Caryn Peiffer and Richard Rose, authors of the recent study (), show that the poor are more likely to pay bribes because they are more vulnerable to bribery.They argue that poor people are ...

But Africa is producing bigger and bigger numbers of poor people, so poor so desperate” says Ali Mufuruki, CEO of Tanzania’s Infotech Investment Group and member of the International Monetary ...

Blessed with rich environments and vast natural resources, Sub-Saharan Africa should certainly not be poor. But for huge numbers of people across the continent grinding poverty and hardship are ...

Almost every African I met, who was not actually in government, blamed corrupt African leaders for their plight. "The gap between the rich and the poor in Africa is still growing," said a fisherman on ...

Even among poor, mobile Web is big in Africa. By Michael Malakata. Jun 22, 2015 9:00 am PDT. Eighty-seven million people in Nigeria browse the Internet on mobile phones, ...

The IMF report on Africa’s economy has identified the ten poorest countries in Africa which have the lowest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in 2025.

The Economic Report on Africa for 2021 blamed the growing poverty on job ... of goods has increased the number of newly poor on the continent by 55 million people and pushed 39 million ...

“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.

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 ...

The number of people living in extreme poverty is becoming concentrated in some of the most unstable and populous parts of Africa, raising the risk of political violence and devastating disease ...

The BBC's Mark Doyle travels Africa to try and answer the question, "Why is Africa poor?" BBC News Updated every minute of every day One-Minute World News ...