Sentence examples for rural backwardness from inspiring English sources

"A lot of multinationals are present there, but also rural backwardness and patches of extreme poverty".

For generations, this island state has suffered patronising remarks from Sydneysiders about its rustic, rural backwardness and its supposed "Deliverance -style in-breeDeliverance -style

But Gozo, separated from the mainland by 8km of sea, remains unfazed in its rural backwardness; it's an idyllic writer's retreat of rural gentility, with stunning coastal scenery.

Insect-eating was long regarded with shame and disgust by elite Mexicans, who viewed the practice as a vestige of rural backwardness.

Dr. Singhal said these factors, combined with what is widely described as the "Alabama" stigma, which is associated with images of racial prejudice and rural backwardness from past decades, sharply limits recruitment.

As a fleeting glimpse of the Old Weird America of tent-shows and carnivals and rural backwardness that was long gone before anyone thought to commit it to celluloid.

Most of them, shocked by the poverty and backwardness of rural life, became disillusioned.

For every story about feudalism, caste repression and the ongoing backwardness of a largely rural country, Mr Das counters with optimism about a bright, fast-rising, urban middle class.

According to him, these rural areas in South India are "marked by economic backwardness," and the elderly in these regions are a liability due to the high medical bills and the inaccessibility of health care.

Despite its rural origins and despite often accidentally reinforcing the idea of Serbian backwardness (Suzuki?), turbofolk's association with the lifestyles of the rich mafiosi in control of the cities gave it an air of de facto legitimacy and made it, for lack of any alternative, the main avenue of glamour and success in Milošević's Belgrade.

The authors go as far as inferring an eastern German "resistance to modernization," a "barrier" to modernization, and a "backwardness" of mentalities from their qualitative study in a rural region of eastern Germany.