As Nigeria battles with escalating number of people living in extreme poverty, policy and development experts are proffering solutions on how to tackle rural poverty. In this interview with Victor ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

Rural poverty has dropped sharply to 4.86% in the fiscal year ending March 2024, down from 25.7% in 2011-12, primarily due to ...

Social determinants of health (SDOH) have more influence on health than either genetic factors or access to healthcare services, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As a ...

Malaysia’s poverty rate is falling, but for many households, life is not getting easier. If you earn above the poverty line, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Analyses of people with early-onset colorectal cancer showed those who lived in rural communities had shorter ...

Rural students in northern Michigan face a tough choice between leaving for college or staying close to home for trade work.

NRLM’s 15th anniversary sees the release of “Claiming Our Skies”, charting rural women’s self-help groups, livelihoods, and ...

In the transition period over the past five years to consolidate the gains of China's hard-won victory over extreme poverty, President Xi Jinping has called for sustained and targeted assistance to ...

As the White House raises the costs of H-1B visas to an unprecedented $100,000, new research finds that rural and high-poverty communities rely the most on international physicians who get the permits ...

The country has lifted more than 700mn people out of indigence, but some doubt Xi Jinping’s claim that the mission is complete ...