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 ...

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

The global economy needs to be fundamentally reordered to prioritise the needs of ordinary people rather than the “frivolous ...

(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 ...

Like sunlight breaking through dawn, Shibadong's "targeted poverty alleviation" experience began to inspire places far beyond its mountains. Via this strategy, China had lifted 98.99 million ...

Trainees attend the opening ceremony of the training course on poverty alleviation through Juncao technology for women in developing countries in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Oct. 21, ...

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 ...