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

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 ...

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 ...

and a stock exchange that is Africa’s largest and among the top 20 in the world. Economic growth has decelerated in recent years, slowing to an estimated 0.7% in 2017. Unemployment, poverty, and ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a ...