SOURCE Authors’ analysis of age-adjusted death rates for 2007 and 2017 from the National Vital Statistics System, National Center for Health Statistics. NOTES A checkmark signifies that the target has ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A World Bank program has supported China’s fight against poverty through institutional innovations. Big data and a project management information system, together with integrated use of funds, have ...

Successive governments, non-governmental organisations, policymakers and development practitioners must move beyond cash hand-outs and ...