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 ...

The yawning economic gap between rural areas and the rest of the United States shows up in higher permanent nonemployment rates, higher minimum-wage employment, opioid abuse, incarceration, and ...

Mark Haggerty and Julia Haggerty explore the role of fiscal policy in understanding barriers to economic development in rural America. The role of state and local government fiscal policy in driving ...

Rural America's health equity is inseparable from its economic well-being, and aligning these two crucial fields is essential for achieving true rural prosperity. The people who know this best are ...

Most of the presidential candidates, including President Donald Trump, support using taxpayer funds to provide direct subsidies to farmers through price support, federal crop insurance, and other farm ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to more accurately reflect the effects of executive actions taken by President ...

In what has become a postelection tradition, there has been no shortage of analysis the past several weeks about rural voters and their role in determining the outcome of the midterms. Yet during a ...

(Top photo, by Shawn Poynter) Marlene Chavez, director of community engagement and outreach at Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, speaks on a panel with Maureen Holland at the 2018 Rural Assembly in Durham, ...

Rural development and governance in Europe have evolved into a dynamic interplay between tried-and-tested local practices and modern policy innovations. Contemporary frameworks seek to balance ...

Poverty alleviation is important in 2020. This is a benchmark year — China’s socialist experiment is supposed to deliver a ‘moderately well-off society’ in 2020 before making the big push towards a ...

Mr. Pipa is a senior fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution. In what has become a postelection tradition, there has been no shortage of analysis the past several ...