Industrial output in December rose 10.3 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011, while 2012 non-rural fixed-asset investment climbed 20.6 percent year-over-year, all in line with market expectations.
In January 2009, public pressure led to the formation of a Stormont working group to explore options for non-farming rural dwellers.
Whilst at the World Bank, Bimla set up Udyogini, a non-profit aimed at helping rural women start their own micro-enterprises.
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.
Since the demise of the old system, health-insurance coverage has been patchy and in rural areas mostly non-existent.
The latest alternative would be a system of non-profit health insurance cooperatives modeled after rural agriculture co-ops.
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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The transport network in rural Kenya is practically non-existent, and cheap, durable cars that can carry several people can act as both a small transport business for a budding entrepreneur, or a method of carrying their stock.
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Last year the government introduced an urban insurance scheme (similar to the rural one) aimed at non-working residents, including children and university students.
Twenty cases of female infanticide, in which the mothers were punished, have been documented by a Madurai-based non-governmental organisation, the Society for Integrated Rural Development.
Mr Kirsten and Mr Vink think deregulation will also attract non-farm businesses, giving another boost to the rural economy.
Pat Mooney, of Rural Advancement Foundation International, a non-governmental organisation seeking to conserve biodiversity, thinks these figures are usually too low.
Katherine Nichol, who works at Plan Rwanda, a non-governmental organisation which promotes girls' education in rural areas, says that the scope of the problem might be even worse than outlined in the report.
But for poor and rural ones, big stores are either non-existent, or frequently beaten out by local producers for seasonal foods.
Its share in Rural China is extremely low, if probably non-existent, given the low income levels in those regions.
She will discuss the Organization's cooperation with Bangladesh with the Prime Minister and top cabinet officials, and meet with the Founder and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee that has rich experience in non-formal education.
Mortgaging rural land or even selling one's own house to non-villagers is banned.
Ms Tacon has previously worked for Mars Confectionery, Vodafone and Anchor Foods, and currently holds a number of non-executive positions in the agriculture sector, including chair of the BBC's rural affairs advisory committee.
One could argue that we need governments to provide public goods, which are goods for which provision for one means provision for all with an extreme difficulty excluding non-payers, but the recent Tennessee fire shows that fire protection, at least in rural areas, is a private good.
One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.
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