The concerns for poor rural women need to be addressed.

Reception in tunnels, some buildings, and rural areas is often poor.

That caused rising inequality between the urban privileged and the rural poor.

Sustainable energy and maintenance of natural resources for poor and rural people.

More than 3 million deaths per year are attributed to water pollution and poor sanitation, mainly in poor rural areas.

Rural poverty remains a significant problem, especially in the LDCs and South Asian subregion, with close to 500 million rural poor.

Livelihood industries are those, which assure sustainable sources of livelihoods for the rural poor.

Fifth, increased investment in rural areas, provided for in the government s rescue plan, will help narrow the gap between urban rich and rural poor.

Poor rural families see too many of their children become prostitutes in order to survive.

Without him, fighting between the rural poor and the urban elites could quickly erupt again.

It was highest (20.30 ) in the Northeast, which had a large proportion of rural poor.

Poor rural frameworks hamper the knowledge dissemination needed for farmers to benefit from research developments.

Electrification for the rural poor has improved in South Africa and Ghana through the creation of independent agencies in charge of implementing rural electrification plans.

The increase was more pronounced among the non indigent poor than among the non poor (except in rural areas of the Pacific region, where it declined among the non indigent poor but increased among the non poor).

Facilities in rural clinics are poor, which cannot fully meet the demands for healthcare of women.

There is a special emphasis on those who are disadvantaged, such as poor and rural youth.

(a) Can South South cooperation generate income and employment opportunities for the rural and urban poor?

This is crucial for rural employment, without which poor rural young people will be driven away from their communities in search of work in the cities.

The extreme poor in Latin America s rural communities live five kilometers or more on average from the nearest paved road almost twice as far as non poor rural households, resulting in difficult and very costly access to markets and needed services.

In Thailand, the self made ethnic Chinese media billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra was especially admired by the rural poor.

the urban and rural poor do not appear to be the primary beneficiaries of the Lom Pangar project.

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).

The nonprofit company Grameen Shakti currently leads the world in the installation of solar panels for the rural poor.

More than 50 million new bank accounts have been established, bringing India s rural poor into the modern financial system.

Indeed, it is the world s poor particularly those in rural areas that suffer the most from these combined factors.

The movement of the rural poor to large cities is one of the exemplary narratives of the modern era.

The majority, or three quarters of the world's poor women, men and children, live and work in rural areas.

It should be emphasized that these results do not imply that 70 of rural women are poor or indigent.

In order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, it is essential that poverty reduction interventions focus on the rural poor and that significant investments be made in rural and agricultural development.

Another IFAD project, on enhancing rural livelihood through the revival of traditional handicrafts, in Central and Eastern Europe empowers the rural poor, particularly women, through greater opportunities in production of handicrafts.

The Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) are the largest players in terms of providing financial and technical services to the poor communities especially the rural women for enhancing their income generating capacities.

Around 70 percent of the poor live in rural areas, while the rest live in the urban areas. More than 70 percent of the urban poor live in Java and Bali.

What they won t see, of course, are the desperately low living standards of China s teeming millions, especially the rural poor.

State banks are supposed to lend generously to India s rural poor, but their operations are mired in inefficiency and corruption.

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

Recognizing that the majority of the extreme poor lived in rural areas, especially in Africa and Asia, the Millennium Project had proposed rural development as one of the seven key development clusters.

The International Year of Rice would have succeeded when more rice became available, accessible and affordable to urban and rural poor, when farm incomes increased and when additional rural employment opportunities were created.

Meanwhile, in Jamaica and across the rural outposts of Central America, drug lords have become benefactors and heroes to the poor.

Certainly the ADB s new strategy will not serve the majority of Asians, 60 of whom still live in poor rural areas.

The young people at Shahbag are mainly urban, educated, and middle class Hifazat derives its support mainly from the rural poor.

To finance NGO developed projects aimed at poverty alleviation and improvement in the living conditions of poor rural and urban dwellers

The figures revealed the glaring contrasts between rich and poor nations and between rural and urban populations in the poorest countries.

Generally speaking, between 1998 and 2001 the percentage of households headed by women declined among the extremely poor population (except in rural areas of the central region, where it remained stable), but increased among the non indigent poor and non poor populations.

The first goal should be to distribute long lasting insecticide treated bed nets to all of Africa s rural poor within four years.

Thus, this programme component impacts not only urban agro industries, but has a strong outreach to poor and marginalized rural population groups.