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 ...

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

In an emissions-focused world, do oil and gas revenues have a role to play in ending energy poverty in Africa? It may sound counterintuitive, but many would argue that they do, albeit as enablers of a ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja Purchase Licensing Rights The World Bank expects the Nigerian inflation rate in 2021 to be 16.5%. The forecast for sub-Saharan Africa, excluding Nigeria, is 5.9%.