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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The police said the couple had been opposing the eviction of rural workers from land owned by a local farmer.
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.
He was found close to his home in a settlement for landless rural workers near the town of Pacaja.
Under the new leadership, cutting tax and helping more rural workers settle in cities will be among the reforms pursued through steady economic growth.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 5 January 1976, the 10 textile workers were travelling home from work in the dark and rain on a minibus in the heart of rural County Armagh.
More than half of the country's workers now reside in urban areas, as rural migrants move to cities for better employment opportunities.
Workers in rural areas, who still make up about half the total labour force, never had much coverage of any kind anyway.
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.
As part of an effort to train a new cohort of local health workers and hence to improve the health delivery services for women and their families in rural communities, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the Centre for International Education at the University of Massachusetts, International Rescue Committee and seven local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) initiated the Learning for Life (LfL) programme.
In rural areas, the United Nations says wages, agriculture income and productivity all improve when the female workers are educated.
By comparison, most of the five million workers employed in Bangladesh's thriving garment export industry have had to leave their rural homes to work in the factories.
SH82 is one of the most congested rural highways in Colorado, and it serves as a critical travel artery for thousands of workers in our area who serve the resort communities of Aspen, Snowmass Village, and Glenwood Springs.
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.
Approximately one-half of the world's population lives in rural areas, according to the World Health Organization, and most of them usually lack trained health care workers.
The population in rural Kansas is shrinking, as family farms give way to industrial-sized farms that require fewer workers.
He did not further darken his message by mentioning an ongoing scandal over the abuse these workers suffer when, after falling foul of regulations, they are put in one of nine rural detention camps.
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.
This coalition also includes unions, such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, whose members' jobs might disappear, and various other sorts of utilities such as the rural co-operatives (see article) and municipal power companies, anxious lest deregulation lead to the unravelling of the tax-breaks and subsidies they now receive.
The World Bank says that rural wages (outside farms) fell by almost a fifth between 2007 and 2009 as migrant workers fled to their villages in search of jobs.
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