposing it to "whatever it is" that makes the US establish precinct stations around the globe and tell Europe they need to help fight for them.

Just one thing: when I gogole "arc of the sun" I don't find much beyond a link back here or to DK. Er, this may be semantic quibbling, but can you explain arc of the sun a bit for dummies?

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 07:17:27 AM EST
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... than the other way around, if we stay with the conventional pigeon holes of urban development as cities and big cities and rural development as productive countryside and small towns.

And, indeed, if looking for where to generate a positive cycle of growth between the two, the interaction between the countryside and market town is a good place to look for the bootstrap.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 08:01:37 AM EST
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... longitude lifted off a globe, but holding its shape,  that part in the middle of the big arc of the whole world that lies between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, that's the Arc of the Sun, where the sun is directly overhead at least once, and sometimes twice, a year.

Metaphorically, if you lay out a conventional Eurocentric map with the Atlantic Ocean in one piece and the Pacific Ocean split into two pieces at opposite ends, and you take the low-income and middle-income nations that lie wholly or partly inside the tropics, you get a big sweep of countries from China in the upper right through Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Archipelago through India and Southwest Asia and Africa and South America and the Caribbean and parts of North America and if you step back and squint, and especially if at its tallest stretch as it passes through Africa you kind of focus on Central Africa, its kinda like an arc.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 at 04:56:02 PM EST
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OK, thanks. Did you invent the expression? (I'm still wondering why it doesn't come up in Google).

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 at 05:04:00 PM EST
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... and elaborated it, but the elaboration is stuck in peer review (not the phrase as such, the balance trade institution policy).


Utsukushikereba sore de ii
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 at 06:36:53 PM EST
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