He has promoted a few interesting ideas aimed at getting money into the poor rural areas, where it is badly needed, though the results have been patchy.
The poor, in cities and rural areas, face the steepest obstacles.
Medicaid payment rates to physicians were cut across the board by 3% in April, which is expected to lead to reduced services for the poor and disabled in rural areas.
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The private sector does not provide services in poor, rural areas, because the investment involved would be unprofitable.
Kevin Roxburgh from Scottish Gas-Centrica told the committee he would like to see a biased towards helping fuel poor in rural areas where the housing stock is more of a problem.
It is fair to say that Chavez basically won in the rural and very poor areas and lost in the urban areas.
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Over three-quarters of the world's poor live in rural areas, mostly dependent on agriculture.
However, the majority of the poor and least educated live in rural areas.
The majority of the poor and least educated live in rural areas, with vast numbers concentrated in rural South and West Asia.
Helping a large Indian outsourcer go public, Janah hit on the notion that poor, educated people even in rural areas of developing countries could do data-entry work, just as people living in large Indian cities do.
Many people have contacted the BBC about the poor broadband speed where they live, particularly in rural areas.
Her political affiliation is with Winaq, an indigenous movement which has its base in the Mayan indigenous population most of whom live in poor rural areas.
He said the main issues facing country councils were poor access to services due to lack of public transport in rural areas, extra costs for services and the fact that their problems are less likely to get the attention of policy makers because of the isolated nature of rural communities.
The DUP's Jonathan Craig asked about poor broadband coverage in rural areas with particular emphasis on Hillsborough in his Lagan Valley constituency.
By contrast, one of the characteristics of the developing world is that people often have to leave energy-poor rural areas and travel to cities to find this economic opportunity.
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Ringing the alarm on the stagnating progress towards reaching universal primary education, the United Nations' Special Envoy for Global Education Mr Gordon Brown, urged that every failing country should draw up an action plan to address obstacles to schooling, from child labour and early marriage to poor sanitation and lack of facilities in rural areas, which the international community should come into support.
The Scottish Executive's reluctance to interfere with an industry that has brought thousands of jobs to poor rural areas is understandable.
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Some also think the statistics could reflect a migration of healthier women out of rural areas, leaving behind others who are too poor and unhealthy to relocate.
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