As the leaders of the G8 countries prepare to meet in Scotland, political activists and non-governmental organizations are mounting a vigorous campaign to force poverty to the top of the agenda.

Obi’s comments come amid growing concerns over food insecurity in several African countries, despite the continent holding 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. Obi, who was the Labour Party’s ...

In a bid to boost energy access and drive economic prosperity in Africa, the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has urged African nations to forge a ...

Stanford scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across ...

Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

Africa is home to most of the world’s poverty. Why? Mr Studwell argues that it is partly a result of “low-budget colonialism ...

Energy comprises a critical component of social and economic development in which the lack thereof serves as a direct hinderance to economic growth. Despite being arguably the richest continent in ...

The G-8 Summit is being held on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and there's where we found NPR's Anthony Kuhn. Anthony, welcome to the program once again. ANTHONY KUHN: Good morning, Steve. INSKEEP: ...

Africa’s paradox is obscene. A continent endowed with natural resources worth trillions of dollars remains ensnared in poverty.From sprawling communal lands to glittering diamond fields, Africans are ...

GT Igwe Chrisent said Africa must erase poverty and help people into the middle class to drive faster blockchain technology adoption. Many people have called for Nigeria and Africa to incorporate ...

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