In a report for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Andrew Lilico of Europe Economics argues that the housing crisis is a myth stemming from population overestimates in 2000.

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The politics and still more the economics of Colombia's rural violence are complex.

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Her impact, at AID and the Ford Foundation and with departments of the Indonesian government, grew out of her deep understanding of village peasant economics, the importance of women in the rural economy, and her love of the people she met in her work.

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If Ofcom do introduce this it provides us a business plan and economics to actually go out there and deploy mesh networks in rural areas.

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But according to Lester Thurow, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the keynote speaker at the National Rural Electric Co-operative Association's annual meeting in Las Vegas, their competitive advantage over private power companies has probably gone.

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Given the increasingly conspicuous inequalities emerging in China as a result of the country's embrace of capitalism, it suits Mr Hu to appear to pour cold water on the idea of laisser-faire economics, blamed for a growing gap between rich and poor, between regions and between urban and rural areas.

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