Rural poverty accounts for nearly 63 percent of poverty worldwide, reaching 90 percent in some countries like Bangladesh and between 65 and 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. (Exceptions to this ...

The 48th IFAD Governing Council concluded with a collective call to action to accelerate investments in rural communities, ...

On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, according to a new report. The report, "Decade of Destitution? Severe Lived ...

the fight against multidimensional poverty remains a massive challenge. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for 553 million people trapped in poverty, while South Asia is home to another 402 million.

Afrobarometer surveys in the 2000s and 2010s tracked the same downward trends in poverty rates in Africa as measured by the proportions of people who tell interviewers that they go without a ...

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

The unemployed continue to outweigh the employed and those living in abject poverty ... down to rural communities and local small businesses, they are counter intuitive to South Africa’s agenda ...