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

Lived poverty varies widely across the continent in extent, intensity, and trajectory. For example, over the past decade, severe material deprivation has fallen in Liberia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gabon, ...

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

Cash transfers to vulnerable households have long been a topic of debate among development practitioners. While these ...

Stepped-up reforms such as an improved education system are essential if South Africa wants faster economic growth.

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

Since 1960, more than $2.6tn has been pumped into Africa in the form of aid. From 1970 and 1998, when aid was at its peak, ...

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

The World Bank raised its economic-growth forecast for South Africa because of a sustained recovery in its energy and ...