villagization
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of villagization
Example Sentences
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Faced with such resistance, Mengistu recently bowed to pressure from the European Community and others by suspending resettlement and slowing the pace of villagization -- at least temporarily.
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"Mengistu and the party are determined to proceed with villagization," notes an Italian official.
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The Ethiopian leader has launched two vast population projects that could eventually reshape his nation: resettlement and "villagization."
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Addis Ababa's villagization program has relocated more than 3 million peasants from their scattered hilltop farms in Harar and neighboring provinces to centralized villages.
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It is wrong to conclude that the objective of villagization is to build socialism; this is something that can come about ! only over a very long time.
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