Congress is fond of entitlement schemes such as NREGA, which promises 100 days of paid work a year for every rural household.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), extended to every rural district in April 2008, is supposed to offer 100 days of work a year, at the minimum wage, to every rural household that needs it.
According to a study conducted by Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University, electrical use per household in urban areas of Humboldt County has shot up 50 percent since 1996, while in Arcata and more rural areas, household electricity use has jumped 60 percent.
As of the end of 2007, more than 26.5 million rural households were using household biodigesters, saving the equivalent of 44 million tons of CO2 emissions, according to China's State Council Information Office.
On a return trip to Rwanda last week, we saw ample evidence in Kigali: a new and fully-leased 20-story skyscraper, tower cranes that punctuate the skyline, and shiny metal roofs in rural areas that attest to growing household income. (Rwanda raised one million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2011.) Agricultural cooperatives improve efficiency and productivity.
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He allows for many more factors, including which region of the country the family lives in, whether it is urban or rural, and the age and sex of the household head.
According to this article the Chinese government reported that rural consumers purchased 41.7 billion RMB in household appliances as a result of the subsidies over the first 4 months of 2010 (equivalent to a 510% increase year-on-year).
Another technique the government is adopting to make rural citizens happier is to give them big discounts on household electrical appliances.
The agency believes people are making huge sums of money by charging to take away household or business waste but then dumping it at remote rural locations.
China's household-registration system denies equal access to public services for rural migrants, who work in the cities but are registered in the villages.
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That is the earliest possible repeal of the country's household registration system, or hukou, which limits the access of rural migrants to public services in the cities where they work and live.
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Worse still, the system of household registration, or hukou, defines even long-staying urban migrants as rural residents, cutting them out of housing, education and other benefits.
It has greater potential than development in any other sector to absorb former combatants, strengthen household incomes and food security, and to stimulate sustainable, economic growth in remote rural areas.
In China's system of household registration (known as hukou), children born to rurally registered parents count as rural, even if their parents have migrated to the city, and regardless of where they themselves were born.
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