Tag: Rural Areas

One Solution to the Digital Divide: Teens

Gisel Guerrero Zavala is a 15-year-old in El Paso who loves video games and computer programming. She is…

Violence in Rural Mexico Ensnares Doctors, Causing Worker Shortages

“They forget about a patient’s primary right, which is to be cared for wherever they are, and it’s…

Afghanistan Tries to Stamp Out Opium Again

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For years, opium has been the monster too big to slay. One Afghan government after…

A Long Walk Through Japan’s Kii Peninsula

Stand on the summit of Mount Hinodegatake, look inland across the Kii Peninsula, and there before you are…

Far From the Big City, New Economic Life

Research by Rebecca Diamond, an economist at Stanford University, and Enrico Moretti, an economist at the University of…