TRAVERSE CITY — Madhvi Dalal, the Nairobi social entrepreneur behind a fast-growing effort to end period poverty in East Africa brings a global problem — and a practical solution — to Traverse City.

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 ...

A new report warns that without urgent pension reforms, old-age poverty and funding gaps ...

The new Executive director and CEO of African Institute for capacity development Prof James Njiru (left) is congratulated by the outgoing boss Prof Dominic Byarugaba of Uganda at the organisation ...

Africa is the poorest continent in the world. There are, as always, a lot of factors to consider as to why that is the case, but recently Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson from MIT have released a ...

Poverty especially on an absolute scale, is a devastating economic/financial disease afflicting most (if not all) human societies across diverse geographies and time periods. However, the intensity ...

The 2007-2008 food price crisis revealed numerous symptoms in agricultural data in the development contexts. Poor quality and insufficient data, along with a lack of linkages between aggregate data ...