Urban rural data suggests that the age at first marriage for males in the urban sector is slightly higher at 26 years than that for the rural sector at 25 years.

A vibrant rural sector generates local demand for locally produced goods and services.

The Government considered that boosting the rural sector was a priority and was conducting a programme to guarantee equal opportunities for rural women.

It is also important to have enabling production sector strategies, including those addressing rural development.

In the rural sector, community based initiatives bore testimony to the visible empowerment of women.

Despite decades of immense government support, Japan s rural sector cannot even aspire to feed its declining population.

We are strengthening the export sector, promoting investments to create jobs and speeding up rural economic development.

11.14 While these figures reflect the formal sector, the average monthly salary in the informal sector varies quite considerably according to industry as well as between rural and urban settings.

Aiming at reinforcing women's employment in agriculture, and, in general, in the rural sector, certain motives for rural women have been created by the Operational Programmes of the 3rd Community Support Framework.

Some youth state that the entrepreneurial spirit should be developed in rural areas, but not exclusively in the agricultural sector.

But, most important, rapid growth of the domestic market, especially the service sector, needs to largely replace the export sector as the employment engine pulling the rural population into the modern economy.

Seventy eight per cent of women in Mali lived in rural areas and played an important role in the informal sector.

Farmers should also look beyond their own farms, and participate in efforts of the whole rural sector to mitigate climate change.

Indeed, the private sector has a pivotal role to play in rural development, not just in Haiti but throughout the developing world.

Forestry, paper factories, and the agricultural sector (on which taxpayers spend around 3 billion euros annually) are politically sensitive to rural residents.

UNICEF will also reinforce cooperation with the World Bank in supporting national water supply and sanitation programmes, particularly in the rural sector.

In recent years, the Government of Vietnam has carried out many measures to develop the household economic sector, especially in rural areas.

Sustainability will be ensured through stakeholder involvement (including with private sector operators), central and local authorities government, rural communities and entrepreneurs and NGOs.

The rural village electrification programme is an integral part of the total power sector development in Pakistan in order to increase the productive capacity and socio economic standard of 70 percent of population living in the rural areas.

In these countries, informal sector enterprises are an important provider of employment and income opportunities not only in rural but also in urban areas.

That is why Haiti needs the private sector now more than ever to help rebuild both the country and the livelihoods of poor rural people.

As a cross cutting service, technical assistance is also provided for developing the agricultural machinery manufacturing sector by establishing rural technology centres for technology transfer and appropriate repair and maintenance of basic agricultural tools and agro processing equipment in rural areas.

In addition of the above mentioned funds, there are other sources of rural development funding, namely projects, Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's) and the informal sector characterized by interpersonal interactions at the rural level which allow and give incentives to credit initiatives.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

A vibrant rural sector can generate demand for locally produced goods and services, thereby stimulating sustainable employment growth in agro processing, services, and small scale manufacturing.

Sustainable Economic Opportunity The 30 indicators in the Sustainable Economic Opportunity category are divided into four sub categories Public Management, Business Environment, Infrastructure and Rural Sector.

In its Sector Plan, the Ministry of the Environment, privileges the involvement of rural communities, particularly women, in the management of the environment and natural resources.

Meanwhile, the agro industry sector is being improved in order to strengthen urban rural linkages, which are critical for job creation, poverty reduction and combating hunger.

The present health infrastructure in the public sector consists of 906 hospitals, 4,590 dispensaries, 550 Rural Health Centres, 5,308 Basic Health Units and 98,264 hospital beds.

However all recent policy documents of the Government such as the Education Sector Reforms Programme, the National Health Policy etc. place special emphasis on the rural areas.

The practical challenge comes from agriculture s two advantages that insulate the rural sector from global market forces and turn even the most urbane, liberal politicians into its defenders.

But workers were trapped in the rural sector they didn t have the resources to move, and their declining incomes so weakened aggregate demand that urban manufacturing unemployment soared.

In the area of employment, sector objectives are centered in the promotion of self employment through infrastructure rehabilitation, special in rural areas, and professional training and social security.

Rural tourism, handicraft and service sector, crayfish and fish growing, and food processing in small enterprises have been supported (these fields of business often largely employ women workers).

The Angolan Civil War (1975 2002) and the consequent deterioration of the rural economy and neglect of the farming sector dealt the final blow to the country s agricultural productivity.

The Government attached great importance to private sector development of agricultural markets, rural microfinance institutions and domestic credit markets, improvement of land tenure security and expansion of transport links.

Furthermore, the Committee noted with interest that the Government had held consultations with representatives of the rural sector by setting up village funds managed by representatives of the villagers.

Agriculture was cited as a typical sector having considerable potential not only for integration of mitigation and adaptation but also for integration of mitigation into economic and rural development.

The National Institute of Women in Costa Rica developed a plan for rural women that addresses gender mainstreaming in the agricultural sector, including capacity building exercises for all officials.

In most least developed countries, the poor are usually rural small scale subsistence farmers, as in sub Saharan Africa and other regions, or urban people engaged in the informal sector.

These services comprise post harvest systems in the food sector, fibre processing, product innovation and diversification for enhanced market access, and enhancing rural community livelihood through efficient agro supply chains.

In this respect, the relationship between international trade and environment is of great importance in the effort to stimulate activities in the rural sector of developing countries affected by desertification

Rural

Development of the agricultural sector, which employs a significant portion of the labour force in the least developed countries of South East Asia, is essential for poverty reduction, especially in rural areas.

Similarly, rural workers (3.9 ) are more prone to injuries diseases compared to urban workers (2.9 ). The majority of employed persons who suffered occupational injuries diseases was concentrated in the agriculture sector (42.9 ).