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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, Africa's partners could provide support by honoring their existing financial commitments to the reduction of poverty. We must not overlook the efforts of the institutions that safeguard the ...

which spoke to 43,143 people across 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Corruption creates and increases poverty and exclusion. While corrupt individuals with political power enjoy a lavish life, ...

The most immediate consequence of poverty is not having enough nutritious ... Hunger and the risk of famine remain very high in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly one child in five under the age of ...

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 ...

Poverty forces them beneath the earth to search for gold. Some will be arrested for illegal mining. Some will die. BBC Africa Eye meets the migrants who risk everything to go deep underground in ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 1.1-mile-long concrete colossus, is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa ... Egyptians into darkness and poverty. That rhetoric is ...