WRIGHTSVILLE -- The National Institutes of Health have awarded the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences a $18.9 million grant to establish a new center to study health disparities in Black and ...

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 ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Seema Anand is a doctor of narrative practices and partner at Tharoor Associates. The ...

Poverty in America is structural and intentional. And rural poverty, especially so. Rural poverty was formed and compounded by intentional policy choices like the enslavement of pan-African people in ...

When most people hear the word poverty, they think of empty pockets, begging on the streets, or not being able to afford food. However, poverty is much deeper than just not having money. It can affect ...

Boys who grow up in rural poverty achieve higher levels of success than their urban peers because of the “predominance of two-parent households,” a new study found. “Why do kids born into poverty in ...

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 ...

Mark Shucksmith, professor of planning at Newcastle University, Jane Atterton, senior lecturer and manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland's Rural College and Jayne Glass, researcher in ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.According to the World Bank/Our ...

In a gesture both symbolic and strategic, the General Assembly declared July 6 as World Rural Development Day, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.