The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Since 2021, three World Bank-supported projects in Ethiopia have helped expand digital access significantly, benefiting more than seven million Ethiopians to date and facilitating the transition to a ...

(Beirut) – Governments of the Middle East and North Africa region should develop and fund comprehensive social protection systems that fulfill all people’s right to social security, Human Rights Watch ...

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 ...