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 persistent challenge of falsified or misrepresented qualifications in South Africa exposes serious shortcomings in recruitment and appointment processes. Although the scale of the problem is ...

A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the home consumption welfare of people ...

Growing external debt burdens are crippling the world's poorest countries, a group of former African leaders warned on Thursday as they pushed for a new programme of collective relief from private, ...

Free Starlink text communication for poor people in Africa and Asia can double some of their earnings. Poor people can use it ...

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 ...

Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging ...

Many African countries are facing acute economic challenges. As the number of super-rich on the continent grows, so do calls to impose wealth taxes.

Many people buy offal to eat because they cannot afford better cuts of meat. Budget 2025 just emphasises the inequality in ...