Women creating more businesses The middle class in Africa has experienced significant growth, reaching 34% over the last thirty years, according to figures from the The African Development Bank Group.

Africa is the poorest continent in the world. There are, as always, a lot of factors to consider as to why that is the case, but recently Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson from MIT have ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has said that the security challenges bedeviling Africa are directly linked to poverty, with over 50 percent ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic growth. Economic growth has been slow since a recession in 2008.

ST. LOUIS — It's time for our Show Me Something Good series. Friday morning, the Show Me Team is spotlighting a local nonprofit called Microfinancing Partners in Africa, also known as, MPA ...

A Dashchund reclines on a miniature custom-made dog sun lounger beside the pool at Vienna's Village luxury dog hotel and daycare in Cape Town, South Africa. In a country with widespread poverty ...

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance has proposed reforms to bolster economic growth and called for a spending review after it blocked a surprise plan to hike value-added tax, delaying the ...

In 2021, as the economy reeled from the pandemic, a one-year expansion of the child tax credit led to a historic 46 percent decline in the child poverty rate. But new census data shows a dramatic ...

Many people have called for Nigeria and Africa to incorporate blockchain technology into daily life; however, poverty must first be conquered before blockchain technology can be properly ...