Policy in Perspective from The LBJ School of Public Affairs

Tag: Rural Development

A Lesson on Religious Violence from South Asia

Post author By Margaret Fox
Post date April 14, 2017
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Khushi Kabir

Photo: persecutionbd This past week, a proponent of religious and ethnic tolerance came to University of Texas Law School to discuss religiously motivated violence in Bangladesh. The Law School’s Rapoport Center hosted the talk by Khushi Kabir (pictured above), activist and public face of Nijera Kori, a Bangladeshi NGO that educates and mobilizes the rural poor […]

Tags Atheism, Bangladesh, Civil War, Hinduism, Independence, Islam, Muslim Extremism, Religious Intolerance, Religious Minorities, Religious Violence, Rural Development, South Asia, Victim blaming

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A New Rural Development Framework for the 21st Century

Post author By Beatrice Halbach
Post date July 6, 2015
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First in a series by Beatrice Halbach (LBJ MPAff Student) covering her internship at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In the past several decades a number of countries developed extremely rapidly, completing processes of industrialization, urbanization, and social transformation in 20 or 30 years. Comparable change took centuries in today’s developed countries. China is the most vivid example […]

Tags China, FAO, International Development, OECD, Rural Development, Summer Internships, Sustainable Development Goals