Sentences with phrase «poor rural households»

Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security, according to Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University,...

FAO estimates that the disease causes more than $ 2 billion in losses annually and is an economic disaster for the small herders and poor rural households that depend on the animals for milk, meat, wool, and leather both for their own use and for trade.

But connecting poor rural households is the least of the problem.

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«This form of government investment will hardly eradicate or reduce rural poverty, because of poor infrastructure and the severe economic inefficiencies of most agrarian settlements — which often result in high household - level turnover and giving - up rates of newly settled farmers following the local liquidation of natural forest resource capital.»

It's always been hard to get ahead in the largely poor and rural state of Mississippi, where the median household income is the lowest in the U.S..

In the midst of rural South Carolina lies Allendale County, the 2nd poorest county in the state (average household income $ 25,327) and -LSB-...]

In the midst of rural South Carolina lies Allendale County, the 2nd poorest county in the state (average household income $ 25,327) and 22nd poorest in the entire United States.

In urban and rural areas, wage - labor - dependent poor households that are net buyers of food are expected to be particularly affected due to food price increases, including in regions with high food insecurity and high inequality (particularly in Africa), although the agricultural self - employed could benefit.

The proportion of adolescent women in need who are not using modern contraceptive methods is higher in Asia (69 %) and Africa (68 %) than in Latin America and the Caribbean (36 %).10 In all regions, unmet need is higher among adolescent women wanting to avoid pregnancy who live in rural areas and who live in poorer households.

Overall, Hordaland county is considered representative of Norway with regards to gender and rural / urban residence distribution, and the median household income is also similar to that of the national average.37 In the period 2005 — 2010, the mean proportion of children characterised as being relative poor (see details below) in Hordaland county was slightly lower (7.3 %) than in the country as a whole (8.9 %).

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Child abuse can occur in any household — rich or poor, rural or urban, educated or uneducated.