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

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

Hajia Lamnatu Adam, Executive Director of Songtaba, a development-centred NGO operating in the Northern Region, has expressed concern over disproportionate impact of time poverty on women and girls.

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

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 ...

Nations vowing to wipe out poverty in Africa have failed to come through with sufficient aid, an international advocacy group said in a report released Monday, urging them to make good on their ...

"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.

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 ...

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