Around 65 per cent of young people live in the rural regions.

However, whereas the rural population of the more developed regions is declining, that of the less developed regions continues to increase despite rural urban migration.

In most regions, pastures are State owned, and rural residents use them for free.

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

The North, Central, South, and Southwest parts of the Republic are rural regions.

The FAO Project for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions has launched a new database of documentation on policies for sustainable agriculture and rural development in mountains.

The wealth gap between China s urban and rural regions has badly skewed China s education.

Energy poverty is a barrier to sustainable development for many poorer rural communities in all regions of the world.

The majority of garimpeiros come from rural regions where they were generally deprived of land.

As we finance infrastructure and other projects in the region, we will seek to integrate disenfranchised regions and rural areas.

In some regions, such policies also had a negative impact on rural infrastructure and food security, as evidenced in sub Saharan Africa.

This decline is consistent across all the regions as well as for the urban and rural areas.

Pockets of extreme poverty within countries are common in all regions which include geographically inaccessible areas, remote rural communities and urban slums.

The operations of international organizations in terms of lending to the rural woman entrepreneur, however, cannot cover all regions of the country.

There is one theatre in cities of several regions however, long distances make theatrical performances almost inaccessible for residents of rural areas.

Wide discrepancies and gaps in some social service provisions and indicators remain between rural and urban areas and among regions and provinces.

22. Because many rural families have been forced to seek refuge in other regions, support to subsistence farming has taken on new urgency.

These types of measures are particularly necessary in those countries or regions with least developed banking networks, which is usually the case in rural areas.

For remote and rural areas in developing countries, especially in mountainous regions (Agenda 21, chap. 13), ground information can be difficult and expensive to obtain.

In Ghana, for example, more than 85 per cent of general physicians work in urban regions, although 66 per cent of the population lives in rural areas.

In such regions, parallel assistance in intermediary urban networks linked to target rural areas creates off farm employment, which draws population away from over exploited areas.

92. Small scale mining has become a mainstay of many rural economies, and in many regions of the world, women have joined men in the sector.

Nonetheless, his Government was keenly aware that China still had sharp imbalances between urban and rural areas and between regions.

In many other countries, particularly in the developing regions, the issues of education and training and the health of the rural population had not received adequate attention.

The Committee also requests the State party in its next periodic report to include annual comparative data, disaggregated by rural urban regions, the percentage of gross domestic product allotted for education, health and housing programmes, in particular in the ethnic minority regions.

The country's illiteracy rate is usually around 50 percent for most of the country, but reaches as high as 90 percent among girls in rural regions.

To help that crucial cohort, the Khushali Bank has been established with capital of 28 million for extending soft loans to the unemployed in rural regions.

67. Cyprus has recently launched a low interest rural housing scheme to benefit communities in mountainous regions for the construction, completion, extension or purchase of houses.

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.

There has been progress in reducing the gap between boys and girls, but the progress has been less rapid in some regions, such as Africa, and in rural areas generally.

Noting the outcome of the meeting of the Adelboden Group on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions, which met in Rome from 1 to 3 October 2007,

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International Year of Mountains 2002 International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture Rural Development in Mountain Regions, Adelboden, Switzerland, June 2002 member of drafting group for the Adelboden Declaration.

However rates vary markedly in different regions with rates as low as 3.4 (men) and 6.8 (women) in rural India and as high as 68.9 (men) and 72.5 (women) in Poland.

Other regions ranged between 15 and 68 , possibly reflecting the presence of some well developed urban areas and some poorly developed rural areas.

Overlaid with economic regions, fiscal regions, administrative regions.

The survey was representative of the nation as a whole urban and rural areas were considered separately, as were three regions North, Central and South in the country.

In rural areas the traditional projects are for organized rural settlements.

Unemployment in rural areas

Widows in rural India

While this has reduced poverty, inequality has been increasing, with growing disparities between cities and rural areas, and between coastal regions and the interior.

By May 1980, Kurds still controlled much of the regions' roads, rural areas and holding once again the city of Mahabad as their capital.

The Haitian Government is highly centralized so that the challenges of Port au Prince overshadow the tragedy of the rural areas and other regions.

Although it carries the risk of bleeding to death and may lead to an array of physical and psychological problems, FGM continues, especially in Egypt's rural and marginalized regions.

471. Considering the large percentage of women living in rural regions, members asked whether any specific programmes had been implemented for them and whether there was the intention and means of evaluating, in monetary terms, the economic value of the domestic work undertaken by rural women.