Businesses that take a strategic approach to design are up to eight times more likely to develop innovative products than those that don't, according to a study by scientists from Penn State's College ...

Geneva, Switzerland (ILO News) - As part of the 2025 ILO Academy on Rural Development, held online, the ILO Cooperative, Social and Solidarity Economy Unit (COOP/SSE), hosted a “Coffee with Experts” ...

The divergence in economic outcomes across different geographic regions in the U.S. over the past two decades has spurred new interest among policymakers in pursuing place-based policies. The effects ...

Government officials, academics, civil society leaders, development practitioners, young people and rural community representatives have called for a fundamental shift in Africa’s rural development ...

Globally, rural areas face challenges such as population decline, job shortages, and deepening urban-rural divides, exacerbated by rapid urbanization and industrialization. In China, these issues ...

ORONO — For more than a decade, Maine-based nonprofit Rural Aspirations Project has worked with schools across the state with a simple goal in mind: To expand educational opportunities that inspire ...

A considerable number of people live in rural areas in Bangladesh, about 62% of the total population in Bangladesh. Globalization has made significant changes in both rural and city lives. While some ...

EU funded Local Action Groups supported by Mercy Corps, People in Need, CARE Austria and ELARD mobilised local government, private sector and civil society and helped create over 600 new permanent ...

Dhaka, Oct. 9 -- The government of Bangladesh and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are carrying forward their long-standing partnership with two investments worth a combined ...

Toilet paper and ventilators may be unlikely bedfellows, but they serve as powerful symbols of the growing tensions between urban and rural regions in Australia and elsewhere amid the COVID-19 ...