Rural poverty is rife and has a big impact on students’ educational outcomes – but it often goes unnoticed by government ...

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 ...

What does the evidence suggest? Is the weight of the world's enormous poverty problem, historically a predominantly rural phenomenon, shifting to urban areas? Is urbanization good or bad from the ...

Pembrokeshire food supplier Puffin produce is helping the fight against food poverty with FareShare and UK’s largest rural insurer.

A charity says it hopes to remove "digital poverty" in its local area by helping rural communities to have ... Working in partnership with Age UK, social services and local libraries, the project ...

‘Digital poverty’ disproportionately affects rural areas, and with almost 92% ... but with the rising cost of broadband and ...

Rural poverty in India has notably dropped to 4.86% in 2023-24, down from 25.7% in 2011-12, driven by government support. Urban poverty also declined to 4.09%. Increased consumption and ...

There has been a remarkable decline in rural poverty, which according to the Consumption Expenditure Survey, is estimated at 4.86 per cent in FY24 (7.2 per cent in FY23 and 25.7 per cent in FY12 ...

Rural poverty declined faster in rural India over the course of the year, as the poverty ratio dipped below 5 percent for the first time, according to analysis by SBI Research. A sharp rise in ...