A recent survey shows that extreme poverty in Morocco has decreased to around 3%, with the country’s poverty index dropping ...

“Although the data show that the share of the African population in extreme poverty did decline, major poverty challenges still remain, especially in light of the region’s rapid population growth.” ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again highlighted the ambition to turn the SRD grant into a permanent feature of the ...

2. Sub-Saharan Africa Faces the Highest Poverty Rates Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with 413 million individuals-approximately 42% of the ...

A 171-mile road project in a landlocked country in Africa is set to improve transport connections and provide a much-needed ...

Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by COVID-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation. 2024 was a bleak year for Africa. Libya and Sudan were partitioned.

In fact, the total number of poor in Sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing. In 2015, more extreme poor lived in that region than in the rest of the world combined. By 2030, under all but the most ...

"Globally, involvement by women in conversations surrounding climate change is limited, despite an increasing number of ...

Many African countries have transitioned from low-income to middle-income status based on Gross National Income (GNI) per ...

Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. But persistent problems, including poverty, the effects of climate change, and weak governance, are fuelling widespread social frustration.

All this makes escaping extreme poverty even harder. In response to this global poverty ... affected and host community households in over 35 countries in the regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin ...

The research was prompted by studies showing that 36 percent of the population in Africa lives in extreme poverty ...