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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump administration. Rural hospitals and their obstetrics wards have been closing at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HEREFORDSHIRE'S worst spot for fuel poverty has been revealed as the Iran war continues to push prices up. The worst-hit area ...

About 75.5 per cent of rural Nigerians are now living below the poverty line, reflecting deepening hardship in the country’s hinterlands, the World Bank, has disclosed. The disclosure was made in the ...

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 ...