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

“The main messages which emerge from this effort to assess poverty in Africa are both encouraging and sobering,” said Kathleen Beegle, World Bank program leader and co-author of the report. “Although ...

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

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

The former Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has warned that one of the biggest threats to democracy today is ...

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.

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement to expand the social relief of distress grant aims to provide a sustainable income ...

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 situation among ... poverty among 190,000 displacement-affected and host community households in over 35 ...

Given the country’s fiscal constraints, we further compared the impact of only increasing one of the aforementioned variables. We found that increasing the size of the grant was more effective at ...