The number of rural Americans living in poverty has skyrocketed in recent years amidst an economic evolution that has cost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and mining jobs. Poverty rates have ...

[imgbelt img=2009Poverty528.jpg]Poverty rates in rural America are higher than in urban or exurban counties, and these rates have gone up in the recession. But there are large regional differences ...

Rural children are more than twice as likely as urban kids to grow up in areas where a high proportion of young people live in poverty for generations, a new report says. That concentration of ...

The Daily Yonder reports rural Americans face rising heating costs, struggling with energy insecurity as federal aid programs ...

Ask Americans what parts of the country are the most poverty-stricken and they will probably talk about cities like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in ...

The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional. They involve, among other things, culture, climate, gender, markets, and public policy. Likewise, the rural poor are quite diverse both in ...

Dan Brockington received funding from the DfID / ESRC Growth Research Programme to conduct this work, and gratefully acknowledges that funding. The grant reference is ES/L012413/2. One of the clearest ...

The developing world is becoming more urban. Some observers see this as the unwelcome precursor to new poverty problems, such as urban slums blossoming in congested cities. Yet others see it as a ...

New World Bank support aims to scale up results to date and to benefit more poor communities across Lao PDR. Since 2003, the Poverty Reduction Fund has been supporting the improvement of rural poor’s ...

While it is often argued that the economic benefits of oil palm plantations outweigh the environmental costs of converting biodiverse ecosystems to monocultures, new analysis suggests that the role of ...