Massive dependence on borewells, uneven recharge patterns and rising industrial extraction are increasing Karnataka’s water ...

Despite huge leaps in recent decades, rural living standards remain an issue of widespread popular concern in China. A heating crisis in Hebei last winter, for example, became the focus of intense ...

Who’s losing ground?: Older Americans, renters, and rural residents are struggling most, with incomes unable to keep pace with rising living costs. Why it matters: Poverty among seniors has risen to ...

In the San Luis Valley, the ongoing megadrought and a record-low snowpack are draining groundwater and increasing its ...

Medical bills are quietly becoming one of the most damaging financial burdens for aging Americans. Even with insurance in ...

Though rarely discussed as an economic thinker, Rabindranath Tagore developed a humanistic vision of rural society, technology and development that combined ethical ideals with inherent tensions ...

Costs have risen across almost all areas of daily life, including house rent, healthcare, education, transport, clothing, and energy-related expenses.

Despite contentions that the state Department of Motor Vehicles is not doing enough to get access for those who want ...

Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is ...

Thousands of hectares of communal land set aside for smallholder farmers’ use in South Africa are lying fallow because of ...

The superintendent plans to prioritize maintaining state-funded prekindergarten programs at schools in rural areas and those ...