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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 ...
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 ...
The researchers used machine learning – the science of designing computer algorithms that learn from data – to extract information about poverty from high-resolution satellite imagery.
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 ...
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 ...
Africa possesses 92 percent of global reserves of platinum, 56 per cent of Cobalt, 54 per cent of Manganese and 36 per cent of Chromium. These are the minerals employed in the manufacturing of the ...
For Africa to thrive, its agricultural sector must be optimally used to drive growth, especially given the rapid population increase projected for the region.
129 million in poverty Poverty has soared to hit more than half of the population over the last six years, according to the World Bank. “Since 2018, the share of Nigerians living below the national ...