He was found close to his home in a settlement for landless rural workers near the town of Pacaja.
The police said the couple had been opposing the eviction of rural workers from land owned by a local farmer.
Not only are opportunities for rural workers going to go missing, but urban workers are going to lose jobs and opportunities as well.
Over the past eight years, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance has promised universal education and 100 days of employment each year for rural workers.
Under the new leadership, cutting tax and helping more rural workers settle in cities will be among the reforms pursued through steady economic growth.
Rural workers aged over 60, and anyone poor and over 65, can get a pension of 622 reais the minimum wage without ever having paid into the system.
At ethanol plants such as Sao Manoel, they say they keep within rules set by the government for rural workers, and have introduced changes to improve working practices.
China still has perhaps 200m underemployed rural workers who could move to factories over the next two decades, so wages for low-skilled workers are rising more slowly than productivity, reducing China's unit labour costs.
Put simply, this is the point at which a developing country stops being able to achieve rapid growth relatively easily, by simply taking rural workers doing unproductive farm labour and putting them to work in factories and cities instead.
In 2010, 34% of rural migrant workers left their factory jobs to move back home, according to the most recent data available from the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia project at Australian National University.
In the early 1990s, Dr Sen and his wife, Ilina, set up Rupantar, a non-governmental organisation training rural health workers, running mobile clinics and campaigns against alcohol abuse and violence against women.
Workers in rural areas, who still make up about half the total labour force, never had much coverage of any kind anyway.
Tensions have also been increased by recent threats from loyalists to a number of community workers in rural districts who organise projects across sectarian boundaries.
Under-employed workers in rural areas are excluded from the count and that includes those who have lost jobs in the city and returned to their native villages.
Mr Putin has increasingly relied on the support of the rural population and industrial workers, as well as the 40% or so of the electorate who are elderly.
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Its leaders need at least 7% annual growth, they reckon, to continue to create enough jobs to absorb surplus rural labour and the workers laid off by state-owned enterprises.
On 5 January 1976, ten textile workers were murdered in rural County Armagh.
More than half of the country's workers are employed in rural areas, mainly in agriculture and related work, and their purchasing power is dependent on farm production.
On rural roads, sugar-mill workers sit next to bags of beet sugar they have received in lieu of wages, hoping to barter their product for food or cash.
Jallow says all this wouldn't be possible without Riders for Health (RFH), a social enterprise working to transform healthcare delivery across rural Africa and provide outreach health workers with the transport they need.
Almost all 2, 000 of the workers now enrolled are from rural areas with few jobs and have little education and limited prospects.
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China has one scheme for urban workers, another for non-workers and a third for rural folk, each administered by separate city or county governments.
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But Mr Scott who represents shipyard workers, government bureaucrats, rural gentry and urban poor in a district that reaches from Richmond 110 miles southeast to Norfolk may be an exception.
They were still a new denomination then, but had spread rapidly in the last fifty years around a nation of exploited factory workers, coal miners, and rural and inner-city poor.
It used to be that migrant workers would come from the more rural areas of Brazil during harvest season and essentially live at the mill for the season, using the old slash-and-burn technique to harvest the sugarcane.
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To be sure, some mental health innovation can also be found in parts of the U.S. Project ECHO, partly funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, is using telephone and Internet technology to link specialists at the University of New Mexico with primary care doctors, community health workers, and health educators in rural parts of the state.
Their bonding as fellow students means they can organise themselves more easily than can workers who are usually migrants from different rural areas.
More than half of the country's workers now reside in urban areas, as rural migrants move to cities for better employment opportunities.
For now, in the rural clinics of Thailand, Cambodia and Burma, health workers are fighting to defend one of the pillars that support a global success story.
Since few Latin Americans are covered by unemployment insurance this could include training for laid-off workers and temporary employment schemes, such as repairing rural roads.
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