Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

This fact sheet [1] highlights the progress of rural women against key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators, pointing to some of the advancements made and gaps that still exist. It suggests ...

Rural development programs aim to spur business development and improve rural quality of life. These programs directly affect the economic health of rural areas in real ways, such as by providing ...

USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

PUTRAJAYA: The Rural and Regional Development Ministry has identified five key focus areas as the foundation for the planning and implementation of rural development programmes to ensure sustainable, ...

MAKING A HISTORIC INVESTMENT IN RURAL HEALTHCARE: Today, President Donald J. Trump celebrated the largest ever investment in rural healthcare, enacted in his signature Working Families Tax Cuts Act.