The report, Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa, says the share of Africans living in extreme poverty has fallen substantially—from 54% in 1990 to 41% in 2015—but due to high population growth ...

Poverty across the continent may be lower than what current estimates suggest, though the number of people living in extreme poverty has grown substantially since 1990, according to the latest World ...

“When people talk about Africa, they talk in terms of aid and in terms of helping the poor. But the middle class are the ones that create the most small and medium scale enterprises.

For nearly a century, people have reported mysterious epidemics of permanent paralysis in rural regions of Africa. In 1990, Hans Rosling a Swedish epidemiologist and pop-star statistician, who ...

Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people. It’s a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight of ...

Thus, men in sub-Saharan African spend 13% of their lives in poor health. Healthy life expectancy The average healthy life expectancy at birth in sub-Saharan Africa increased by 9.1 years, from 46 ...

A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the home consumption welfare of people living below the poverty line, especially during times of significant ...

When it comes to poverty, an already tragic situation has been worsened by the battering Africa’s fragile economies took from the coronavirus pandemic. One in three people are now unemployed in ...

To turn around the performance of South Africa’s health system and make it more equal, there are three challenges that need to be addressed. Faultlines in delivering good health care to poor ...

Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment. In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each ...

Data from Statistics South Africa’s 2010/2011 Income and Expenditure Survey showed that 42,115 white people lived below the official upper bound poverty line of R779 per person per month. This ...

Torrential rain, severe winds and landslides have killed at least 49 people in the poverty-stricken Eastern Cape province of ...