Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

This article was originally published on Brookings Future Development Blog. On December 27, 2022, the New York Times published an essay I wrote calling for a renaissance in federal rural policy. My ...

Mark Haggerty and Julia Haggerty explore the role of fiscal policy in understanding barriers to economic development in rural America. The role of state and local government fiscal policy in driving ...

Landscape around Kenyon College, the host of the February 18th, 2021 panel, entitled “The Future of Rural America under President Biden.” (Photo by Daniel Napsha) Rural perspectives should be present ...

Rural Kentucky stands at an economics crossroads. Balancing Kentucky’s energy portfolio and rural development can restore those communities and chart a new path forward. With the elections this ...

Most of the presidential candidates, including President Donald Trump, support using taxpayer funds to provide direct subsidies to farmers through price support, federal crop insurance, and other farm ...

Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has declared that his government deliberately adopted a unique Rural Development Policy to unlock the potentials of all towns and ensure that none of the 140 ...