A recent report analyzed the reasons why family planning has lost policy visibility, globally, and funding support on the basis of interviews with informants from developed and low-resource nations.

The overarching goal of the NTP is to build modern, prosperous, sustainable rural areas rich in cultural identity, in tandem with urbanization and climate adaptation. It aims to promote comprehensive ...

Lao PDR is now a lower-middle income country, and poverty has declined in recent years. However, impressive improvements at the national level have masked significant differences between regions and ...

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2018—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$400 million loan today to help enhance the impact and efficiency of the consolidated poverty reduction program of ...

Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

How does rural poverty develop, what accounts for its persistence, and what specific measures can be taken to eliminate or mitigate it? About one-fifth of the world's population is afflicted by ...

South Africa will need to review its land reform policy, with an eye to boosting productive land use among the rural poor, if it is to push back rising poverty levels. The country’s poverty levels ...

Vietnam’s success in reducing poverty highlights deeper issues as hardship becomes concentrated in specific regions and ...

The Everatt report’s basic flaw was it conflated and attributed poverty alleviating social transfers like free services and ...

Amadou Boubacar Cisse is Vice President of Operations of the Islamic Development Bank, overseeing the planning and implementation of the Bank's long-term financing activities in 56 member countries ...

The overall objective of the present study is to contribute to the knowledge-base that is urgently required for the implementation of sustainable rural development activities in Haiti. The study ...