Transistor radios and television sets have made their way to the most remote rural areas.

Whereas in outlying rural areas the rate was still rather high, in Beirut, it was virtually zero.

Major challenges at present are the ratio of poor households remains high mainly in the rural, upland and ethnic minority areas which are faced with economic and social difficulties.

In particular, African countries must shift their efforts towards small scale infrastructure (e.g., rural feeder roads), designed to improve access and accessibility for those in remote areas.

To achieve this, special attention is given to rural and remote areas and to minority groups.

A new technology based on the exploitation of marine currents, which had recently been developed and tested in Italy, would be applied to bring electricity to a number of remote rural areas on islands in Asia.

Even migration to distant places and remote cultures is nothing new.

Programme for the Development of Rural Areas

Unemployment in rural areas

The idea of supplemental food production beyond rural farming operations and distant imports is not new and has been used during war times and the Great Depression when food shortage issues arose.

Food safety in rural areas Agro processing Information exchange soils, climate and conservation agriculture.

The challenge is to raise sufficient venture capital and to identify a sufficient number of knowledgeable entrepreneurs willing to seize the opportunity to develop the agricultural sectors and run biodiesel refineries in remote rural areas.

This has been particularly challenging in remote and insecure areas.

Rural Health Centers obviously are more concentrated in rural areas (378 with 5636 beds in rural areas compared to 135 with 2250 beds in urban areas).

Migration increases remittances to rural areas and strengthens market linkages between rural and urban areas.

The Committee urges that the State party continue to develop the health system, ensuring the provision of the highest standard of health for all children, paying special attention to children in rural and geographically remote areas as well as those belonging to low income families.

Article 14 Women in rural areas

This is more so the case in rural areas.

For the first time in history, more people live in urban, rather than rural, environments.

Of these, 248,964 (99.4 ) lived in urban areas and 1,384 (0.6 ) in rural areas.

He used some of his vast wealth to shower money on rural areas. Rural people, grateful for his largesse, voted for him twice.

Even rural areas here are densely populated.

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And when I meet the mothers in so many of these remote places, I'm really struck by the things that we have in common.

We also think there's very big potential for energy farms, especially in remote land where there happens to be a lot of sun.

It is found at high altitudes in remote areas of Tibet and possibly also in Nepal.

During the period under review, numerous health outreach programmes in remote areas had been cut off.

TB centers in urban areas outnumber those in rural areas.

The incidence of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas (54 per cent of rural and 30 per cent of urban households can be classified as poor).

Other Philippine languages, including various Visayan languages are also used, especially in radio due to its ability to reach remote rural locations that might otherwise not be serviced by other kinds of media.

More explicit legislation about the primacy of the Covenant in the Greek legal system might help to guarantee that the Covenant was observed by judges at all levels, even those in the most remote rural areas.

The new policy documents of the Ministry of Education and Health place an explicit focus on the rural areas. The main micro credit providing institutions also have a pronounced emphasis on rural areas.

We made a guess. The guess was that schools in remote areas do not have good enough teachers.

Digital mapping technology is having the most profound impact on the world s most remote and undeveloped regions.

Singapore lost its hinterland and was no longer the administrative or economic capital of the Malay Peninsula.

Establish training centres and raise funds to support and educate community based health workers in remote areas.

Of these, 1,952 (81.6 ) lived in urban areas and 440 (18.4 ) in rural areas.

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58 146. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

60 138. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

56 129. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

Food often remains unavailable in rural areas.

There is a wide income disparity between the rural and urban regions.

Around 85 of the population live in rural areas.

This was especially widespread in rural areas.