Progress on tackling child poverty in Northern Ireland has stalled and focusing on work alone will not shift the dial on ...

Recreation may appear to cure rural poverty, but experts suggest that it may just relocate it. Figure 1. The percentage of amenity types that comprise rural counties with persistent poverty. “Rural” ...

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 ...

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.

Helen Carr receives funding from a consortium of rural and housing charities led by English Rural to fund this research. Carin Tunåker receives funding from a consortium of rural and housing charities ...

The no recourse to public funds policy is aimed at “temporary migrants”. But many children in households subject to the ...

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 ...

The UK government is expected to soon publish its ten-year child poverty strategy, designed to tackle the root causes of poverty for children. Poverty is an issue for families from all backgrounds.