Rural China Education Foundation works in a small number of sites to experiment in-depth with innovative models of rural education. They focus on developing teaching methods that make rural education more relevant to rural students’ lives.
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This is the year in which Europe will either fall apart or emerged stronger. I give it 75% that it emerges as a stronger union but the risk of collapse is still there. Germany has the key to solve the problem because of the size of its economy, its saving rate and its export volume. Germany has to decide on whether it continues to transfer some of its wealth in order to create markets for its exports or it let’s Europe fall apart and ends up with an overvalued currency and deteriorated markets. Already today it started paying negative interest rates which is a prelude in my view to a huge rise in the DM should it be born again. Tough choice. I think Germany can actually both save Europe and make money by buying underpriced Italian and Spanish bonds and selling them after stabilization. It can do what the FED did with many financial institutions, make a profit by providing much needed liquidity at a critical time.
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Posted by David Oliver - September 27, 2008 2:18 am - #
There is certainly a need for programs like this as many kids in rural areas of China don’t get access to a decent education. Back in 2001 I organized a bike ride through western Sichuan to raise awareness and money for health and education for Tibetan minorities there. Afterwards we also had a program to collect secondhand PCs from companies in Beijing and send to schools down there.
One has to wonder where the Chinese governments priorities lie when they can spend huge amounts of money on glamor projects like the Olympics or putting a man in space while the quality of health & education services in the countryside are collapsing.