An investigation by the ICIJ reveals that World Bank investments in private hospitals in East Africa have pushed patients ...

On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14169, imposing a 90‑day freeze on nearly all U.S. foreign ...

The government must focus on improving development outcomes in the districts that have the lowest development indicators.

Boosting education and skills training as well as improving transport and strengthening social protection would help people ...

African governments and development agencies have embraced science, technology and innovation as levers for development over ...

"Africa is reducing poverty, and doing it much faster than we thought," the study by U.S.-based economists Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy said.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday that reducing poverty and supporting economic development in Africa will be his top priority, along with modernizing the bank’s cumbersome ...

Economics Magatte Wade on Africa, Foreign Aid, and Free Markets "We are poor because we don't let our entrepreneurs work," says the director of the Center for African Prosperity at the Atlas ...

Sub-Saharan Africa currently serves as the epicenter of global extreme poverty. The rate of extreme poverty in that region is about 35 percent, representing 60 percent of all extreme poverty ...

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Unemployment rate, Black or African American, accessed June 17, 2024 U.S. Census Bureau, Official Poverty Measure — Historical Table 2.

Nigerian growth lags Africa, poverty rising, says World Bank By Reuters June 15, 202110:08 AM PDTUpdated June 15, 2021 ...

Show Me St. Louis Support Microfinancing Partners in Africa The local nonprofit is helping to eradicate African poverty. You can support them by attending their gala on 4/13.