A good economic-development plan builds on the strengths of residents, not just on physical infrastructure. A small-town mayor describes how his community found new ways to create opportunity. Years ...

July 6, 2025, was celebrated as World Rural Development Day. Established by United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclamation on September 6, 2024, it was to highlight the importance of rural ...

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

In the minds of many Kenyans, cooperative movement, especially in the agricultural sector, is a corrupt, mismanaged and good-for-nothing sector. This perception has continued because the Government ...

MONTEVIDEO — A rural New London community organizer and energy democracy program director for CURE is helping implement the new Empowering Rural America program, which is applauded as an historic ...

The government has changed the statutory framework of the scheme, guaranteeing 125 days of wage employment per rural ...

Looking back at history, we can say that the rise of India’s digital payment ecosystem is being marked by a slew of government initiatives, which mainly include demonetisation in 2016, aimed at ...

Shravan Kumar was speaking at the function organised here by the rural development department (RDD) to mark the launching of ...