Sentences with phrase «largest rural population»

India has the largest rural population with 857 million, followed by China with 635 million.

States with large rural populations, like Iowa, Montana, and South Dakota, see some of the lowest hourly billing rates, hovering around $ 130 - $ 150.

Not exact matches

«The Taliban is a much larger organization, controls roughly 10 - 12 % of the population of Afghanistan, has conducted a lot more attacks, and has some support among Afghanistan's conservative rural population,» Jones said.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

«We are a country with a large territory but small population, which makes distribution costly and difficult, especially in the rural areas where there is great potential,» Vallejo explains.

Even with strong expansion of the country's middle class, a large proportion of India's population remains poor, and being able to afford products is still a major concern for many in the rural economy.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working - class conurbations of Deeside.

Almost uniformly, in every country on Earth, the larger the population of a metropolitan area or the rural equivalent, the more productive it is per capita, and the lower its population is, the less productive it is per capita.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

Multimember constituencies work best in areas of high population density, and worst in sparsely populated rural areas where geographically the constituency may be very large.

Increased traffic will affect the rural area, including a large population of Mennonite people.

It is also worth noting that according to the 2011 census, cities have larger populations of EU immigrants than more mixed and rural areas.

Rural regions lost large numbers of residents (Allegany County, 2.47 percent; Cattaraugus County, 2.14 percent; and Chautauqua County, 2.11 percent) while suburban towns had mixed results (Amherst's population grew by 2.12 percent, while Cheektowaga's dropped by 0.44 percent and Tonawanda's declined by 0.17 percent).

In broad terms the large northern cities, and London, have lost seats to the rural south of England, as its population grows.

Bangladesh comes top of the «extremely vulnerable» category because of its large population, extreme rural poverty and high risk of flooding.

As a result of the large - scale actions aimed at alleviation of poverty, the size of poor populations in rural areas of China decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 82 · 49 million in 2010.

this is a large scale population study with incredible health data comparing rural (vegan) vs. urban Chinese, duplicated in rats, much more compelling than just analyzing Bill Clinton, who I have heard did not stick to a vegan diet until recently after his last scare.

Wausau, in the northern, rural area of the state, actually has an even larger Hmong population in the schools, 24 percent.

And it's true that some of the teachers in rural areas might not have the same academic qualifications — particularly in a place like Oaxaca, which for all its tourist delights of its capital is one of Mexico's poorest states, with a large indigenous population and substandard infrastructure.

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Fresno State serves a region that spans five counties and hundreds of miles, many of them rural, agricultural communities with large migrant populations.

Moreover, the demographic characteristics of the rural student population continue to shift, with rural schools becoming increasingly diverse and serving larger populations of students that schools have historically not served effectively (i.e., the students for whom performance is described in terms of achievement gaps).

Rural school districts and states with large, rural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, accordiRural school districts and states with large, rural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, accordirural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, according...

Rural school districts and states with large, rural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, according to a report by the Obama administraRural school districts and states with large, rural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, according to a report by the Obama administrarural populations are poised to lose a disproportionate amount of funding and opportunities to innovate under a bill proposed by House Republicans, according to a report by the Obama administration.

Whether you are in a small rural district with a handful of ELLs or a large urban district with a primary population of ELLs, you know that meeting the diverse needs of these learners is essential to the work we do as educators every day.

Some schools in the rural and suburban parts of the diocese don't expect to have large enough low - income student populations to make it into the top 25, Lancaster said.

But in low - income neighborhoods, across the state's inland regions and in rural communities — often home to large migrant populations — families struggle to connect at all.

In all cases, however, rural libraries significantly lag their counterparts in larger population areas.

Insurance providers do their best to gauge each individual policy holder's potential risk; and since risk to a vehicle tends to be significantly lower in rural areas and places where population density is low, it's easier to understand how even large, national insurance providers are able to offer such bargains here.

This change is due to a number of reason, including larger populations, elimination of special consideration zones, or they no longer meet the definition of rural.

Rural areas are not the only concern, as rat populations in some inner cities can be far larger than in the wild.

Southland's largest city, Invercargill is New Zealand's southern-most urban centre with a population of over 50,000 and serves as both support for the surrounding rural community and access to the popular Stewart Island.

The data reveals a cultural divide among three regions in the U.S.: cities and suburbs, rural areas, and the extended Black Belt, an area extending from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard and up to Washington as well as locations with large nonwhite populations.

A pair of Armenian researchers who locals call the «stork girls» are recruiting «nest neighbors» in rural villages to help them monitor the country's population of the large wading birds, which have traditionally been a symbol of luck and success in the former Soviet Republic.For the past four years, ArmeniaNow reports, young scientists Lusine Stepanyan and Maro Kochinyan have been visiting «virtually every area where storks nest in Armenia [to] distribute special calendars among the residents living near the nests.»

Thus small changes in population in rural areas can have more of an impact than larger absolute changes in population in a metropolitan area.

[Response: The effect diminishes with the size of town, it is actually larger than corrections based on population rises, and it gives results that are regionally coherent and you have yet to show that any objective subsampling of the rural stations makes any difference.

«Some of the larger, more rural areas appear underserviced at first glance but actually have a good number of lawyers and paralegals compared to the population.

Insurance providers do their best to gauge each individual policy holder's potential risk; and since risk to a vehicle tends to be significantly lower in rural areas and places where population density is low, it's easier to understand how even large, national insurance providers are able to offer such bargains here.

A large population of India lives in the rural areas.

To be effective, PHNs with rural and remote populations and large geographic areas have to work differently from their metropolitan counterparts.

Recruitment targeted schools located in four study sites within the U.S.: 1) Durham, NC, a small city with a large low - to middle - SES, primarily African - American population; 2) Nashville, TN, a moderate - sized city with a mix of low - to middle - SES, African - American and European - American families; 3) Seattle, WA, a moderate - sized city with a low - to middle - SES, ethnically diverse population; and 4) Central Pennsylvania, a mostly rural area with low - to middle - SES, European - American families.

The Fair Housing Project provides services to members of all protected classes, with special emphasis upon underserved areas and populations including immigrants; residents who are non-English speaking or have limited English proficiency; rural residents; persons with disabilities, with emphasis upon persons with HIV / AIDS; homeless individuals; and persons residing in areas with large concentrations of people of color.