While also far (approximately 640 km) from BMC headquarters, the Ghanzi area did not experience as much hardships in accessing markets due to BMC's Direct Cattle Purchase Scheme which buys cattle directly from farmers and therefore reduces transport costs.
While Italy lacks the kind of widespread grassroots protest movement typified by Spain's Indignados and 15M ("I don't have the impression there's as much personal hardship here; on the whole most people are still able to get by"), Giancarlo says people here are "finally starting to get angry.
Although all constituents, even the unemployed, will feel a touch of sympathy for their representatives when they are forced to work extra days, it is not as much of a hardship as some might think.
Families with inadequate resources typically feed the children first, shielding them from hardship as much as possible.
And Indonesia has recently ended 32 years of domination by Suharto, freeing the press, holding free elections and, six weeks ago, democratically choosing a new president.In all of these countries, reformers were motivated by principles as much as by economic hardship.
Similar measures, quietly published in the past, suggest among other things that safety-net programs have played a large and mostly overlooked role in restraining hardship: as much as half of the reported rise in poverty since 2006 disappears.
Not surprising, then, that eating meat has become a symbol of triumph over hardship, as much a part of China's transformation as the towering skyscrapers and glistening cities. Grandparents who once went hungry stuff their grandchildren with the treats they lacked and top of the list is pork.
What they went through, he continues, was as much of an emotional hardship as a logistical one.
Shielding them completely is both impossible and unhealthy––children learn by example how to cope with hardship just as much as they learn how to cope with the good times.
There may be much hardship as a result.
He put the neighbourhood's uneasy calm down to simple hardship: "People don't have as much money, so they don't get as much done".
