Billionaires in the leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the world's poor ...

Poverty continues to be a huge problem in South Africa and it seems that there are only a few of our leaders who sincerely concerned and committed to its complete eradication. We have tolerated its ...

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children. Africa’s population of more than ...

Paul Alaje, a senior economist, said on Saturday that Africa’s poverty crisis is being driven by weak institutions, low ...

One in five Africans face hunger due to climate-related events. Agrivoltaics can help alleviate these challenges.

Stanford scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across ...

Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to ...

Poverty especially on an absolute scale, is a devastating economic/financial disease afflicting most (if not all) human societies across diverse geographies and time periods. However, the intensity ...

An estimated 2 million Africans die each year of AIDS, and 24 million are infected with HIV. Malaria, cholera and even polio are on the rise in... AIDS, Other Diseases Create Poverty Trap in Africa ...

Africa’s economic growth is hinging on creating 1 billion jobs by the end of the century. Where will it find them?

South African authorities say they are planning for multiple protests by local and international activists around this ...