According to a study from the World Bank, global poverty is unequally distributed among urban and rural areas: four out of five people with income below the poverty line live in rural regions.

Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) living in rural and impoverished areas face a significantly higher risk of dying from CRC. Previous research has shown that patients living in ...

In Britain, people imagine poverty as mainly an urban phenomenon. We think of poverty as rundown housing estates or tower blocks, far from the idyllic countryside scenes of shows like Escape to the ...

A study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health researchers is one of the first to provide insight into health and behaviors of reproductive-age ...

Researchers theorize that a greater incidence of two-parent households may explain the “rural advantage” in household income that children from rural areas have compared to their urban counterparts.

Chronic poverty in the developing world can seem like an insoluble problem. But a long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by an MIT economist presents a very different picture: When rural poor ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This story was originally published by the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and was produced through a collaboration with Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. On the day he ...

For a brief moment in the summer of 2023, the surprise No. 1 song “Rich Men North of Richmond” focused the country’s attention on a region that often gets overlooked in discussions of the U.S. economy ...

In a decisive step toward transforming India's grassroots economy, Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ...

Earlier this month, Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya ceremoniously unveiled their government’s Prajashakthi (Community Power) policy, declaring it would ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. On the day he would become homeless, ...