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 ...

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 ...

This report provides information about poverty in Africa. The continent has the highest share of people living in poverty globally. First, it shows Africa's poverty, inequality, and wealth ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 47 developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual ...

the fight against multidimensional poverty remains a massive challenge. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for 553 million people trapped in poverty, while South Asia is home to another 402 million.

Weaponisation of material poverty is very real in Africa. Starvation and general material poverty have stolen the peoples’ dignity as well as power to resist oppression and exploitation ...

While Ghana was the country with the least affordable menstrual products of those we surveyed, women across Africa are struggling with "period poverty" - something activists are trying to change.

Nigeria is Africa's largest economy and the continent's biggest oil producer. But it is a country where more than half the population lives in poverty, and 60% of the urban population cannot ...