Water In some areas sufficient rainfall is available for crop growth, but many other areas require irrigation.

High growth and urbanization have caused rapid rises in incomes in urban areas, with smaller increases in the rural areas.

Continued progress in these areas will increase the region's resilience and growth potential.

However, the original constituencies drawn in 1871 were never redrawn to reflect the growth of urban areas.

In 2007, 72 of the European population lived in urban areas, which are key to growth and employment.

To that end, Malawi had developed the Malawi Economic Growth Strategy, which outlined areas of high growth potential, including agro processing, the cotton and textile industry, mining and tourism.

In any event, that election suggested a need to spread the benefits of growth to rural areas and the poor.

However from the beginning of the 21st century, the population growth in urban areas is higher than in the countryside.

While these areas are important, their allocations should be reduced further to create space for growth enhancing investments.

Instead, these officials have decided to refocus ADB operations on three areas inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration, with a heavy emphasis on private sector development.

Prudent steps, such as the use of redeployment to cover projected staff increases in growth areas, will give confidence to the donors.

Any policies designed to restrict the associated growth in greenhouse gas emissions would need to be targeted at all of these areas.

Currently, the government is trying to slow the GDP growth rate, and job shortages are emerging in coastal areas.

Population growth in coastal areas may not continue to imply more risk exposure, since choice lots may already be getting somewhat more scarce, and further development may favor more central areas.

The programme supports initiatives such as capacity building in three substantive areas safety and security, access to justice, and growth.

While that shows substantial policy inadequacies in the social areas, it is also partly a reflection of a problem with the quality of economic growth.

As most of the returnees settle in urban areas, there has been an estimated 6 per cent annual growth rate in the urban population.

Everything else includes government investments in three major areas on which growth and high wage jobs depend education, infrastructure, and research.

The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference would contribute in a number of areas that would help developing countries to achieve sustained economic growth and sustainable development.

Other sectors, such as services and tourism, have been growing and have been recognized as key areas for opportunity and economic growth.

Security along with economic growth, sustainable development and good governance will provide the four central pillars and priority areas for the region.

The use of labour intensive methods was helping to create jobs in rural areas while providing the improved road network that was required for economic growth.

Although economic growth and poverty reduction in many developing countries has been impressive in recent years, a significant increase in investment in areas such as infrastructure is required to sustain such growth in the future.

This reflects the fact that the availability of efficient support services for ICTs is imperative to improve the productivity and sustainable growth of SMEs, especially in rural areas.

So, you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands, areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.

Thus, the budget supports critical areas of market reform and growth promotion, including measures aimed at deepening the financial sector, promoting exports, and liberalizing foreign direct investment.

In countries or areas with moderate to high mortality rates, UNICEF will support increased coverage of those interventions that simultaneously improve child survival, growth and development outcomes.

More importantly, even if markets are not fully saturated in many areas, it will be hard to maintain double digit growth rates for exports.

One seemingly unexpected use of such systems in some areas is to keep young community members from moving into more urban regions in order to spur economic growth.

In Senegal, we have achieved a growth rate of 6.7 per cent, with spectacular results in agriculture, where production in some areas has increased by 600 per cent.

For years, the US achieved fast growth by deferring attention to a variety of issues, ranging from the environment to infrastructure to health care. Even absent the financial crisis, addressing the shortcomings in these areas would likely have slowed down US growth.

Southern Punjab is seeing a rapid growth in the number of religious fanatics, and rooting out the problem there is much more challenging than acting in the Pashtun tribal areas.

While the Nobel Prize committee cited his contributions to macroeconomics, Phelps has made contributions in many areas, including the theory of growth and technological change, optimal taxation, and social justice.

In the urban areas, more economic and social activities, and greater freedom of movement, expression and religion may be observed, leading to rapid population growth without the corresponding infrastructural support.

The following section presents those areas, along with the options chosen to offset the increase in each one of them and minimize the overall growth in requirements to almost zero.

The commentators addressed the work of the various committees and working groups dealing with counter terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, areas of visible institutional growth and innovation over the past few years.

Measures that promote general economic growth in rural areas should benefit forest related enterprises, for example through access to credit, infrastructure development and improved access to markets.

Over the next 15 years, the growth in the world population will be absorbed mainly by urban areas of developing countries, and the world's population will become more urban than rural.

The consequences of rapid urbanization, combined with poor urban governance, weak economic growth and HIV AIDS, have reached crisis proportions in cities and urban areas of much of the developing world, especially in Africa.

Since 2001, forestry has become one of the Central African Republic's main growth areas, accounting for 4.2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2002, as against 3.2 per cent in 1997.

The problem is analogous to that which arose at the beginning of the twentieth century, when rapid productivity growth in agriculture forced labor to move from rural areas to urban manufacturing centers.

To promote the sale of household electrical appliances in rural areas, the government has begun providing a 13 price subsidy, not only benefiting rural consumption, but also boosting the growth of major industrial enterprises.

Human development proponents argue that economic growth is insufficient to expand people s choice or capabilities, areas such as health, education, technology, the environment, and employment should not be neglected.

We have devoted substantial monetary and human resources to a wide range of programmes in Rwanda, in areas ranging from democracy and governance to health, HIV AIDS, rural economic growth and food security.

Improving the lives of the people in rural areas Supporting private sector growth Restoring good governance Improving participation by civil society Closing the gap between the rich and the poor and disadvantaged groups.