Africa Renewal is a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments. We cover the challenges the continent faces and the solutions to these by ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...

argues that broadening people’s access to jobs and public services represents one of Africa’s best prospects for accelerating poverty reduction and maps out a framework that can help economies remove ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...