World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday that reducing poverty and supporting economic development in Africa will be his top priority, along with modernizing the bank’s cumbersome ...
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Africans are getting wealthier more quickly than previously believed, according to a new study that also suggests the poorest continent's riches are spreading beyond the narrow confines of its elite. ...
The United Nations has sounded the alarm on the Ebola outbreak in DRC, highlighting its dire implications for African ...
Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, according to a new report. The report, "Decade of Destitution? Severe Lived ...
South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic growth. Economic growth has been slow since a recession in 2008. The annual ...
African Poverty Tops G-8 AgendaPresident Bush and other world leaders kicked off the G-8 summit Monday in Japan, with poverty in Africa at the top of the agenda. Three years ago, members set a goal of ...
Nations vowing to wipe out poverty in Africa have failed to come through with sufficient aid, an international advocacy group said in a report released Monday, urging them to make good on their ...
Africa’s middle classes are the financial backbone of the continent with many creating the small and medium enterprises that drives job creation and economic development. Yet many are only one ...
* Study says African poverty falling faster than thought * Challenges view that poor being left behind By Ed Cropley, African Investment Correspondent JOHANNESBURG, March 4 (Reuters) - Africans are ...