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 ...

The ANC’s selective outrage and ideological battles are harming South Africa’s poor, jeopardizing the economy.

"So many Africans and non-Africans made their fortune here, including some of the richest people in my own country, the ...

We study the performance of this popular method in a number of African countries ... hurdle to examining whether antipoverty programs targeted at poor households reach poor people. Individual-level ...

COVID-19 is thus likely to trigger a debt crisis in some African countries unless creditors agree to substantive amelioration effects. Once again it is the poor who suffer most. There will be many ...

The Gates Foundation’s team saw in M-KOPA an opportunity to demonstrate that mobile financial services could help businesses get more such valuable products into the hands of a new market of eager ...

However, when poor people gain skills to access gainful employment, their fortunes can improve in real terms. The research ...