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.
They are also reported to be handing out guns to the rural population in Putumayo.
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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.
The country's predominantly rural population failed to understand the long-term constitutional issues involved.
More than four-fifths of the rural population of 675m work on tiny plots.
By jettisoning political ideology and getting off the backs of the rural population, China made quick improvements in living standards.
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.
He has bought protection from local and federal authorities and has become a popular folk hero among the rural population.
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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.
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But the vast mass of the rural population remains impoverished.
Historically, China has had major social disruptions when the rural and urban gap widened too much, and the rural population felt that they were ignored by the central government.
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.
It doesn't help that an estimated two-thirds of China's rural population lacks access to piped water -- a development failure that has become one of the leading causes of death among children under the age of five.
On the sensitive issue of income distribution, the researchers say the rate of wealth growth for the rural population will outstrip that of the cities this year, but the gap between rich and poor is still widening.
The rural population is growing it has risen by 17% since 1971 compared with population growth of 4% in England as a whole but much of the growth has come from people moving out of cities and from the spread of retirement homes.
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.
By using Sybase 365 mBanking, DDBL can now reach the rural and unbanked population 45 per cent of them are mobile phone users.
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