With this substantial growth, the government is also challenged to make decisions in how to expand prosperity in a way that ends extreme poverty. The Growth Pole Diagnostic is an analytic and advisory tool that helps to inform government choices.
Rural development of the country (and in any country) is first and foremost the best way to get farm goods to the market quickly and economically. Fresh foods are essential to health and development, and the rural country needs to have light, power, water and other necessities for communication, transportation and health.
But that is only the beginning of development, because a country whose people live in poverty and ignorance, is a country that is destined to whither on the vine. Just like we should not waste our natural resorces, we can not wast our greatest resource, the talent and giftedness of our people.
A government is necessary for building infrastructure in a country, and especially for rural areas. Generally the government directs the project, hiring many contractors. By developing areas within the country, the product of the country increases, and the country can increase its trade with other countries as well. This increases our country's wealth providing us capital for future development.
The government should not neglect the people, it is bad policy, and this alienation, especially in a time of need, will grow a bad outlook and negative feeling that is hard to dissolve. Internal goodwill of the citizens is essential to the unity and resolve of the nation. You notice in times of trouble and of war, it is generally the rural men who take up the cause to fight. Neglecting them and their families is not the way to build pride and loyalty.
People appointed to public service, must be aware that theirs is a responsibility to serve the common good of the nation or community. When the public is cheated by the fraudulent practices of public service, they are cheated with their own money. The confidence of the nation is greatly diminished.
An example of the very terrible use of government services is in the case of New Orleans. It is a terrible blot on the name and reputation of our country, that our poor people are neglected, and this city lies in ruin.
When the poor fight for recognition in a country dedicated to accepting the poor of the world (motto of the Statue of Liberty)
people take heart in the battle and join sides to defeat the oppression of poverty. Many of our greatest leaders came from a poor and rural background. I have written a small article about a favorite son of America, that answers part of your question.
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