A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

ABOUT 7 million girls and women in South Africa lack access to menstrual products. Period poverty, the lack of access to affordable sanitary hygiene products, adversely impacts females ...

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 ...

Social critic and poet, Agbeye Oburumu, has emphasised the need for Africa to be free from its current state marked by widespread poverty, violent conflicts, human rights violations, and ...

While according to the World Bank, two-thirds of the world's poor reside in sub-Saharan Africa, the proposed way to assess poverty indicates that over one-third are in South Asia, with sub-Saharan ...

Although we can all agree that ending poverty is an urgent necessity, there appears to be increasing disagreement about the best way to achieve that goal. Born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia, Moyo has ...

Brazil has the highest poverty rate for such households at 54.8 percent, followed by South Africa at 49.8 percent. “Price surges are putting the lives of parents and children at risk,” said ...