rural ... services accounting for about three-fourths of GDP. Although nearly 70% of the population lives in rural areas, the share of food production in GDP is low. About 82% of food must ... www.exxun.com/CapeVerde/e_ec.html
rural inadequate supplies of potable water; improper waste disposal in rural areas contributes to soil and water pollution; desertification www.exxun.com/Chad/b_mp.html
rural 8% note: 21.5 million rural population live below the official "absolute poverty" line (approximately $90 per year); and an additional 35.5 million rural population above that but below the official "low income ... www.exxun.com/China/e_ec.html
rural ... children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation; girls are trafficked from rural areas within the country for commercial sexual exploitation, forced street vending, and domestic servitude; children ... www.exxun.com/Congo_Republic/i_ti.html
rural ... domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available international: country code - 506; landing point for the Americas Region ... www.exxun.com/CostaRica/f_cm.html
rural 59% in urban areas, 83% in rural areas (2007 est.) www.exxun.com/Djibouti/e_ec.html
rural ... pre-independence Equatorial Guinea counted on cocoa production for hard currency earnings, the neglect of the rural economy under successive regimes has diminished potential for agriculture-led growth (the government has stated ... www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/e_ec.html
rural ... self-sufficiency in basic products. Forestry, an important export earner, provides a secondary occupation for the rural population. High unemployment remains a persistent problem. In 2007 Russia announced plans to impose high ... www.exxun.com/Finland/e_ec.html
rural ... telephone networks now cover the entire country; urban telephone density is about 20 per 100 people; rural telephone density is about 4 per 100 people; intercity facilities include a fiber-optic line ... www.exxun.com/Georgia/f_cm.html
rural ... articulate an economic reform program that includes developing basic infrastructure to improve the lives of the rural poor and boost economic performance. The government has reduced controls on foreign trade and investment ... www.exxun.com/India/e_ec.html
rural ... remains low at about 20 for each 100 persons nationwide and much lower for persons in rural areas; fastest growth is in cellular service with modest growth in fixed lines domestic: mobile ... www.exxun.com/India/f_cm.html
rural ... smuggling and money laundering. Violent crime, drug trafficking, and poverty pose significant challenges to the government today. Nonetheless, many rural and resort areas remain relatively safe and contribute substantially to the economy www.exxun.com/Jamaica/a_fg.html
rural ... fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; growing mobile-cellular usage in both urban and rural areas is reducing use of fixed-line services; Internet penetration remains modest and slow-growing ... www.exxun.com/Jordan/f_cm.html
rural ... km (interurban roads) paved: 8,933 km unpaved: 54,332 km note: there also are 100,000 km of rural roads and 14,500 km of urban roads for a national total of 177,765 km (2004 www.exxun.com/Kenya/g_tr.html
rural ... population - is a severe problem that encourages outward migration. Most of Kosovo's population lives in rural towns outside of the capital, Pristina. Inefficient, near-subsistence farming is common - the result of ... www.exxun.com/Kosovo/e_ec.html
rural ... 1997. Despite this high growth rate, Laos remains a country with a underdeveloped infrastructure, particularly in rural areas. It has no railroads, a rudimentary road system, and limited external and internal telecommunications ... www.exxun.com/Laos/e_ec.html
rural ... a target not met; mobile-cellular service is expanding with a subscribership approaching 15 per 100 persons; rural services are scant international: country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean www.exxun.com/Lesotho/f_cm.html
rural ... found almost exclusively in the capital Monrovia; coverage extended to a number of other towns and rural areas by four mobile-cellular network operators domestic: combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity only ... www.exxun.com/Liberia/f_cm.html
rural ... least developed countries. The economy is predominately agricultural with about 85% of the population living in rural areas. Agriculture accounts for more than one-third of GDP and 90% of export revenues ... www.exxun.com/Malawi/e_ec.html
rural scarcity of hazardous waste disposal facilities; rural to urban migration; natural fresh water resources scarce and polluted in north, inaccessible and poor quality in center and extreme southeast; raw sewage and industrial ... www.exxun.com/Mexico/b_mp.html
rural ... East, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe; girls and young women are trafficked within the country from rural areas to Chisinau; children are also trafficked to neighboring countries for forced labor and begging ... www.exxun.com/Moldova/i_ti.html
rural ... switching centers are Casablanca and Rabat; national network nearly 100% digital using fiber-optic links; improved rural service employs microwave radio relay international: country code - 212; landing point for the SEA-ME ... www.exxun.com/Morocco/f_cm.html
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