Mark Shucksmith, professor of planning at Newcastle University, Jane Atterton, senior lecturer and manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland's Rural College and Jayne Glass, researcher in ...

Boys who grow up in rural poverty achieve higher levels of success than their urban peers because of the “predominance of two-parent households,” a new study found. “Why do kids born into poverty in ...

Newcastle University received funding to support this research from Standard Life Foundation, a charity whose objective is to address financial hardship. Mark Shucksmith was principal investigator but ...

Recreation may appear to cure rural poverty, but experts suggest that it may just relocate it. Figure 1. The percentage of amenity types that comprise rural counties with persistent poverty. “Rural” ...

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 ...