A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...

Nearly one in 11 people in the world and one in five people in Africa go hungry every day, a crisis primarily driven by chronic inequality, climate change, conflict and economic instability. At the ...

Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa, rising to three ... of people living on less than $6.85 per day has remained unchanged over the past 30 years Based ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

and South Africa. The share of humanity who live in conditions of poverty has been falling since at least 1980. Measured as the proportion of people who live on less than $2.15 a day, the figure has ...

Heineken Lokpobiri, the minister of state for petroleum resources (Oil), has emphasised that Nigeria must address its energy ...

To catch up with global GDP per head, Africa would need average annual growth of 15% which is, of course, unachievable. So, with population growth outpacing economic expansion, is it inevitable that ...

with East Africa once again projected to be the most buoyant region. But reducing poverty and fostering job-creating economic growth remain critical priorities because about 464 million people in ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded ... However, unemployment and poverty remain acute among Black South Africans, who make up around 80% of the population, yet own a fraction ...

Despite more than $1 trillion in development aid given to Africa in the past 50 years, she argues that aid has failed to deliver sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction—and has actually made ...