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 ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 47 developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, two out of every three people are without access to electricity, and it is this energy poverty that is handicapping the region’s economic development Eskom’s Duvha Power Station ...

Sub-Saharan Africa must increase economic growth to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This article discusses some obstacles to growth in the region, as well as some policy actions that ...

Nonetheless, the economic and social situation in sub-Saharan Africa remains fragile and vulnerable to domestic and external shocks, and the region has a long way to go to make up for the ground lost ...

Sub-Saharan Africa stands out globally as having the highest extreme poverty rate, high levels of inequality, and the weakest transmission of growth to poverty reduction. Of the 700 million people ...

MUCH has been said and written about the state of development of Mindanao recently. I will not get into the "Sub-Saharan" ...

Many large families engaged in small-scale agriculture still share housing with goats, chicken, and harvested crops ...

While there are still huge problems of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa especially, there is growing optimism about tackling the issue of poverty. Africa is among the fastest-growing regions in the ...

In 2019, the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a bold and transformative initiative: Mission 300. This ambitious program aims to provide electricity to 300 million people in ...