Report warns of surging severe poverty across Africa
Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...
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Survey reveals Morocco's poverty rate at 3%, with advances in income, healthcare, and food access
A recent survey shows that extreme poverty in Morocco has decreased to around 3%, with the country’s poverty index dropping ...
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Africa: Decade of Destitution? Severe Lived Poverty Is Surging in Many African Countries
Lived poverty varies widely across the continent in extent, intensity, and trajectory. For example, over the past decade, severe material deprivation has fallen in Liberia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gabon, ...
'Structural poverty' maps could steer help to world's neediest
Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...
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Jakkie Cilliers: ‘Africa’s population surge condemns it to poverty’
On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a ...
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World Bank: 2% growth won’t ease SA’s poverty, unemployment
The World Bank cautions that a 2% GDP growth rate in South Africa is insufficient to significantly reduce poverty and ...
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World Bank has good news for South Africa
The World Bank has lifted South Africa’s growth forecast, expecting things to get even better from here on out.
Kenya — a window into Africa’s demographic future
People are getting educated, and that changes perceptions about childbirth’ © Brian Otieno/FT As the decline in fertility rates across most continents has gathered pace — to a point where many ...
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Transforming South Africa’s Education System: A Key to Inclusive Economic Growth
The report notes that South Africa’s economy is recovering following the successful political transition in 2024 and the near ...