One in four citizens report going without basic necessities on a frequent basis.Key findings Large numbers of Africans continue to struggle to meet their most basic needs. Majorities report going ...

Every year the President of the country makes all kinds of promises in the State of the Nation Address. Every year 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 ...

Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s ...

In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 16 percent of the world’s population, but 67 percent of the people living in extreme poverty. Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in ...

In it, he advocates the distribution of chickens in sub-Saharan Africa as a means of alleviating extreme poverty – improving the lot of people making less than US$2 a day. Gates argues that ...

Yumiko Nobue’s childhood dream was to work as a veterinarian in Africa treating exotic animals ... Austrian native Anna Dengel to provide poor people with better access to health care.

create jobs and “lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.” The institute sees Tatu City as a model. Yet building new cities is hard. Africa is littered with failed projects. A handful ...

Given the country’s fiscal constraints, we further compared the impact of only increasing one of the aforementioned variables. We found that increasing the size of the grant was more effective at ...

But sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing while still poor. “Towns and cities in Africa today simply lack the tax base needed to invest in the urban infrastructure needed to accommodate the tsunami of ...

For the 5,000 people ... Africa, champions of the idea hope that new-city developments can address the continent's urbanization conundrum: While the growth of cities has rolled back poverty ...