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 ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...

China has successfully lifted 7.1 million rural residents with disabilities out of poverty and has integrated disability ...

Harnessing Science, technology and innovation for poverty alleviation and structural transformation in Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ...

A recent report gauged the economic damage done by fishing fleets with shady track records in five vulnerable countries: Ecuador, Ghana, Peru, the Philippines, and Senegal. It found that these fleets’ ...

(Adds details, quotes throughout) By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Tuesday more people are living in extreme poverty in developing countries than previously ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...