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, ...

While 2025 is still very early, so far there hasn’t been much positive movement in the fortunes of Africa’s richest billionaires. ・Positive movement in the fortunes of Africa’s richest ...

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

In the best-case scenario, extremely poor Africans make up 35% of the continent’s population in 2030 The World Bank agrees. It calculates that the 2020 downturn will likely increase sub-Saharan Africa ...

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 ...