Focused on four southern and eastern African nations, the pilot project mapped poverty about as accurately as existing asset index methods, but for more useful measures—including the share of ...

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 ...

Focused on four southern and eastern African nations, the pilot project mapped poverty about as accurately as existing asset index methods, but for more useful measures – including the share of ...

argues that broadening people’s access to jobs and public services represents one of Africa’s best prospects for accelerating poverty reduction and maps out a framework that can help economies remove ...

Africa Renewal is a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments. We cover the challenges the continent faces and the solutions to these by ...

she argues that aid has failed to deliver sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction—and has actually made the continent worse off . To remedy this, Moyo presents a road map for Africa to wean ...

African countries can learn from such cases to improve the infrastructure in rural areas to reduce poverty. I have also seen many Chinese companies playing a role in poverty alleviation efforts ...

China now ranks as the most prolific country in poverty reduction, having lifted some 850 million people from penury in just about three decades, according to the World Bank. In Africa ...