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RURAL. That which relates to the country, as rural servitudes. See Urban.

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The migration of the younger generation to urban areas must be reduced to ensure they can play a role in developing rural areas, says Rural Development Minister Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun.

Reduce migration of younger generation to urban areas, says minister

President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed the law on renaming one of the rural areas and 2 villages in the country, the President's press service reported.

Jeenbekov signs law on renaming rural area and 2 villages

Similarly, education of the head of the household in the two urban areas and total hours of work in a day in one rural area also related negatively with the working women's share of earning in their family's total income.

A Comparative Analysis of Urban and Rural working Women (A Case Study of District Peshawar)

Epidemiological survey of asthma in a rural area of Yanqing County in Beijing (in Chinese).

Prevalence and Treatment of Children's Asthma in Rural Areas Compared with Urban Areas in Beijing

Background: As 70% of population of India resides in rural areas, there is need of providing effective health care to people in these areas.

Attitude of medical students toward serving in rural areas and its determinants: a cross-sectional study from Uttarakhand

The subsequent overview provides data on the distinctiveness of rural areas in statistical expressions.

Measuring differences in urban-rural development: the case of unemployment

According to the report, there were only 55 primary care physicians per 100,000 rural area residents in 2005.

HHS report says rural residents would benefit from health insurance reform

During the 1980s, at a time when most young South Korean women left the rural areas in search of better city jobs and more eligible husbands, Lee Yun-Oh stayed in the largest organized farming county of Naju and married a farmer.

A fight for their lives: food and land struggles have connected peasant movements from Asia to Latin America and dogged the WTO across the globe

One area of the country that has seen urban settings increasingly encroach on rural areas is the northwestern United States It has also been called the "hotbed of the environmental movement." This is a very diverse area of agriculture and urban culture that sometimes combines through such products as fine wine.

NAFB members reaching out to rural lifestyle audiences

There are substantial backlogs in the development of public and school library services in South Africa, especially in the remote rural areas. One way of achieving improved provision of public and school library services appears to be through joint use services.

Joint use libraries: implementing a pilot community/school library project in a remote rural area in South Africa

Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Communication and IT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said that the government has been seriously working on linking rural areas to mobile networks, adding that currently more than 86 percent of villages across Iran are enjoying connection.