Rural development can be possible through the eradication of rural unemployment as large chunk of the rural folk has been under disguised employment. With this background, Government of India thought that providing employment opportunities to rural poor would result in improving the living...

Poverty alleviation is a hallmark of post-revolution Chinese policymaking. Since 1978, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has implemented successive waves of poverty alleviation policies whose effects have become the focus of an ever-increasing body of academic literature. This paper reviews the...

This study focuses on the longstanding impoverishment of the rural South and three of its subregions - the Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and the Black Belt. The poor quality of life in rural Appalachia and along the Mississippi Delta has been publically acknowledged by public programs and...

Using an exclusive data set from Indonesia in 2018-2020, this study aims to prove whether there is a relationship between the allocation of village funds and the level of hunger in the community. In particular, this study tries to find out whether the Village Fund allocation policy has an effect...