One reason for the differing rates of access stems from social and cultural norms that prevent women from accessing appropriate care.
Is it worth slightly decreased rates of access for certain groups of people?
South Africa, for instance, has the same overall rate of access to sanitation as Nicaragua.
Australian Medical Association [AMA] vice president, Dr Stephen Parnis, said the Asia-Pacific region and in particular, Papua New Guinea, had among the lowest rates of access to safe sanitation in the world.
Then you look at the rates of access to water, access to adequate healthcare, access to education, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and you see that we are basically where the DRC is, where Haiti is.
Business and financial managers, for example, had some of the highest rates of access to such benefits at 52 percent, compared with 17 percent for workers in the service industry.
In contrast, high-income individuals were 21percentt more likely to have Internet access, while women, blacks and Hispanics had lower rates of access by just 4percentt, 5 percent and 8percentthanan the average.
And the number of people doing so grew by 45% in the six months to June far higher than the rate of access growth using laptops, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre.This year China overtook America as the country with the largest number of internet users currently over 250m.
Table 10 Rate of access to rural development policies n.
The high costs of using European policies, in terms of bureaucracy, transaction costs, etc. could be a first motivation to explain low rates of access.
