The policies include making more money available for rural infrastructure and reducing taxes.
This option carries risks, while it remains to be seen if the expected benefits will materialize, such as rural infrastructure, jobs and the contribution to domestic food needs.
Among other changes, the letter called for any Indonesian budget surplus to be spent on rural infrastructure rather than on reducing debts and for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank to play a greater role in overseeing agricultural reforms.
This means the cash-strapped central and state governments will lack money for essential services, such as primary education, health, rural development and infrastructure.
Of the rest, 80% is earmarked for spending on education, health, rural development, infrastructure, environmental and water management, and 5% is to be spent in the oil-producing region.
Many of Guatemala's rural indigenous communities lack infrastructure basics such as clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity.
Now, it appears that they want their leaders to focus on the basics: creating better-paying jobs, protecting the population, expanding trade, improving access to technology, developing infrastructure in rural areas, and improving relations with foreign countries and trade partners.
The most effective leaders, such as David Lilienthal at the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s or James Webb at NASA in the 1960s, were given some budgetary cover from Congress so they could engage in long-term planning that improved the infrastructure of rural areas or allowed us to make huge advances in our understanding of space.
The bill proposes a compensation of four times the market value for people who give up their land for industrial and infrastructure projects in rural India.
And, most of that infrastructure was built by Rural Electrical Cooperatives, many of which are still in operation today.
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Campaigners have previously accused the government of creating a developers' charter in rural areas ahead of its Growth and Infrastructure Bill being debated in the Commons.
His new powers extend beyond relief and reconstruction to cover areas including infrastructure, banking and finance, rural and urban land use, telecommunications, defence and security.
Otherwise there will be no chance of the many reforms required outside the forestry sector: in land-use planning and rural development, in agriculture, energy and infrastructure policies, and much else.
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.
But on the basic "Thaksinomics" of rural development, government health care, industrial privatization and infrastructure buildout?
It is also focusing on infrastructure projects such as water, sewerage and rural electricity, as well as microfinance schemes.
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Why build new infrastructure in areas of little traffic, especially if incumbent rural providers can immediately make claims to use it?
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As a result, many needy people have failed to benefit from the UPE and FAL programmes, and the situation remains particularly dire for disadvantaged rural communities whose access to educational amenities such as libraries, proper educational infrastructure (buildings) and teachers continues to be limited.
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That's why many economists embrace intelligent infrastructure spending on roads, bridges, schools, electric grids and rural Internet access as effective stimulus elements.
In fact, it would have taken an army to stop the rural people from dividing the herds among themselves once the Soviet-subsidised collective infrastructure collapsed.
For example, wireless broadband will likely take hold in rural areas where providers can't afford to build out new cable or fiber infrastructure.
Given its population size and huge economic potential, Myanmar is a market that has huge opportunity for growth given the need for infrastructure development, better healthcare facilities and power generation in both urban and rural areas.
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Cutts, in collaboration with Ashoka Fellow Katherine Lucey, is tackling barriers to better healthcare, including the lack of reliable electricity and unreliable transportation infrastructure, through participatory development initiatives like the installation of solar systems in rural health care centers and motorcycle ambulance programs.
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That's why I've been fighting to create millions of new jobs in clean energy and rebuilding our infrastructure, jobs to come to all of our states, and urban and rural areas, and suburban communities and small towns.
If the free wireless web is to take root anywhere, the most likely place will be in rural areas, which have less radio congestion and a more acute shortage of high-speed infrastructure.
"It combines the investments that MCC has made in many sub-Saharan African countries in agriculture and public infrastructure such as roads and irrigation to complement Agra's investments in providing the rural poor with seeds and fertilisers, " he told the BBC.
China, which also struggles to lift its rural poor, has taken a different approach, investing more heavily in public health, education and infrastructure.
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The scientists said much of rural Scotland still had no high quality web access, despite government investment to upgrade the existing copper wire infrastructure and subsidise satellite connections.
The country's infrastructure needs major modernization as well, and roads need to be built to reach the relatively inaccessible rural areas.
CenturyTel is clearly looking at it from a different angle and would like to dominate the rural landline business and also run other, more expensive services (broadband Internet, television, bundles) through that infrastructure.
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