Sentences with phrase «rural populations in developing countries»

Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

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This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Displacement risk increases when populations that lack the resources for planned migration experience higher exposure to extreme weather events, in both rural and urban areas, particularly in developing countries with low income.

Nearly half of the world's population, approximately 3.3 billion people, lives in rural areas, and 90 % of those people live in developing countries.

Global housing needs will be driven by a huge population shift over the next 30 years as 3 billion people, mostly in developing countries, migrate from rural to urban areas in search of opportunity.