“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 ...

Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...