Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to millions of people. The "Million ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to mapping poverty that could help policymakers identify the neediest people in ...

Africa had no billionaires. Today it has 23 whose combined wealth has soared by 56% in just the past five years, reaching a staggering $112.6 billion.Africa's richest 5% hold nearly $4 trillion in ...

Developing a map of African countries’ water poverty levels offers a transparent analysis for policymakers, governments and organisations that deal with water issues.

Africa's geographic tragedy through the ages has been its isolation, which has been among the main causes of its poverty.

Poverty and inequality still blight much of the developing world, especially Africa. But considerable progress has been made in addressing both problems, and with more investment, they can be ...

AFRICA has been entrapped in a vicious cycle of extreme poverty and low economic growth per capita for decades, and its leadership is responsible. While other world regions have recorded poverty ...

Indeed, time has come that Africa’s children are not paraded as charity cases in Europe, a notion that only feeds into the long-distorted power relations between Africa and the West.

The Millennium Development Goals were meant to end extreme poverty As the United Nations (UN) General Assembly begins meeting in New York, little is being heard about the Millennium Development Goals.

The poverty maps for Sierra Leone and Uganda, two Sub-Saharan African countries with extreme poverty, were presented in May at the Web Conference (ACM) in Texas, US.

All 54 countries in Africa must consistently maintain a seven percent growth rate for the next 40-50 years to eradicate poverty and reach high-income status. This was contained in a speech ...