This is in keeping with the general trend in the world that more specialized care is available in urban centers than in rural areas due to better support facilities in the urban centers.

Source National Statistics Office, 2000a.

Most coastal urban centres do not have a municipal policy for solid waste management

The issue is much more evident in small and medium sized urban centres

Many refugees and asylum seekers were detained for being in urban centres without authorization.

Preschool education is not regulated by organic law and exists only in certain urban centres.

Light contamination and hot spots could impact Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian urban centers some distance away.

In 1991, the 12 classified centers as cities had started to have a population of 2.5 million inhabitants.

Second, by the creation of economic opportunities in urban centres and areas outside drylands.

Most workers in the urban centers were immigrants from West Africa and Lebanon, with some also from North Africa.

Urban centers became well developed, especially the territories of what is today Sofia due to the abundance of mineral springs.

Community centers like Florida House provide urban areas with a central location to learn about urban agriculture and to begin to integrate agriculture with the urban lifestyle.

Followers of Islam make up less than 2 of the population, and this is primarily due to an influx of foreign workers into the urban centers.

One company is responsible for producing and distributing electricity in the Niger and it covers only the main urban centres.

Indeed, 25 years of reforms have changed nothing of China's one country with two systems a model that segregates China's urban centers from its agricultural areas, with development of the former realized at the expense of the latter.

In the urban centres life expectancy for women is 74 years compared to 67 years for men.

Basic services such as electricity and waste collection have yet to be restored even in major urban centers like Baghdad.

Also notable are the high economic growth rates in Afghanistan's urban centres over the past three and a half years.

The violence is a symptom of the growing political instability in Madagascar that is affecting urban centers as well as rural communities.

Within the urban centres the Municipal Councils of Port Vila and Luganville have both been supporting women's participation in economic development.

The two major sources of solid waste in the marine environment are urban centres (up to 75 per cent) and commercial and tourist activities

A specialized police morality squad has launched a campaign to curb prostitution, especially in the major cities.

In the 21st century, modern pharmaceuticals and medical procedures remain inaccessible to large numbers of African people due to their relatively high cost and concentration of health centres in urban centres.

The issue of the aging caregivers in urban centres also requires attention as Vanuatu does not have institutional care facilities for people with disabilities.

With the rapidly changing social environment, even this safety net is fraying, most notably in the urban centres.

One of the methods used in the urban centers is to initiate the abortion, and later direct it to the hospital to complete the process in an operating room.

With the increase in population, a shift away from the rural communities toward urban centres, this important cultural safety net is slowly diminishing.

The village stood near a network of roads that led to a many urban centers and was linked by a secondary road to the Jaffa Jerusalem Highway.

Over the past three and a half years, significant economic growth has taken place in the urban centres and food security has improved, with record crop yields.

But the same economic stimuli that underpin higher food output also lead to supply problems, a decline in living standards, and massive social strains, especially in urban centers.

More than half of the world s population is urban, for the first time in history, and urban hubs generate an estimated 80 of global GDP.

Immigrants and members of visible minority communities, who make up 28 per cent of Canadian youth, tend to live in major urban centres and face linguistic and cultural challenges.

Use of electricity is limited to the urban centres and towns where 72 per cent of dwellers use this medium for light.

This is the case in Vanuatu where few births, deaths and marriages are registered, either in urban centres or rural areas.

Specifically, any prolonged period of sub 7 growth could encourage opposition and dissent not only in the countryside, but also in urban centers.

Here, Africa s youth merit special attention the survey found that the 16 34 age group already accounts for 53 of income in urban centers. Young people s consumption habits are quite different from their elders .

In the U.S., after the first public parking garage for motor vehicles was opened in Boston, May 24, 1898, livery stables in urban centers began to be converted into garages.

However, a rebound economy in the 2000s in urban centres (perhaps the most urbanized Latin American nation) improved the situation of living standards for Colombians in a traditional class stratified economy.

As growth and development in emerging economies like China continues, people will increasingly compare themselves to the richer people in their countries urban centers.

It was believed that the Internet and mobile communications, then infant technologies, would make it unnecessary for people to live in crowded and expensive urban hubs.

Tens of thousands more have become night commuters , travelling nightly by foot from IDP camps to urban centres to avoid abduction.

There were three plenary meetings, partners' dialogues on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic dialogues on urban poor, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services and urban disasters and reconstruction.

The Taliban reacted to these defeats by launching terrorist attacks in many urban centers, particularly in Punjab, killing more than 15,000 people over the last six years.

Urban centers worldwide revolve around shops, whether on main street or at the mall, with many consumers viewing shopping as a leisure activity.

After the Crimean War, in 1855, many other communities including Bosnians, Greeks, French and Italians began settling in the area especially in urban centers such as Jerusalem, Jaffa and Bethlehem.