Because it has such little infrastructure in place--dirt roads, old copper telephone lines, etc.
The alternatives to asphalt roads are gravel roads, dirt roads, and concrete slab roads.
These workers toil in the woods accessible by dirt roads, with heavy machinery and amongst falling trees.
"My days of driving down old dirt roads and scooping up decoys are long gone, " Figge laments.
We drove four hours in the dark in convoy to the Iraqi Border along empty dirt roads.
The Metzgers, in their 30s, run a 50, 000 acre ranch 75 miles down dirt roads from the capital.
There is grit in my teeth from the dust on Juba's dirt roads.
Microloan Foundation provides its local loan officers with motor bikes so they can reach villages only accessible by dirt roads.
On dirt roads the WRX STi actually handles better than on pavement.
Along Vermont's dirt roads, well-heeled professionals often live in fine houses across the road from a rundown trailer or next door to a ramshackle farmhouse.
With its tree-lined dirt roads, whitewashed cottages and vintage signposts giving distances in miles (South Africa converted to metric in the 1970s), Nieu Bethesda is an off-the-grid destination.
It is made of endless stretches of empty dirt roads surrounded by forests, mountains, glaciers and lakes, with scenic villages, free campsites and hot springs along the way.
"Significant ground scraping and landscaping have been undertaken over an extensive area at and around the location, with new dirt roads established, " the report said.
From somewhere in Belgium the convoy had bumped along pot-holed dirt roads and some paved ones also in bad shape, hour after hour with frequent delays.
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On the day of the funeral, my relatives drove us out of the city in a caravan of cars, to a neighborhood of dirt roads and crumbling buildings.
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But the provincial authorities, he argues, cannot force them to build local clinics instead of state-of-the-art hospitals, or to surface dirt roads instead of building showy suspension bridges.
We made the journey in three 4x4 Unicef vehicles bumping along the red dirt roads through the lush green tropical landscape - trees packed with bananas, oranges and lemons.
The town is peppered with basic houses painted in a kaleidoscope of colours, and the sandy dirt roads that criss-cross Punta del Diablo can still be traversed in about an hour on foot.
After admiring the lion pride, we crisscross the park's dirt roads, passing birds (there are 300 bird species in Gir), langur monkeys with whip-like tails and docile chital (Bambi-esque spotted deer).
Mr. Loughner spent his adolescence just north of Tucson, in a community where a flat carpet of strip malls and low subdivisions dissolves at its fringes into dirt roads and rolling, saguaro-spiked desert.
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With her skis remounted and all of us packed into the Rover, enjoying our last cold sips of Tusker Export, we head out of town toward Mount Kenya National Park, following the dirt roads deeper and deeper into plantation country.
About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.
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No rumble seat (yet), so strictly speaking, it is a Business Coupe, designed for a generation of men in hats and blue serge suits to load their sample cases into the giant trunk and hit the dirt roads of Depression America in search of the elusive customer with money.
Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.
Barely two hours drive outside the city, pot-holed dirt-roads are the only access to the numerous villages where the option for youngsters is to follow the family tradition of subsistence farming, or try their luck by heading illegally to the US - where more than a million Salvadorans already live.
About 4km to the east, just outside of Las Galeras, I ventured off the tarmac roads and walked along a dirt track, passing both roaming horses and scooters carrying entire families.
Even close to the cities and highways, roads soon peter out into pot-holed dirt tracks.
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