"So many Africans and non-Africans made their fortune here, including some of the richest people in my own country, the ...

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 ...

The Earth Institute’s Millennium Villages Project is a “bottom up” approach to lifting developing country villages out of the poverty trap ... in rural Africa, (ii) identify mechanisms ...

In the heart of Africa, where hunger is a daily battle and poverty is a relentless storm ... searching for a morsel to keep them alive. In forgotten villages and overcrowded slums, children ...

But there’s another metric – the surge in extreme poverty – that describes the most severe effect of the pandemic on people in Africa. While recession, infections and hospitals dominate the current ...