Agricuture Ministry of Russia has developed a draft of the State program of integrated development of rural territories (SP IDRT) for 2020–20251. Fundamental difference of the new program from the current Federal Target Program “Sustainable development of rural areas for 2014–2017 and the...

The State is implementing the policy of labor market (human resource) development in rural areas in the framework of the State Program for Comprehensive Development of Rural Areas (hereinafter – State Program)1. It is expected that the allocation of state subsidies designed to cover the costs...

The recent development of the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM), a culturally appropriate test for children aged 50 to 69 months for all eleven South Africa’s official languages, offers benchmarks against which children’s development can be tested. This paper compares the programme gains...

Rural development policy addresses the welfare of rural households and communities. With a majority of the world's poor located in rural areas, the resilience of rural poverty in industrialized countries, and a significant share of environmental degradation the byproduct of rural poverty, the...

Beyond fostering economic growth, policymakers in Malaysia have had to grapple conceptually and operationally with income inequalities between different parts of the country. Beyond its complexity, this challenge has also changed over time - in line with Malaysia's increasing wealth and...