Cash strapped councils must make tough choices, they say.

Rural poor in the Tien Shan mountains, Kazakhstan.

Urban and rural areas subvert each other.

Brazil is partitioned into states, which in turn are partitioned into municipalities.

In Japan, municipalities play an important role in overseeing and administering family registries.

They ravaged the countryside, obliterating everything in their path.

What about one on one murder? Well, there, there are good statistics, because many municipalities recorded the cause of death.

And municipalities cannot benefit from Chapter 9 of the US bankruptcy code.

At the moment, Afghanistan s drug lords are prospering, and rural communities are suffering.

What role will elected village leaders play in the future?

Some municipalities in Japan have passed local ordinances that recognize same sex civil partnerships, which equate these relationships to marriage.

Many municipalities have reduced chlorination and now also use ultraviolet light to sanitize the public supply of drinking water.

China would still have a vast underdeveloped countryside.

We should not ignore the enormous development potential of remittances to rural areas.

Municipalities, often owing to corruption or poor management, are unable or unwilling to impose rigorous planning regulations.

In many instances, they can reach deep into inaccessible rural areas to deliver services.

In my visit last month, the wall was adorned by a large map of Karnataka festooned with colored pins, to indicate that he now served most district capitals in the remotest parts of the state.

Small rural clinics can be built or rebuilt very quickly, within the first year of peace.

Young people, the leaders and farmers of tomorrow, are leaving their rural communities behind in search of better opportunities.

Because they know both the tastes of fellow city dwellers and rural conditions, many urban farmers are succeeding.

This suggests a willingness to do whatever it takes to protect long suffering rural communities from continued violence.

Villagers and merchants from both sides conducted a brisk business and border trade unfettered by the authorities.

Just have a quick look at Yemen's rural areas u'll know. Afrah Nasser ( Afrahnasser) September 15, 2013

Many Kyrgyz, particularly rural men, view the practice of ala kachuu as a national 'tradition' and a birth rite.

Villagers can now keep their shops, medicine stores, and saloons open late into the night.

The majority of the city of Bangalore lies in the Bangalore Urban district of Karnataka and the surrounding rural areas are a part of the Bangalore Rural district.

We may dislike it, but the EU is part of our system of government, like municipalities, regions, and nation states.

Most of the world s poorest people are rural, small holding farmers, virtually untouched by modern agriculture.

Noting with grave concern that adverse weather conditions have contributed to the drought currently affecting the region, in particular in rural areas,

'Oh, you country gentlemen!' said Oblonsky jokingly. 'And your tone of contempt for us poor townfolk!...

Natural gas is available in the City of Geneva, as well as in about two thirds of the municipalities of the canton, and is imported from Western Europe by the Swiss company Gaznat.

The wealthy dwell in air conditioned houses, travel in chauffeur driven cars, and shop in luxury malls, apparently oblivious to how the rest of the country lives. Poor rural families see too many of their children become prostitutes in order to survive.

The Bank s policy work has re affirmed the notion that rural producer organizations are fundamental building blocks of agricultural development.

Poor rural families see too many of their children become prostitutes in order to survive.

In San Martín Jilotepeque, villagers were rounded up by Guatemala's military, forced to cook for soldiers and dig pits in the earth.

This road movie takes viewers from the turbulent urban environment of Caracas to the rural landscapes of the Venezuelan state of Bolivar, all the way to the top of Mount Roraima.

Moreover, these migrants are no longer exclusively of rural origin, nor do they travel only to traditional areas in the US they are, literally, everywhere.

Fifth, increased investment in rural areas, provided for in the government s rescue plan, will help narrow the gap between urban rich and rural poor.

Rural farmers found themselves empowered to organize themselves, criticize some authorities and even dismiss their village chief.

Due to lack of funding, rural students in China are disadvantaged by systemic problems in areas like teaching, management, infrastructure and educational resources.

Boukary Konaté, a member of the Global Voices community in Mali, recently toured rural schools on a traditional Malian boat as part of a digital literacy project.

General Electric, for example, is cutting down the functions provided by its medical equipment to only what is strictly useful in order to supply remote rural clinics across the developing world.

Moreover, a world map showed outreach to rural areas of East Africa and Southeast Asia, and the room has been upgraded to reflect a still expanding global reach.

Their parent are rural migrant workers working in the city and the siblings are living with their grandparent.

The 23 special wards ( ku), which until 1943 constituted the city of Tokyo, are now separate, self governing municipalities, each having a mayor, a council, and the status of a city.