“The main messages which emerge from this effort to assess poverty in Africa are both encouraging and sobering,” said Kathleen Beegle, World Bank program leader and co-author of the report. “Although ...

In the 25 years from 1990 to 2015, the extreme poverty rate dropped an average of a percentage point per year – from nearly 36% to 10%. But the rate dropped only one percentage point in the two years ...

2. Sub-Saharan Africa Faces the Highest Poverty Rates Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with 413 million individuals-approximately 42% of the ...

Uganda has since embarked on several interventions to improve people’s livelihoods, including Poverty Eradication Action Plan ...

Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. But persistent problems, including poverty, the effects of climate change, and weak governance, are fuelling widespread social ...

All this makes escaping extreme poverty even harder. In response to this global poverty situation among ... poverty among 190,000 displacement-affected and host community households in over 35 ...

Ramaphosa acknowledged that South Africa was characterised by extreme inequality, poverty, and unemployment. “Unemployment defines the conditions of the lives of many of our people, communities ...