In countries with high poverty, food insecurity, poor infrastructure, and low government capacity, this may involve designating transfers and subsidies to rural areas to protect the most vulnerable populations, such as women, children, the elderly and minority groups, and to enable them to meet their basic needs in order to live productive lives (Box 8.9). In some cases, it may mean providing incentives to the private sector to provide key services in remote regions. This may mean improving the flow of information and mobility between rural and urban areas, spurring the development of intermediary cities that can absorb rural labour, providing incentives for industries to locate in rural areas and for domestic and foreign investment to flow into rural areas, encouraging domestic private firms to invest in rural infrastructure and development, and so on. In all cases, government policy should explicitly target poverty in multiple dimensions (health and nutrition, education, other hard and soft infrastructure, job creation) and combat the exclusion of certain groups.