There may be cultural and traditional constraints, which discourage, for example, the enrollment of rural girls in schools. ... Lower salary levels in rural areas also discourage better-trained teachers from teaching in rural schools. ...
They were severely mentally ill, for instance, or end-of-the-line substance abusers-people incapable of caring for themselves, unable to keep themselves housed, and newly visible because of drastic changes in policies that had previously kept them institutionalized in hospitals or jails. ...
Introduction A common contemporary feature across many affluent countries with highly developed economies is the persistence of urban underclass neighborhoods. This phenomenon presents many national and local characteristics, nonetheless a number of common salient features can be pointed out: high u...
