[Part I.] Rural people and their communities: [Ch. 1.] Rural people and their work -- [Ch. 2.] The Negro population of the South -- [Ch. 3.] Rural poverty: the special case of the aged -- [Ch. 4.] ...

In a gesture both symbolic and strategic, the General Assembly declared July 6 as World Rural Development Day, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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 ...