“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 ...

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

In the 25 years from 1990 to 2015, the extreme poverty rate dropped an average of a percentage point per year – from nearly 36% to 10%. But the rate dropped only one percentage point in the two years ...

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

By Kingsley MOGHALUStrengthening the trade between African countries is a necessary first step toward equipping the continent to engage with the world economy on its own terms. For too long, Africa ...

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.

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

Uganda has since embarked on several interventions to improve people’s livelihoods, including Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA), Entandikwa, Rural ...

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 ...