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 ...

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, ...

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

The initiative, backed by seven former African heads of state, is calling for a plan modelled after the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) programme of the 1990s, to allow debtors to deal with ...