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 ...

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 ...

The national target program will be implemented over 10 years (2026–2035), and total resources mobilized for the 2026–2030 period are expected to reach at least VND1.23 quadrillion. Minister of ...

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 ...

With poverty index growing annually, the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Kwara State has partnered the Federal Government on the Village Alive Development ...

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 ...

As the General Assembly holds a special session in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the side-event “Transforming agrifood systems and fostering inclusive rural development in the context of COVID-19 ...

WASHINGTON D.C., June 26, 2019 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $300 million loan for Indonesia to accelerate rural poverty reduction and improve service delivery in over ...

Poverty reduction or alleviation or even eradication has been a well-known mantra of successive Nigeria’s governments. Under the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the rhetoric ...

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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 ...