Pakistan is an agrarian economy and has rural population largely dependent on natural resources.
Brazil, with its large rural population, is among the countries most severely affected by such protectionism.
It has yet to mean as much for the ill-educated, elderly and rural population.
Minorities, they point out, tend to vote Democratic, whereas the dwindling white, rural population is largely Republican.
He said the future challenge was to develop care models best suited to the county's rural population.
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They've applied for the water rights in seven rural valleys where cows and horses outnumber the rural population.
Better, wider roads have raised expectations among the rural population, too, and among those living close to the highways.
More than four-fifths of the rural population of 675m work on tiny plots.
India has established dedicated satellite systems for education and tele-medicine delivery, which can reach even the most remote rural population.
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With the largest rural population in the world, India is perhaps the primary market for the iSlate and similar products.
Over half of the rural population is literate and the urban literacy ratio stood at almost three-fourth in the province.
It is the rural population, however, that makes the Chinese numbers so big, and selling to them is another matter.
He said that literacy rate in rural Sindh is alarmingly low and that more than half or 58% rural population of Sindh is illiterate.
So will the latest food security scheme aimed at providing subsidised food grains to 75% of the rural population and half of the urban households work?
The controversial project will more than double electrical output in Ethiopia, where less than two percent of the rural population has access to the grid.
Mr Putin has increasingly relied on the support of the rural population and industrial workers, as well as the 40% or so of the electorate who are elderly.
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In the last two decades, the rural population has decreased by a third to just 2, 675 people, with villages that once had populations of around 300 now housing 40 or fewer inhabitants.
In a report, which follows a major public consultation, the body says more affordable housing, training opportunities for young people and financial support to provide care and services for an ageing rural population are vital.
Within the initiative of Joint Programme targeted at creation of new income generation opportunities and promotion of improved agricultural practices, 24 rural farmers and dehkhans (small farmers) in target areas were selected to form a network of agriculture extension agents (rural consultants) responsible for provision of consultancy services to rural population and solutions to the problems they might face in application of new agricultural practices.
On the domestic front, China's rural poor population has declined for the first time since the poverty line was raised in 2011, although poverty alleviation work remains arduous, Xinhua news agency reports.
Universal service funds (USF) are set up by levies on telecoms in individual countries, which are then used to increase consumer access based on criteria such as income distribution, rural and urban population ratios, literacy and geography.
The state association has not tallied the number of combined teams in recent years but acknowledged at least 100 new teams for the 2012-13 school year alone, many of them in rural areas where population is scarcer.
The population in rural Kansas is shrinking, as family farms give way to industrial-sized farms that require fewer workers.
HarVa, a start-up that focuses primarily on skill development, community-based farming and microfinance for the population of rural India.
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In the past, it was rare for Chinese to leave their home regions, and four-fifths of the population was rural.
The data analyzed showed that in some countries less than 50% of the secondary schoolage population in rural areas is attending school.
Even in the sunbelt, however, many rural areas are losing population.
Where half the population of rural areas have no safe water.
The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
Much of Africa's population lives in rural villages and farms miles from the nearest clinic.
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