Rapid population growth has created difficulties in providing basic health and education services.
Providing basic health and education is not expensive where labour is cheap.
No quarrel, of course, with the virtuous aim of providing basic health and education.
This suggested switching expenditure in a pro-poor way, from things like indiscriminate subsidies to basic health and education.
He is a former cabinet minister, with an understanding of the basic health and welfare needs of Japan's rapidly aging society, and he projects a youthful persona.
In this context, well-supported women's groups have proven key, especially in areas of water, sanitation and other basic health and eye care activities.
Still, basic health and education indicators, as well as sewage and water and irrigation services, show little improvement, and unemployment is high.
In addition to this, the healthworks programme held training sessions and special days to raise awareness about basic health and nutrition.
Anonymised data sets of basic health and medical information about the population will be absolutely invaluable in increasing our understanding of successful ageing," he said.
Some housing advocacy groups think that as long as landlords adhere to basic health and safety policies, then rules about conversions should be relaxed.
Updated at 10.48am BST 10.40am BST Kevin Rudd, closing statement Rudd says his plan for the future is pretty basic: health and hospitals, education funding.
