Officials and workers in the textile industry of the small African nation of Lesotho are holding their breath as a key deadline for U.S.-imposed tariffs approaches ...

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

Shifting from dirty fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy is the ultimate end goal under the global Just Transition ...

Former Senate President David Mark says only ADC can end insecurity, poverty and disunity in Northern Nigeria and restore ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.